Title: The Cruel Equations
Title Record # 58548
Author: Robert Sheckley
Date: 1971-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Robert Sheckley
Date: 1971-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: A space explorer's life depends on his outsmarting the robot sentinel which is guarding his camp with inflexible attention to regulations.
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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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| Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? | 1971-12-00 | Robert Sheckley | Doubleday | 0-385-03495-4 | $4.95?$: US dollar |
191 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Margo Herr | |
| Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? | 1972-04-00 | Robert Sheckley | Doubleday / SFBC | 2649 | $1.49?$: US dollar |
vi+ 182 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Margo Herr |  |
| Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? | 1972-06-00 | Robert Sheckley | Gollancz (Gollancz SF Series (4)) | 0-575-01473-3 | £1.80?£: UK pound |
191 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
| Urania #604 | 1972-10-29 | ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini | Mondadori | 604 | Lit 350?Lit: Italian lira |
168 | 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 | Karel Thole | |
| Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? | 1973-03-00 | Robert Sheckley | Doubleday | 0-385-03495-4 | $4.95?$: US dollar |
191 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |
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Der grüne Jademond?Der gruene Jademond |
1973-05-00 | Robert Sheckley | Goldmann (Goldmann Science Fiction #0167) | 3-442-23167-1 | DM 3.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
155 | 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 | Morris Scott Dollens | |
| Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? | 1973-11-00 | Robert Sheckley | The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) | 1078 | 191 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |
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| The Same to You Doubled and Other Stories | 1974-03-00 | Robert Sheckley | Pan Books | 0-330-23988-0 | £0.35?£: UK pound |
172 | 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 | |
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| Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? | 1974-04-00 | Robert Sheckley | DAW Books (DAW Collectors #99) | 0-87997-106-1 / UQ1106 | $0.95?$: US dollar |
160 | 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 | Hans Arnold | |
| Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? | 1974-04-00 | Robert Sheckley | DAW Books / New American Library of Canada | UQ1106 | C$0.95?C$: Canadian dollar |
160 | 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 | Hans Arnold | |
| Le temps meurtrier / Et quand je vous fais ça, vous sentez quelque chose? | 1974-05-27 | Robert Sheckley | OPTA (Club du Livre d'Anticipation #49) | 2-7201-0001-3 | 444 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | |||
| Et quand je vous fais ça, vous sentez quelque chose ? | 1977-00-00 | Robert Sheckley | Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Science Fiction #7014) | 2-253-01805-8 | 222 | 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 | |
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| Teknikmagasinet, november 1983 | 1983-11-00 | ed. Editors of Teknikmagasinet | Gammaförlaget?Gammaforlaget |
skr 12.50?skr: Swedish krona (crown) |
A4?21 cm by 29.7 cm or 8.3" by 11.7" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines |
mag | ||||
| Machines That Kill | 1984-12-00 | ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Fred Saberhagen | Ace Books | 0-441-51358-1 | $2.75?$: US dollar |
326 | 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 | Walter Velez | |
| Tin Stars | 1986-07-00 | ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh | Signet / New American Library | 0-451-14395-7 / AE4395 | $3.95?$: US dollar |
351 | 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 | JAV | |
| Das zweite Robert Sheckley Buch | 1987-01-00 | Robert Sheckley | Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe (Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Special #24090) |
3-404-24090-1 | DM 10.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
720 | 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. |
omni | Tim White | |
| Das zweite Robert Sheckley Buch | 1988-09-00 | Robert Sheckley | Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe (Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Special #24090) |
3-404-24090-1 | DM 10.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
720 | 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. |
omni | Tim White | |
| The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley | 1991-09-00 | Robert Sheckley | Pulphouse Publishing | $150.00?$: US dollar |
331+ 380+ 360+ 275+ 344 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | |
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| The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Four | 1991-09-00 | Robert Sheckley | Pulphouse Publishing | 275 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
| Machines That Kill | 1992-05-00 | ed. Fred Saberhagen | Tor | 0-812-52059-9 | $3.50?$: US dollar |
341 | 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 | Maelo Cintron | |
| The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Four | 1992-07-00 | Robert Sheckley | Pulphouse Publishing | 1-56146-423-6 | $12.95?$: US dollar |
275 | 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 | ||
| Masters of Science Fiction: Robert Sheckley | 2022-02-00 | Robert Sheckley | Centipede Press (Masters of Science Fiction (Centipede Press)) | 978-1-61347-311-5 | $65.00?$: US dollar |
727 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Jim Keegan , Ruth Keegan | |