Title: Ostrov pirátů

Title: Title Record # 1567723
Author: Josef Nesvadba
Date: 1957-12-20
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: Czech

Note: Second story of Nesvadba's debut coll Tarzanova smrt (1958); first published in Kultura weekly, issue 51-52, 20 Dec 1957.

Synopsis: Parable (traditionally counted among Nesvadba's SF): A pirate writes down how he discovered paradisical island full of gold and became better. His philantropic society tries to protect it from plundering by either Captain Flint or the English queen but natives resist being drafted for self-defense, a conflict with the saviours breaks out and they are killed. Embittered narrator returns to piracy, wondering "where I made my mistake".

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Year	Language	Title
1962^ⓘTranslated by Erich Bertleff	German	Die Pirateninsel
1962^ⓘTranslated by an uncredited hand See the Czech entry for synopsis and publication details. PDF of the FSF publication can be found on the web. English translator not listed, but likely Iris Urwin (Levitová) who translated his collections for Artia.	English	Pirate Island

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Die Erfindung gegen sich selbst	1962-00-00	Josef Nesvadba	Neff		157	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Willi Bahner
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1962	1962-02-00	ed. Robert P. Mills	Mercury Press, Inc.	$0.40^?$: US dollar	132	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	Emsh
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [UK], June 1962	1962-06-00	ed. uncredited	Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd	2/6^?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).	116	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	Emsh
Vampires Ltd.	1964-00-00	Josef Nesvadba	Artia		225	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	Miloš Hrbas^?Milos Hrbas

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