Title: The Killer Thing Title Record # 11561
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Date: 1967-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Other Titles

Variant Titles	Translations
Year Title 1967 The Killing Thing	Year Language Title 1971ⓘTranslated by Ingrid Rothmann; for the third German edition under the title 'Das Killerding' from 1996 the translation was revised and expanded by Marcel Bieger. German Das Killer-Ding 1996ⓘTranslated by Ingrid Rothmann and Marcel Bieger. The original translation by Ingrid Rothmann was revised and expanded for the new edition by Marcel Bieger. German Das Killerding

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
The Killer Thing	1967-00-00	Kate Wilhelm	Doubleday		$3.95?$: US dollar	190	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Al Nagy
The Killing Thing	1967-00-00	Kate Wilhelm	Herbert Jenkins (Herbert Jenkins SF)		18/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	174	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Killer Thing	1967-06-00	Kate Wilhelm	Doubleday / SFBC		$1.70?$: US dollar	190	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Al Nagy
The Killer Thing	1969-01-00	Kate Wilhelm	Dell	4496	$0.50?$: US dollar	156	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.	novel	Paul Lehr
The Killer Thing	1969-01-00	Kate Wilhelm	Dell	4496	C$0.50?C$: Canadian dollar	156	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.	novel	Paul Lehr
The Killing Thing	1969-05-00	Kate Wilhelm	Panther (Panther Science Fiction)	027777	£0.25?£: UK pound	143	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.	novel
The Killing Thing	1969-06-00	Kate Wilhelm	Panther	027777	£0.25?£: UK pound	143	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.	novel
The Killing Thing	1972-00-00	Kate Wilhelm	Panther	0-586-02777-7	£0.30?£: UK pound	143	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.	novel
The Killer Thing	2012-10-15	Kate Wilhelm	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-11997-0	£2.99?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel

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Reviews

• Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1968) in Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, March 1968
• Review by Poul Anderson (1968) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1968
• Review by uncredited (1969) in Cosmos: Science-Fantasy Review, June-July 1969