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Title: The Mother of Necessity

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Title: The Mother of Necessity Title Record # 56973
Author: Chad Oliver
Date: 1955-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Translations
Year Language Title
1965Translated by uncredited
German Das neue System
1986Translated by Michael Nagula.
German Das neue System

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Another Kind 1955-00-00 Chad Oliver Ballantine Books H-113
$2.00?$: US dollar
170
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Richard Powers Checkmark
Another Kind 1955-00-00 Chad Oliver Ballantine Books 113
$0.35?$: US dollar
170
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1962-06-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books AS 218
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1962-06-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books AS 218
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1962-06-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books AS 218
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1966-00-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books 01903
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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  
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1967-00-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books 01903
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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 Don Ivan Punchatz Checkmark
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1968-00-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books 01903
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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 Don Ivan Punchatz Checkmark
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1970-00-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books 01903
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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 Don Ivan Punchatz Checkmark
Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology 1972-00-00 ed. Willis E. McNelly, Leon E. Stover Goodyear Publishing 0-87620-003-X   viii+
387
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth B. Buerge Checkmark
Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology 1972-00-00 ed. Willis E. McNelly, Leon E. Stover Goodyear Publishing 0-87620-002-1   viii+
387
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 B. Buerge Checkmark
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1973-00-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books 01903
$1.25?$: US dollar
313
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 Don Ivan Punchatz  
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1978-00-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books 0-02-019030-1
$2.95?$: US dollar
313
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 Don Ivan Punchatz Checkmark
Science Fiction A to Z: A Dictionary of the Great S.F. Themes 1982-08-00 ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Houghton Mifflin 0-395-31285-X
$22.95?$: US dollar
xvii+
651
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
A Star Above It and Other Stories 2003-08-00 Chad Oliver NESFA Press 1-886778-45-0
$24.00?$: US dollar
473
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Jane Dennis Checkmark
A Star Above It and Other Stories 2015-07-30 Chad Oliver Gateway / Orion 978-0-575-12606-0
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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