Title: Telek
Title Record # 56006
Author: Jack Vance
Date: 1952-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: floating city (1), near future (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), telekinesis (1), revolution (1) Add Tags
Author: Jack Vance
Date: 1952-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: In a near future where telekinetics arose in the human race a couple of generations ago and their few thousand descendants are becoming dominant over the rest of humanity, a small underground struggles with both the means and the ethics of eliminating the entire group.
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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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| Astounding Science Fiction, January 1952 | 1952-01-00 | ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. | Street & Smith Publications, Inc. | $0.35?$: US dollar |
172 | 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 | Rogers |  |
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| Astounding Science Fiction, May 1952 (UK) | 1952-05-00 | ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. | Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd | 1/-?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). |
64 | pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75 |
mag | |||
| Homo Telek | 1966-11-08 | Jack Vance | Pabel (Utopia Zukunftsroman #512) | UZ512 | DM 0.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
61 | 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". |
chap | R. S. Lonati | |
| Eight Fantasms and Magics | 1969-10-00 | Jack Vance | Macmillan | 62151 | $5.95?$: US dollar |
288 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Anthony Sini | |
| Eight Fantasms and Magics | 1970-00-00 | Jack Vance | Collier Books | 02598 | $0.95?$: US dollar |
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 | Anthony Sini | |
| Great Short Novels of Science Fiction | 1970-07-00 | ed. Robert Silverberg | Ballantine Books | 0-345-01960-1 | $0.95?$: US dollar |
viii+ 373 |
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 | Donna Violetti | |
| Great Short Novels of Science Fiction | 1970-07-00 | ed. Robert Silverberg | Ballantine Books | 0-345-01960-1 | C$0.95?C$: Canadian dollar |
viii+ 373 |
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 | Donna Violetti | |
| Great Short Novels of Science Fiction | 1971-12-00 | ed. Robert Silverberg | Ballantine Books (UK) | 0-345-01960-1 | £0.35?£: UK pound |
viii+ 373 |
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 | Chris Foss | |
| Telek | 1972-11-00 | Jack Vance | Meulenhoff (M=SF #58) | 90-290-0325-1 | 296 | 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 | Frans Erkelens | |
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| L'ultimo castello | 1975-06-00 | Jack Vance | Fanucci Editore (Biblioteca di Fantascienza #14) | Lit 3,000?Lit: Italian lira |
262 | 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 | Glauco Cartocci | ||
| Telek | 1977-09-00 | Jack Vance | Meulenhoff (M=SF #58) | 90-290-0325-1 | 296 | 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 | Michael Whelan | |
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| L'ultimo castello | 1990-05-00 | Jack Vance | Fanucci Editore (Biblioteca di Fantascienza #19) | 88-347-0275-1 | Lit 15,000?Lit: Italian lira |
250 | 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 | Marco Sani | |
| When the Five Moons Rise | 1992-09-00 | Jack Vance | Underwood-Miller | 0-88733-145-9 | $29.95?$: US dollar |
252 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Vincent Di Fate | |
| When the Five Moons Rise | 1992-09-00 | Jack Vance | Underwood-Miller | 0-88733-145-9 | 252 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
| Telek | 1992-10-00 | Jack Vance | Meulenhoff (*M) | 90-290-8219-4 | 210 | 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 | Mick van Houten | |
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| The World-Thinker and Other Stories | 2005-00-00 | Jack Vance | Vance Integral Edition (Vance Integral Edition #2) | 0-9712375-1-4 |
[viii]+ 381 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |
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| Monstres sur orbite | 2005-05-00 | Jack Vance | Le Bélial'?Le Belial' |
2-84344-066-1 | €20.00?€: Euro |
308 | 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 | Nicolas Fructus | |
| The World-Thinker and Other Stories | 2011-11-24 | Jack Vance | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-10987-2 | £2.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
| The World-Thinker and Other Stories | 2012-04-17 | Jack Vance | Spatterlight Press (Vance Digital Edition #1) | 978-1-61947-000-2 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | Tais Teng | ||
| Minding the Stars: The Early Jack Vance Volume Four | 2014-03-31 | Jack Vance | Subterranean Press | 978-1-59606-645-8 | $45.00?$: US dollar |
367 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Tom Kidd | |
| Minding the Stars: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Four | 2015-03-10 | Jack Vance | Subterranean Press | 978-1-59606-735-6 | $4.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
| The World-Thinker and Other Stories | 2017-10-18 | Jack Vance | Spatterlight Press (Signature Series #1) | 978-1-61947-148-1 | $15.99?$: US dollar |
330 | 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 | Howard Kistler | |
| De wereldbedenker en andere verhalen | 2018-11-06 | Jack Vance | Spatterlight Press (Het verzameld werk van Jack Vance #1) | 978-1-61947-231-0 | €17.99?€: Euro |
342 | 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 | Howard Kistler | |
| De wereldbedenker en andere verhalen | 2019-02-19 | Jack Vance | Spatterlight Press (Het verzameld werk van Jack Vance #1) | 978-1-61947-170-2 | €5.99?€: Euro |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | Howard Kistler | ||
| Nouvelles - tome 1: 1945-1954 | 2019-02-28 | Jack Vance | Le Bélial'?Le Belial' (Kvasar #13) |
978-2-84344-945-1 | €34.00?€: Euro |
1053 | 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 | Guillaume Sorel |