Title: Imperial Earth

Title: Imperial Earth Title Record # 1732
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Date: 1975-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: The original UK cloth edition (ISBN 0575020113), subtitled "A Fantasy of Love & Discord", has 38 chapters & "Acknowledgments & Notes". The later US cloth edition adds a quote from Ernest Hemingway, has 43 chapters, drops the subtitle & expands the Acknowledgements & Notes. A later US paper edition also features an "Additional Note" about a possible biological error in the plot.

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Other Titles

Translations

Translated Serializations

Year	Language	Title
unknown^ⓘTranslated by José Saenz	Portuguese	Terra imperial [as by Arthur Clarke]
1977^ⓘTranslated by Thomas Schlück	German	Makenzie kehrt zur Erde heim
1977^ⓘTranslated by Georges H. Gallet	French	Terre, planète impériale^?Terre, planete imperiale
1977^ⓘTranslated by Yvonne Kraak	Dutch	Machtige aarde
1978^ⓘTranslated by Zoran Živković	Serbian	Matica Zemlja [as by Artur Klark]
1980^ⓘTranslated by Eurico Fonseca	Portuguese	Terra Imperial /1
1981^ⓘTranslated by Eurico da Fonseca as by Eurico Fonseca	Portuguese	Terra imperial /2
2011^ⓘTranslated by Beata Della Frattina	Italian	Terra imperiale

Year	Language	Title
1976^ⓘTranslated by Beata Della Frattina	Italian	Terra Imperiale (Complete Novel)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
6	1976 Locus	Best SF Novel
7	1977 Locus	Best SF Novel
Win	2001 Gaylactic Spectrum	Hall of Fame

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Imperial Earth: A Fantasy of Love and Discord	1975-09-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Gollancz	0-575-02011-3	£3.50^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Bruce Pennington
Imperial Earth	1976-01-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	0-15-144233-9	$7.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xii+ 303	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Paul Bacon
Urania #688	1976-01-18	ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini	Mondadori	688	Lit 600^?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999	208	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	Karel Thole
Imperial Earth	1976-04-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / SFBC	2049	$2.49^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	275	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Paul Bacon
Imperial Earth	1976-11-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Ballantine Books	0-345-25352-3	$1.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	305	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	Stanislaw Fernandes
Imperial Earth	1976-12-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Ballantine Books	0-345-25352-3	$1.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	305	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	Stanislaw Fernandes
Imperial Earth	1976-12-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-25352-3	$1.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	305	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	Stanislaw Fernandes
Imperial Earth	1977-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Pan Books	0-330-25004-3	£0.75^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	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
Imperial Earth	1977-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Pan Books	0-330-25004-3	£0.75^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	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
Imperial Earth	1977-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Pan Books	0-330-25004-3	£0.75^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	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
Makenzie kehrt zur Erde heim	1977-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Marion von Schröder^?Marion von Schroeder	3-547-71877-5	DM 29.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	268	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Gebhardt und Lorenz
Terre, planète impériale	1977-01-19	Arthur C. Clarke	Albin Michel (Albin Michel - Super+Fiction #1)	2-226-00435-1		307	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Bruce Pennington
Imperial Earth	1977-05-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Pan Books	0-330-25004-3	£0.80^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	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
Imperial Earth	1977-05-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-25352-3	$1.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	305	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	Stanislaw Fernandes
Machtige aarde	1977-06-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Bruna (Bruna SF #72)	90-229-9072-9		271	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	Karel Thole
Imperial Earth	1978-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Pan Books	0-330-25004-3	£0.80^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	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
Matica Zemlja	1978-00-00	Artur Klark	Jugoslavija (Kentaur)			228	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Vladimir Pajević^?Vladimir Pajevich Vladimir Pajevic
Odabrana dela Artura Klarka u šest knjiga	1978-00-00	Artur Klark	Jugoslavija (Kentaur)			175+ 221+ 207+ 231+ 197+ 228	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Chris Foss
Imperial Earth	1978-02-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-27615-9	$1.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	305	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	Stanislaw Fernandes
Terre, planète impériale	1978-12-20	Arthur C. Clarke	J'ai Lu (J'ai Lu - Science Fiction #904)	2-277-11904-0		315	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	Philippe Caza
Makenzie kehrt zur Erde heim	1979-05-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3645)	3-453-30558-2	DM 5.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	285	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	Tim White
Imperial Earth	1979-11-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-28915-3	$2.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	305	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	Stanislaw Fernandes
Makenzie kehrt zur Erde heim	1980-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3645)	3-453-30558-2	DM 5.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	286	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	Tim White
Terra Imperial /1	1980-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Livros do Brasil (Argonauta #281)			171	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	A. Pedro
Imperial Earth	1980-10-00	Arthur C. Clarke	G. K. Hall & Co.	0-8161-3037-X	$16.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	512	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Imperial Earth	1981-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Pan Books	0-330-25004-3	£1.50^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	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
Terra imperial /2	1981-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Livros do Brasil (Argonauta #282)			174	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	A. Pedro
Imperial Earth	1981-01-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-28915-3	$2.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	305	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	Stanislaw Fernandes
Imperial Earth	1983-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Pan Books	0-330-25004-3	£1.95^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	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
Imperial Earth	1984-02-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-31561-8	$2.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	305	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	Stanislaw Fernandes
Imperial Earth	1984-03-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-31561-8	$2.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	305	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
Makenzie kehrt zur Erde heim	1985-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3645)	3-453-30558-2	DM 6.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	286	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	Tim White
Matica Zemlja	1986-00-00	Artur Klark	Prosveta (Kentaur)			228	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Vladimir Pajević^?Vladimir Pajevich Vladimir Pajevic
Terre, planète impériale	1986-02-17	Arthur C. Clarke	J'ai Lu (J'ai Lu - Science Fiction #904)	2-277-11904-0		315	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	Philippe Caza
Imperial Earth	1987-09-12	Arthur C. Clarke	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-35250-5	$3.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		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
Imperial Earth	1988-09-00	Arthur C. Clarke	VGSF / Gollancz (VGSF Classics #27)	0-575-04316-4	£2.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	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
Imperial Earth	1991-03-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Bantam Spectra	0-553-28877-6	$4.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	342	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 Swendsen
Imperial Earth	1992-02-00	Arthur C. Clarke	VGSF / Gollancz	0-575-04316-4	£3.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	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	Terry Pastor
Imperial Earth	1993-06-00	Arthur C. Clarke	VGSF / Gollancz	0-575-04316-4		287	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
Imperial Earth	1995-03-00	Arthur C. Clarke	VGSF	0-575-04316-4	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	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	Terry Pastor
Imperial Earth	1997-04-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Vista	0-575-60158-2	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	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	Terry Pastor
Imperial Earth	1998-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Vista	0-575-60158-2	£5.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	287	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	Terry Pastor
Imperial Earth	2001-06-14	Arthur C. Clarke	Gollancz	1-85798-338-6	£6.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	288	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	Terry Pastor
Imperial Earth	2003-06-00	Arthur C. Clarke	ibooks	0-7434-5902-4	$12.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	303	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Kev Walker
Imperial Earth	2005-06-07	Arthur C. Clarke	ibooks	1-4165-0454-0	$6.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Terra imperiale	2011-01-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Mondadori (Urania Collezione #96)	96	€5.50^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	358	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	Franco Brambilla
Imperial Earth	2011-09-29	Arthur C. Clarke	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-12178-2	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Imperial Earth	2012-11-30	Arthur C. Clarke	RosettaBooks	978-0-7953-2558-8	$8.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Imperial Earth	2012-11-30	Arthur C. Clarke	RosettaBooks	978-0-7953-2557-1			ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Arthur C. Clarke Audiobook Collection	2022-04-07	Arthur C. Clarke	MotionAudiobooks		$44.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		audio MP3 DVD^?DVD with mp3-encoded audio tracks	omni
Imperial Earth	2022-09-27	Arthur C. Clarke	RosettaBooks	978-0-7953-0006-6	$18.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	216	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Imperial Earth	2023-02-16	Arthur C. Clarke	Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-1-4732-0142-2	£9.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	x+ 273	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Terra imperial	date unknown	Arthur Clarke	Nova Fronteira			283	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Peter Weston (1976) in Science Fiction Monthly, January 1976
Review by Paul Walker (1976) in Luna Monthly, #63, March 1976
Review by Jay Rich (1976) in Delap's F & SF Review, April 1976
Review by Richard E. Geis (1976) in Science Fiction Review, May 1976
Review by Hilary Bailey (1976) in Foundation, #10 June 1976
Review by Lester del Rey (1976) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1976
Review by Richard A. Lupoff [as by Richard Lupoff] (1976) in Algol, #26, Summer 1976
Review by Spider Robinson (1976) in Galaxy, November 1976
Review [Serbian] by
Zoran Živković^?Zoran Zivkovic
(1976) in Sirius, #5
Review by Charles N. Brown (1977) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1977
Review [French] by Marianne Leconte (1977) in Science-Fiction Magazine, #5
Review by Mike Dickinson (1977) in Nexus, #3
Review by Phil Stephensen-Payne [as by Philip Stephensen-Payne] (1977) in Paperback Parlour, June 1977
Review [Dutch] by Annemarie van Ewijck [as by Annemarie Kindt] (1977) in Holland-SF 1977, #4
Review [German] by uncredited (1978) in Perry Rhodan, #864: Demeters Flucht
Review [French] by Jean-Marc Ligny (1979) in Fiction, #301
Review [German] by uncredited (1982) in Reclams Science Fiction Führer
Review by Terry Broome (1989) in Paperback Inferno, #77
Review by Chris Amies (1992) in Vector 166
Review by Chris Hart (1992) in Paperback Inferno, #96
Review by Jo Walton (2010) in What Makes This Book So Great, (2014)
Review [French] by
Éric Jentile^?Eric Jentile
(2021) in Bifrost, #102