Title: Hunter, Come Home Title Record # 58489
Author: Richard McKenna
Date: 1963-03-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Other Titles

Variant Titles	Translations
Year Title 1963 Hunter, Come Home [as by Richard M. McKenna]	Year Language Title 1963ⓘTranslated by Charlotte Winheller German Der Wald der Phytos 1966ⓘTranslated by Enrico Cecchini Italian Cacciatore torna a casa 1967ⓘTranslated by Michel Deutsch French Chasseur, reviens 1989ⓘTranslated by Liana Mihailovici and Doina Hanu Romanian Vînătorule, întoarce-te acasă!?Vanatorule, intoarce-te acasa!

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nominations Below Cutoff	1964 Hugo	Best Short Fiction

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1963	1963-03-00	ed. Avram Davidson	Mercury Press, Inc.		$0.40?$: 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	Emsh
A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels	1964-00-00	ed. Damon Knight	Delacorte Press		$4.95?$: US dollar	379	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Thirteenth Series	1964-00-00	ed. Avram Davidson	Doubleday		$4.50?$: US dollar	255	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Thomas Chibbaro
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Thirteenth Series	1964-07-00	ed. Avram Davidson	Doubleday / SFBC		$1.20?$: US dollar	255	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Thomas Chibbaro
A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels	1965-00-00	ed. Damon Knight	Gollancz		21/-?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).	379	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels	1965-01-00	ed. Damon Knight	Dell	1158	$0.75?$: US dollar	447	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
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Thirteenth Series	1966-00-00	ed. Avram Davidson	Gollancz		21/-?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).	255	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 13th Series	1967-00-00	ed. Avram Davidson	Ace Books	H-26	$0.60?$: US dollar	256	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
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction Number 13	1968-00-00	ed. Avram Davidson	Panther	026185	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).	219	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
A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels	1968-00-00	ed. Damon Knight	Mayflower	1168-8	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).	[314]	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
A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels	1970-00-00	ed. Damon Knight	Mayflower	0-583-11163-7	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).		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	Josh Kirby
Casey Agonistes and Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories	1973-07-00	Richard McKenna	Harper & Row	0-06-012911-5	$5.95?$: US dollar	x+ 150	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Mark Rubin
Casey Agonistes, and Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories	1974-00-00	Richard McKenna	Gollancz	0-575-01766-X	£2.00?£: UK pound	x+ 150	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Casey Agonistes and Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories	1976-00-00	Richard McKenna	Pan Books	0-330-24825-1	£0.60?£: UK pound	159	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	Angus McKie
Casey Agonistes and Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories	1978-01-00	Richard McKenna	Ace Books	0-441-09227-6	$1.50?$: US dollar	212	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	David Schleinkofer
Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming	2001-12-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	St. Martin's Griffin	0-312-27570-6	$17.95?$: US dollar	xiii+ 446	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	Chesley Bonestell
Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming	2002-08-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	St. Martin's Griffin	0-312-70366-X	$15.95?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Chesley Bonestell
Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming	2011-04-01	ed. Gardner Dozois	St. Martin's Griffin	978-1-4299-6186-8	$7.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Chesley Bonestell
Casey Agonistes	2012-12-07	Richard M. McKenna	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-13207-8	£2.99?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction	2020-08-27	ed. Mike Ashley	British Library Publishing (British Library Science Fiction Classics)	978-0-7123-5357-1	£9.99?£: UK pound	352	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

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