Title: Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair
Title Record # 49084
Author: Frederik Pohl
Date: 1983-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Frederik Pohl
Date: 1983-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: In the future, overpopulation is addressed by giving people lotteries where the losing prize is death.
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Awards
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| 3 | 1984 Locus | Best Short Story |
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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| The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1983 | 1983-10-00 | ed. Edward L. Ferman | Mercury Press, Inc. | $1.75?$: US dollar |
164 | 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 | Thomas Kidd |  |
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| The 1984 Annual World's Best SF | 1984-06-00 | ed. Arthur W. Saha, Donald A. Wollheim | DAW Books (DAW Collectors #581) | 0-87997-934-8 / UE1934 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
256 | 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 DiFate | |
| The 1984 Annual World's Best SF | 1984-06-00 | ed. Arthur W. Saha, Donald A. Wollheim | DAW Books / New American Library of Canada | 0-87997-934-8 / UE1934 | C$3.50?C$: Canadian dollar |
256 | 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 DiFate | |
| The 1984 Annual World's Best SF | 1984-08-00 | ed. Arthur W. Saha, Donald A. Wollheim | DAW Books / SFBC | 1783 | $3.98?$: US dollar |
ix+ 242 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Richard Powers | |
| Pohlstars | 1984-10-00 | Frederik Pohl | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-31545-6 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
x+ 257 |
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 | Rick Sternbach | |
| Pohlstars | 1984-10-00 | Frederik Pohl | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-31545-6 | C$3.75?C$: Canadian dollar |
x+ 257 |
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 | Rick Sternbach | |
| Pohlstars | 1986-01-00 | Frederik Pohl | Gollancz (Gollancz SF Series (4)) | 0-575-03718-0 | £8.95?£: UK pound |
x+ 203 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |
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| Pohlstars | 1990-11-00 | Frederik Pohl | VGSF | 0-575-04855-7 | £3.50?£: UK pound |
203 | 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 | The Image Bank | |
| Windy City Pulp Stories #4 | 2004-00-00 | Tom Roberts | Black Dog Books | 64 | ph?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications. |
non-fic | Tom Roberts | |
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| Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories | 2005-12-00 | Frederik Pohl | Tor (A Sci Fi Essential Book) | 0-312-87527-4 | $27.95?$: US dollar |
463 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Digital Art / Corbis | |
| Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories | 2006-01-00 | Frederik Pohl | Tor / SFBC | 1198278 | $13.99?$: US dollar |
463 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Digital Art / Corbis | |
| Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories | 2007-01-00 | Frederik Pohl | Orb | 0-765-30145-8 | $16.95?$: US dollar |
463 | 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. |
coll | Digital Art / Corbis | |
| Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories | 2007-01-23 | Frederik Pohl | Tor | 978-1-4668-2644-1 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll |