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Title: Unwillingly to School Title Record # 55651
Author: Pauline Ashwell
Date: 1958-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Lysistrata "Lizzie" Lee
Language: English
Synopsis: The daughter of a wealthy farmer on a mining planet inadvertently becomes a civilizing influence on the clientele of a notoriously rowdy tavern, which leads to enrolling in the university maintaining the institution as a laboratory for sociological research.
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Awards

Place Year and Award Category
Finalists 1959 Hugo Best Novelette

Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Astounding Science Fiction, January 1958 1958-01-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.35?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
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 Checkmark
Uncollected Stars 1986-02-00 ed. Piers Anthony, Martin H. Greenberg, Barry N. Malzberg, Charles G. Waugh Avon 0-380-89596-X
$3.50?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
vii+
312
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 Checkmark
Unwillingly to Earth 1992-08-00 Pauline Ashwell Tor 0-812-51929-9
$3.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
280
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 Boris Vallejo Checkmark
Unwillingly to Earth 1995-02-00 Pauline Ashwell Pan Books 0-330-34023-9
£?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP
288
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  
Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963) 2019-08-00 ed. uncredited Journey Press 978-1-951320-00-3
$14.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
[4]+
viii+
263
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 Frank Kelly Freas Checkmark
Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963) 2019-09-02 ed. uncredited Journey Press 978-1-951320-01-0
$5.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth Frank Kelly Freas  
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