Title: The Ballad of Beta-2
Title Record # 22672
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Date: 1965-00-00
Type: NOVEL
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Language: English
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Author: Samuel R. Delany
Date: 1965-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
User Rating: 6.67 (3 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
Current Tags: generation ship (1), orgasm (1), time stasis (1), court trial (1), mutants (1), computers (1), feet (1), academia (1), telepathy (1), anthropology (1), interstellar travel (1), novel within novella range (1), music (1), paranormal powers (1), teleportation (1), eugenics (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), interspecies sex (1), human-alien hybrid (1), mesons (1), higher intelligence (1) Add Tags
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Awards
| Place | Year and Award | Category |
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| Nomination | 1966 Nebula | Novella |
Publications
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Alpha Yes, Terra No! / The Ballad of Beta-2 | 1965-00-00 | Samuel R. Delany, Emil Petaja | Ace Books (Ace Double #M-121) | M-121 | $0.45?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
156+ 96 |
dos?Dos-a-dos or tete-beche formatted paperback books, such as Ace Doubles and Capra Press back-to-back books. |
omni | Jack Gaughan , Ed Valigursky |  |
| Galassia #122 | 1970-07-15 | ed. Vittorio Curtoni, Gianni Montanari | Casa Editrice La Tribuna | 122 | Lit 350?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999 |
154 | 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 | Ferruccio Alessandri | |
| The Ballad of Beta-2 | 1971-00-00 | Samuel R. Delany | Ace Books | 04722 | $0.60?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
124 | 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 | Kelly Freas | |
| The Ballad of Beta-2 / Empire Star | 1975-10-00 | Samuel R. Delany | Ace Books (Ace Double #20571) | 20571 | $1.25?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
124+ 114 |
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. |
omni | Davis Meltzer | |
| The Ballad of Beta-2 / Empire Star | 1977-08-00 | Samuel R. Delany | Sphere | 0-7221-2908-4 | £0.75?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
157 | 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. |
omni | Angus McKie | |
| The Ballad of Beta-2 | 1977-12-00 | Samuel R. Delany | Gregg Press | 0-8398-2393-2 | $8.00?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
x+ 124 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |
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| The Ballad of Beta-2 / Empire Star | 1978-00-00 | Samuel R. Delany | Robert Hale (Hale SF) | 0-7091-6755-5 | £3.75?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
176 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | Helen Hale | |
| La ballade de Bêta-2 suivi de Empire Star | 1980-00-00 | Samuel R. Delany | Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Science Fiction #7060) | 2-253-02574-7 | 223 | 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. |
omni |
Gérard Ruffin?Gerard Ruffin
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| The Ballad of Beta-2 | 1982-08-00 | Samuel R. Delany | Bantam Books | 0-553-20312-6 | $2.50?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
115+ [19] |
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 | Vincent Di Fate | |
| Die Ballade von Beta 2 | 1985-11-00 | Samuel R. Delany | Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe (Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Special #24076) |
3-404-24076-6 | DM 12.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999 |
381 | 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. |
omni | Oliviero Berni | |
| La ballade de Bêta-2 suivi de Empire Star | 1995-04-00 | Samuel R. Delany | Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Science Fiction #7060) | 2-253-02574-7 | 191 | 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. |
omni | Jackie Paternoster | ||
| Chants de l'espace | 2008-05-28 | Samuel R. Delany | Bragelonne | 978-2-35294-182-8 | 680 | 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 | Stephan Martiniere | ||
| The Ballad of Beta-2 | 2012-11-12 | Samuel R. Delany | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-11916-1 | £2.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
| A, B, C: Three Short Novels | 2015-07-00 | Samuel R. Delany | Vintage Books (Vintage Original) | 978-1-101-91142-6 | $16.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
xviii+ 472 |
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 | ||
| A, B, C: Three Short Novels | 2015-07-07 | Samuel R. Delany | Vintage Books | 978-1-101-91143-3 | $7.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
omni | |||
| Chants de l'espace | 2017-05-00 | Samuel R. Delany | Bragelonne (10 ans, 10 romans) | 979-10-281-0798-7 | €10.00?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR |
687 | 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 | Pascal Casolari | |
| The Ballad of Beta-2 | date unknown | Samuel R. Delany | Ace Books | 04722 | $0.60?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
124 | 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 | Kelly Freas | |
Reviews
- Review by Judith Merril (1965) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1965
- Review by L. J. Knapp (1976) in The Science Fiction Review Monthly, January 1976
- Review by Andrew Darlington (1977) in Vector 82
- Review by Charles N. Brown (1978) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July-August 1978
- Review by Judith Hanna (1982) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 6, Number 2
- Review by John Peel (2022) in Paperback Fantastic, Volume 1: Science Fiction