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Title: The Gravity Business Title Record # 45880
Author: James E. Gunn
Date: 1956-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Synopsis: Four generations of men have been stranded on a planet. The grandfather of the family had invented a gravity drive but lost the family fortune. Now the entire family is looking for metals for other solar systems. One planet looks very promising, but when they land on it, their gravity drive stops working. There is one very strange looking alien on the planet, though.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1956 French La meilleure affaire du vieux pircuiteur
1970Translated by Hubert Straßl
German Das Gravitations-Problem
1977 French Une gravifique affaire

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1956 1956-01-00 ed. H. L. Gold Galaxy Publishing Corporation  
$0.35?$: US dollar
148
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".
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Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], No. 36 1956-03-00 ed. H. L. Gold Strato Publications  
2/-?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).
132
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".
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The Gravity Business 2015-09-06 James E. Gunn Project Gutenberg 49897
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The 11th Science Fiction Megapack 2016-01-28 ed. uncredited Wildside Press (Megapack) 978-1-4794-0820-7
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
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anth  
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