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Title: People Minus X Title Record # 21908
Author: Raymond Z. Gallun
Date: 1957-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Dawn of the Demi-Gods
Series Number: 2
Language: English
Note: Expansion of "Dawn of the Demigods" (1954).
Synopsis: From the Simon & Schuster DJ flaps: "This story set in the future, is about an amazing scientific achievement with a small, fatal flaw. The achievement is one that many people have passionately wished for: a process that restores life and wholeness to innocent victims of disaster. The process is based partly on scientific records, partly on memories of those who knew the deceased. The restored people are exact physical duplicates of their former selves. However, slight changes in personality are noticeable. For example, a wife may remember her husband as being more affectionate then he really was - in which case, of course, the wife is grateful for the change. Wives who remembers their husbands as surly ingrates at last get real cause for complaint. The lack of control over the personality factor is, from the point of view of pure science, a flaw, but not the fatal one. The serious trouble is that the restores people seem to lack a indefinable human quality - perhaps it is soul or a divine spark. Yet, they are physically and intellectually superior not only to their original incarnations but to their human creators as well. The artificial people gravitate toward one another, marry, reproduce. Their children are recognizable, in some uncanny way, as part of the human race. As the number of new people increases, the rest of the earths' population draws away from them in fear and hatred. Against this background, Ray Gallun unfolds a startling, exciting story of individuals on both sides of the conflict - among them the scientist who develops the process and is driven from the human community; the leader of the artificial people, a creature manufactured from folklore, and a young student who, in defense of humanity, sacrifices his own."
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Variant Titles Translations Translated Serializations
Year Title
2017 People Minus X [as by Raymond Gallun]
Year Language Title
1959Translated by Peter Th. Clemens
German Menschen minus X
1982Translated by Giovanna Cecchini
Italian Quando esplose Selene
Year Language Title
1958Translated by Stanis Marvell
Italian Quando esplose Selene (Complete Novel)

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
People Minus X 1957-00-00 Raymond Z. Gallun Simon & Schuster  
$3.00?$: US dollar
187
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Tony Palladino Checkmark
Lest We Forget Thee, Earth / People Minus X 1958-00-00 Raymond Z. Gallun, Calvin M. Knox Ace Books (Ace Double #D-291) D-291
$0.35?$: US dollar
126+
160
dos?Dos-a-dos or tete-beche formatted paperback books, such as Ace Doubles and Capra Press back-to-back books.
omni Ed Valigursky , Ed Emshwiller Checkmark
I Romanzi del Cosmo #16 1958-09-00 ed. L. J. Rapuzzi Ponzoni 16
Lit 150?Lit: Italian lira
144
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 Luigi Garonzi Checkmark
Menschen minus X 1959-00-00 Raymond Z. Gallun Dörnersche Verlagsgesellschaft  
DM 7.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
254
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Rolf Illert Checkmark
Menschen minus X 1960-09-02 Raymond Z. Gallun Moewig (Terra #134) 134
DM 0.60?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
64
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".
novel Johnny Bruck Checkmark
Menschen minus X 1968-10-25 Raymond Z. Gallun Moewig (Terra Nova #27) TN027
DM 0.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
65
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".
novel Karl Stephan Checkmark
Quando esplose Selene 1982-03-00 Raymond Z. Gallun Libra Editrice (I Classici della Fantascienza #67) 67
Lit 14,000?Lit: Italian lira
212
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Allison  
People Minus X 2015-09-27 Raymond Z. Gallun Project Gutenberg 50063
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
novel  
The 25th Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack 2015-10-01 Raymond Z. Gallun Wildside Press 978-1-4794-0748-4
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Robert Gibson Jones  
People Minus X 2015-11-30 Raymond Z. Gallun LibriVox  
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
novel  
People Minus X 2015-12-24 Raymond Z. Gallun Perennial Press (Amazing Sci-Fi Classics)  
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
novel  
People Minus X / The Savage Machine 2016-01-24 uncredited Armchair Fiction (Armchair Sci-Fi & Horror Double Novels #172) 978-1-61287-290-2 / D-172
$12.95?$: US dollar
224
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 Ed Emshwiller  
People Minus X 2017-03-24 Raymond Z. Gallun Audioliterature  
$6.82?$: US dollar
 
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
novel  
People Minus X 2017-06-06 Raymond Gallun Jovian Press 978-1-5472-1926-1
$6.99?$: US dollar
190
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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