Title: Planet of No Return

Title: Planet of No Return Title Record # 5335
Author: Poul Anderson
Date: 1956-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: An estimation of the word count puts their number at around 33,000: thus, this is a novella by ISFDB standard.

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Year	Title
1978^ⓘMagazine title for "Planet of No Return". An estimation of the word count puts their number at around 33,000: thus, this is a novella by ISFDB standard. The copyright is assigned for the year 1956 to Ace Books, Inc.	Question and Answer

Year	Language	Title
1958^ⓘTranslated by by an unknown hand	German	Planet ohne Wiederkehr
1975^ⓘTranslated by H. P. Lehnert	German	Welt ohne Wiederkehr
1977^ⓘTranslated by Tony Westermayr	German	Planet ohne Wiederkehr

Year	Title
1954	Question and Answer (Part 1 of 2)
1954	Question and Answer (Part 2 of 2)

Year	Language	Title
1961	French	Question sans réponse (part 1 of 2)^?Question sans reponse (part 1 of 2)
1961	French	Question sans réponse (part 2 of 2)^?Question sans reponse (part 2 of 2)

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Astounding Science Fiction, June 1954	1954-06-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Street & Smith Publications, Inc.		$0.35^?$: 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	Freas
Astounding Science Fiction, July 1954	1954-07-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Street & Smith Publications, Inc.		$0.35^?$: 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	Alejandro
Astounding Science Fiction, November 1954 (UK)	1954-11-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd		1/6^?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).	128	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	Frank Kelly Freas
Astounding Science Fiction, December 1954 (UK)	1954-12-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd		1/6^?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".	mag	Alejandro
Planet of No Return / Star Guard	1956-00-00	Poul Anderson, Andre Norton	Ace Books (Ace Double #D-199)	D-199	$0.35^?$: US dollar	105+ 214	dos^?Dos-a-dos or tete-beche formatted paperback books, such as Ace Doubles and Capra Press back-to-back books.	omni	Ed Valigursky , Ed Emshwiller
Planet of No Return	1966-04-00	Poul Anderson	Dennis Dobson	0-234-77988-8	13/6^?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).	105	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap	Richard Weaver
Planet of No Return	1971-01-00	Poul Anderson	Tandem	0-426-05223-4	5/-^?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).	128	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.	chap
The Worlds of Poul Anderson	1974-01-00	Poul Anderson	Ace Books	91055	$1.25^?$: US dollar	105+ 108+ 125	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	Joseph Lombardero
Planet of No Return	1978-00-00	Poul Anderson	Universal	0-426-05223-4	£0.60^?£: UK pound	128	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.	chap	Les Edwards
Question and Answer	1978-02-01	Poul Anderson	Ace Books	0-441-69770-4	$1.50^?$: US dollar	[6]+ 147	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.	chap	Michael Whelan
Two Worlds	1978-04-00	Poul Anderson	Gregg Press (The Worlds of Poul Anderson #VII)	0-8398-2429-7	$9.95^?$: US dollar	237	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Jack Gaughan
Question and Answer	2011-09-29	Poul Anderson	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-10907-0	£2.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	chap
Question and Answer	2017-01-00	Poul Anderson	NESFA Press (The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson #7)	978-1-61037-313-5	$32.00^?$: US dollar	550	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Vincent Di Fate
The Worlds of Poul Anderson	date unknown	Poul Anderson	Ace Books	91056	$1.95^?$: US dollar	105+ 108+ 125	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	Joseph Lombardero

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Reviews

Review by Anthony Boucher (1957) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1957
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1957) in Astounding Science Fiction, August 1957 , reprinted in:
Astounding Science Fiction, December 1957 (UK) (1957)
Review by Charles N. Brown (1978) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 1978
Review by Paul Di Filippo (2017) in Locus Online, (2018)