Title: The Peacock King
Title Record # 54021
Authors: Larry McCombs and Ted White
Date: 1965-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Authors: Larry McCombs and Ted White
Date: 1965-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: When hyperspace travel is discovered, it turns out to drive the travelers insane; so a pair of potential travelers are trained to withstand alterations in their perceived reality, in the hope that they will then be able to withstand whatever damaged the previous crew.
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Awards
| Place | Year and Award | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Nomination | 1966 Nebula | Short Story |
Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1965 | 1965-11-00 | ed. Joseph W. Ferman | Mercury Press, Inc. | $0.50?$: US dollar |
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 | Gray Morrow |  |
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| The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF | 2009-08-00 | ed. Mike Ashley | Running Press | 978-0-7624-3723-8 | $13.95?$: US dollar |
x+ 531 |
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 | joeroberts.co.uk | |
| The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF | 2009-08-00 | ed. Mike Ashley | Robinson | 978-1-84529-891-3 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
x+ 531 |
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 | Joe Roberts | |
| The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF | 2009-08-00 | ed. Mike Ashley | Robinson | 978-1-84901-254-6 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Joe Roberts |