Title: Castaways' World

Title: Castaways' World Title Record # 3280
Author: John Brunner
Date: 1963-11-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Zarathustra Refugee Planets
Series Number: 2
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: About 45,000 words according to this archived SFF.net page. The version published as "Polymath" in 1974 was expanded to about 62,000 words.

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Year	Title
1974^ⓘ Expansion of the novel Castaway's World (1963), which was about 45,000 words, "Polymath" is about 62,000 words.	Polymath

Year	Language	Title
1966^ⓘTranslated by Birgit Bohusch	German	Flucht vor der Nova
1975^ⓘTranslated by Lore Straßl	German	Der Kolonisator
1976^ⓘTranslated by A. Min	Dutch	De planetenbouwers
1977^ⓘTranslated by Odile Sabathé-Ricklin	French	Polymath
1983^ⓘTranslated by Fernando Mendonça from 'Polymath'	Portuguese	O enciclopedista
1983^ⓘTranslated by Barbara Heidkamp	German	Der Kolonisator
1983^ⓘTranslated by Barbara Heidkamp for the 1983 publication with Bastei Lübbe	German	Polymath

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Castaways' World / The Rites of Ohe	1963-11-00	John Brunner	Ace Books (Ace Double #F-242)	F-242	$0.40^?$: US dollar	127+ 129	dos^?Dos-a-dos or tete-beche formatted paperback books, such as Ace Doubles and Capra Press back-to-back books.	omni	Ed Emshwiller , Ed Valigursky
Flucht vor der Nova	1966-03-11	John Brunner	Moewig (Terra #445)	445	DM 0.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	66	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
Polymath	1974-01-00	John Brunner	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #85)	0-87997-089-8 / UQ1089	$0.95^?$: 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	Vincent DiFate
Polymath	1974-01-00	John Brunner	DAW Books / New American Library of Canada	UQ1089	C$0.95^?C$: 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	Vincent DiFate
Der Kolonisator	1975-00-00	John Brunner	Bastei Lübbe^?Bastei Luebbe ( Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Taschenbuch^?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Taschenbuch #21063)	3-404-00201-6	DM 2.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	142	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	Eddie Jones
De planetenbouwers	1976-00-00	John Brunner	Ridderhof (Ridderhof SF #27)	90-308-0365-7	ƒ8.90^?ƒ: Dutch guilder	208	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	Eddie Jones
Polymath	1976-01-00	John Brunner	DAW Books	UY1217	$1.25^?$: 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	Josh Kirby
Polymath	1976-01-00	John Brunner	DAW Books / New American Library of Canada	UY1217	C$1.25^?C$: 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	Josh Kirby
Polymath	1977-10-25	John Brunner	Presses de la Cité^?Presses de la Cite ( Presses de la Cité - Futurama^?Presses de la Cite - Futurama #11)	2-258-00320-2		1992	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	Serge Clerc
Polymath	1979-04-00	John Brunner	DAW Books	0-87997-458-3 / UW1458	$1.50^?$: 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	Attila Hejja
Polymath	1979-04-00	John Brunner	DAW Books / New American Library of Canada	0-87997-458-3 / UW1458	C$1.75^?C$: 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	Attila Hejja
Polymath	1982-09-00	John Brunner	DAW Books	0-87997-766-3 / UE1766	$2.25^?$: 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	Oliviero Berni
Polymath	1982-09-00	John Brunner	DAW Books / New American Library of Canada	0-87997-766-3 / UE1766	C$2.50^?C$: 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	Oliviero Berni
O enciclopedista	1983-00-00	John Brunner	Europress (BolsoNoite #13)	972-559-028-7		194	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	Tomás Pereira^?Tomas Pereira
Der Kolonisator	1983-12-00	John Brunner	Bastei Lübbe^?Bastei Luebbe ( Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Abenteuer^?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Abenteuer #23027)	3-404-23027-2	DM 4.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	206	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	Roy Virgo
Victims of the Nova	1989-03-00	John Brunner	Arrow Books (Venture SF #22)	0-09-962440-0	£3.99^?£: UK pound	473	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	Eddie Jones
Der Kolonisator / Brunos tiefgekühlte Tage	1992-00-00	Anders Bodelsen, John Brunner	Das Beste (Unterwegs in die Welt von Morgen #131)	3-87070-435-7	DM 29.90^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	351	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Victor Stabin
De planetenbouwers / Mijn lief ligt diep gevroren	1993-00-00	Anders Bodelsen, John Brunner	Reader's Digest N.V. (Op weg naar de wereld van morgen #1)	90-6407-328-7		351	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Peter Atanasow
Die Opfer der Nova	1993-01-00	John Brunner	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4341)	3-453-06213-2	DM 15.00^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	586	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	Jan Heinecke
Polymath	2011-09-00	John Brunner	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-10163-0	£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 (1964) in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, June 1964
Review [German] by Alfred Vejchar (1966) in Im Para-Dschungel
Review by Spider Robinson (1976) in Galaxy, July 1976
Review by Elizabeth Cummins [as by Elizabeth Cummins Cogell] (1976) in Delap's F & SF Review, August 1976