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Title: Steam Bird Title Record # 1109
Author: Hilbert Schenck
Date: 1984-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: A group of steam and/or train fanciers from the state of Maine wish to launch a huge nuclear-steam-turbine powered airplane, and have to convince government officials all the way up to the President of the United States of the advantages of the project.
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Serializations
Year Title
1984 Steam Bird (Part 1 of 2)
1984 Steam Bird (Part 2 of 2)

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
28 1985 Locus Best SF Novel

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1984 1984-04-00 ed. Edward L. Ferman Mercury Press, Inc.  
$1.75?$: US dollar
164
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Barclay Shaw Checkmark
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1984 1984-05-00 ed. Edward L. Ferman Mercury Press, Inc.  
$1.75?$: US dollar
164
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag David Hardy Checkmark
Steam Bird 1988-08-00 Hilbert Schenck Tor 0-812-55400-0
$3.50?$: US dollar
213
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Vincent Di Fate Checkmark
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