Title: The Big Flash
Title Record # 41610
Author: Norman Spinrad
Date: 1969-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Author: Norman Spinrad
Date: 1969-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
User Rating: 4.33 (3 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
Current Tags: science fiction (1), military sf (1), Rock (1), nuclear weapons (1), Media (1), horror (1), television (1), mind control (1), war (1), apocalypse (1), atomic bomb (1), satire (1) Add Tags
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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Nomination | 1970 Nebula | Novelette |
Publications
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Orbit 5 | 1969-09-00 | ed. Damon Knight | G. P. Putnam's Sons | $4.95?$: US dollar |
222 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Paul Lehr | ||
Orbit 5 | 1969-10-00 | ed. Damon Knight | G. P. Putnam's Sons / SFBC | 2007 | 224 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Paul Lehr | ||
Orbit 5 | 1969-12-00 | ed. Damon Knight | Berkley Medallion | 0-425-01778-8 / S1778 | $0.75?$: US dollar |
222 | 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. |
anth | Paul Lehr | |
World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 | 1970-00-00 | ed. Terry Carr, Donald A. Wollheim | Ace Books (World's Best Science Fiction #6) | 91357 | $0.95?$: US dollar |
349 | 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. |
anth | John Schoenherr | |
World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 | 1970-09-00 | ed. Terry Carr, Donald A. Wollheim | Ace Books / SFBC (World's Best Science Fiction #6) | 2407 | $1.98?$: US dollar |
viii+ 339 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 | 1970-10-00 | ed. Terry Carr, Donald A. Wollheim | Gollancz | 0-575-00590-4 | 42/-?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). |
352 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
Orbit 5 | 1970-11-00 | ed. Damon Knight | Rapp & Whiting / Andre Deutsch | 0-85391-174-6 | 28/-?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). |
222 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth | 1971-04-00 | ed. Rob Sauer | Ballantine Books | 0-345-02185-1 | $0.95?$: US dollar |
xix+ 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. |
anth | ||
Man Unwept: Visions from the Inner Eye | 1974-00-00 | ed. Stanley J. Cook, Stephen V. Whaley | McGraw-Hill | 0-07-069481-8 |
xii+ [2]+ 350 |
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. |
anth | Edvard Munch | ||
Social Problems Through Science Fiction | 1975-03-00 | ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, John W. Milstead, Joseph D. Olander, Patricia Warrick | St. Martin's Press | $4.95?$: US dollar |
xv+ 356 |
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. |
anth | |||
No Direction Home | 1975-05-00 | Norman Spinrad | Pocket Books | 0-671-78887-6 | $1.25?$: US dollar |
238 | 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 | Charles Moll | |
No Direction Home | 1975-05-00 | Norman Spinrad | Pocket Books | 0-671-78887-6 | C$1.25?C$: Canadian dollar |
238 | 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 | Charles Moll | |
Best Stories from Orbit, Volumes 1-10 | 1975-06-00 | ed. Damon Knight | Berkley/Putnam | 0-399-11472-6 | $7.95?$: US dollar |
373 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Paul Lehr | |
No Direction Home | 1976-03-00 | Norman Spinrad | Millington | 0-86000-054-0 | £3.50?£: UK pound |
238 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | W. F. Phillipps | |
The Best from Orbit Volumes 1-10 | 1976-07-00 | ed. Damon Knight | Berkley Medallion | 0-425-03161-6 / T3161 | $1.95?$: US dollar |
404 | 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. |
anth | Paul Lehr | |
No Direction Home | 1977-10-00 | Norman Spinrad | Fontana | 0-00-614811-5 | £0.75?£: UK pound |
190 | 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 | Alun Hood | |
The Star-Spangled Future | 1979-07-00 | Norman Spinrad | Ace Books | 0-441-78475-5 | $2.25?$: US dollar |
401 | 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 | Vincent De Fate | |
From Heinlein to Here | 1979-12-00 | ed. James Gunn | Mentor / New American Library | 0-451-61784-3 / ME1784 | $2.75?$: US dollar |
xi+ 656 |
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. |
anth | Paul Stinson | |
Countdown to Midnight: Twelve Great Stories About Nuclear War | 1984-12-00 | ed. H. Bruce Franklin | DAW Books (DAW Collectors #608) | 0-87997-983-6 / UE1983 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
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. |
anth | Vincent Di Fate | |
Countdown to Midnight: Twelve Great Stories About Nuclear War | 1984-12-00 | ed. H. Bruce Franklin | DAW Books / New American Library of Canada | 0-87997-983-6 / UE1893 | C$3.50?C$: Canadian dollar |
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. |
anth | Vincent Di Fate | |
Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead | 1985-10-00 | ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Walter M. Miller, Jr. | Donald I. Fine | 0-917657-55-1 | $18.95?$: US dollar |
ix+ 387 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Loretta Trezzo | |
Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead | 1986-10-00 | ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Walter M. Miller, Jr. | Primus / Donald I. Fine | 0-917657-96-9 | $3.95?$: US dollar |
387 | 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. |
anth | Loretta Trezzo | |
Beyond Armageddon: Survivors of the Megawar | 1987-00-00 | ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Walter M. Miller, Jr. | Robinson | 0-948164-43-3 | £3.95?£: UK pound |
386 | 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. |
anth | Jim Burns | |
Nuclear War | 1988-07-00 | ed. Gregory Benford, Martin Harry Greenberg | Ace Books | 0-441-58640-6 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
231 | 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. |
anth | Walter Velez | |
From Heinlein to Here | 1996-07-00 | ed. James Gunn | Borealis / White Wolf Publishing | 1-56504-821-0 / WW 11089 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
xxvii+ 529 |
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. |
anth | Michael Scott Cohen | |
From Heinlein to Here | 2002-03-00 | ed. James Gunn | Scarecrow Press | 0-8108-4245-9 | $32.50?$: US dollar |
xxxi+ 565 |
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. |
anth | Hallie Gladden | |
Beyond Armageddon | 2006-05-00 | ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Walter M. Miller, Jr. | Bison Books | 0-8032-8315-6 | $16.95?$: US dollar |
xxvi+ 387 |
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. |
anth | R. W. Boeche | |
The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse | 2010-07-08 | ed. Martin H. Greenberg | Skyhorse Publishing | 978-1-60239-967-9 | $12.95?$: US dollar |
vi+ 328 |
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. |
anth | ||
No Direction Home | 2011-09-29 | Norman Spinrad | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-11734-1 | £2.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
The Star-Spangled Future | 2011-09-29 | Norman Spinrad | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-11735-8 | £2.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
Rock on: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy | 2012-09-25 | ed. Paula Guran | Prime Books | 978-1-60701-315-0 | $15.95?$: US dollar |
401 | 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. |
anth | Scott Grimando | |
Rock on: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy | 2012-09-25 | ed. Paula Guran | Prime Books | 978-1-60701-374-7 | ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Scott Grimando | |||
Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and the Modern War | 2016-07-12 | ed. Douglas Lain | Night Shade Books | 978-1-59780-852-1 | $15.99?$: US dollar |
361 | 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. |
anth | Richie Pope | |
Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and the Modern War | 2016-07-12 | ed. Douglas Lain | Night Shade Books | 978-1-59780-861-3 | $15.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Richie Pope | ||
Deserts of Fire: Speculative Fiction and the Modern War | 2020-07-21 | ed. Douglas Lain | Gateway / Orion | 978-1-4732-3192-4 | £4.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | |||
From Heinlein to Here | date unknown | ed. James Gunn | Mentor | 0-451-62427-0 | $4.95?$: US dollar |
xi+ 656 |
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. |
anth | Paul Stinson | |
From Heinlein to Here | date unknown | ed. James Gunn | Mentor / New American Library | 0-451-61910-2 | $3.50?$: US dollar |
xi+ 656 |
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. |
anth | Paul Stinson | |
Nuclear War | date unknown | ed. Gregory Benford, Martin Harry Greenberg | Ace Books | 0-441-58640-6 | $3.50?$: US dollar |
231 | 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. |
anth | Walter Velez | |
The Best from Orbit Volumes 1-10 | date unknown | ed. Damon Knight | Berkley Medallion | 0-425-03161-6 | $1.95?$: US dollar |
404 | 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. |
anth | Paul Lehr |