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  • Publication: The True GamePublication Record # 297337
  • Author: Sheri S. Tepper
  • Date: 1985-10-00
  • Catalog ID: 06319
  • Publisher: Nelson Doubleday / SFBC
  • Price:
    $7.98?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 470
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: OMNIBUS
  • Cover: The True Game by Walter Velez
  • Notes:
    • Gutter code "P033" on page 468 indicates a printing date of August 1985.
    • SFBC # "06319" on the back cover.
    • The price and publication date are not stated. Price and month from Locus1.
    • The cover art is credited on the back jacket flap.
    • The copyright page has "Published by arrangement with The Berkley Publishing Group".
    • The "A Few Helpful Notes" essay is listed in the table of contents. It contains [465] "A Few Helpful Notes" title page. [466] (blank) [467] "The Gamesmen of Barish" which is a table listing characters and their talents. [468] "Notes on the Fauna of the World of the True Game" which is an essay.  469  continuation of the "Notes on the Fauna..." essay.  470  "Native Peoples" explains the Shadowpeople and Eesties which are the peoples known to occupy the lands around the area of the True Game.
    • There is some uncredited interior artwork:
      • A map on the inside the front cover and the front endpaper captioned "Lands of the True Game -------- From Schooltown South and West"
      • A map on the rear end paper and the inside of the back cover captioned "Lands of the True Game -------- From Schooltown North and West"
      • A chart on page [vii] (not numbered) titled "The Order of Descent by Lineage"
      • Page 362 and 363 has a table titled "A Sample of the Indexing System used by Windlow". It's between chapters 4 and 5.
  • External IDs:
Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page
Omnibus Title: The True Game • [True Game] • (1985) • omnibus by Sheri S. Tepper

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Locus1 Verified Bluesman 2009-09-06 17:25:10
Miller/Contento N/A Bluesman 2009-09-06 17:25:10
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