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Title: The Stainless Steel Leech Title Record # 58677
Author: Roger Zelazny
Date: 1963-04-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: pseudopod.org
Language: English
Synopsis: After mankind becomes extinct and the world remains populated only by robots, a freak robot who lives as a fugitive by sucking the power from other robots befriends the last remaining human vampire.
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1963 The Stainless Steel Leech [as by Harrison Denmark]
Year Language Title
1970ⓘTranslated by C. A. G. van den Broek
 Dutch De roestvrij stalen bloedzuiger [as by Harrison Denmark]
1971ⓘTranslated by Jorge Caetano Lopes da Silva.
 Portuguese A sanguessuga de aço inoxidável
1985ⓘTranslated by Jean Bailhache
 French La sangsue mécanique
1992ⓘTranslated by А. Лазарчук (A. Lazarchuk)
 Russian
Пиявка из нержавеющей стали?Piyavka iz nerzhaveyushchey stali
[as by
Р. Желязны?R. Zhelyazni
]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Amazing Stories, April 1963 1963-04-00 ed. Cele Goldsmith Ziff-Davis Publishing Company  
$0.35?$: 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 Virgil Finlay Checkmark
The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, No. 2 1966-06-00 ed. uncredited Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc.  
$0.50?$: US dollar
 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 Alex Schomburg Checkmark
De beste sci-fi uit Amazing & Fantastic 1970-06-00 ed. Aart C. Prins Bruna (Zwarte beertjes #1334) 90-229-1334-1
ƒ2.75?ƒ: Dutch guilder
 192
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 Dick Bruna Checkmark
Pórtico da Eternidade 1971-00-00 ed. Terry Carr Editorial Bruguera (
Coleção Urania?Colecao Urania
#28)		     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.
 anth  
New Worlds of Fantasy #3 1971-07-00 ed. Terry Carr Ace Books 0-441-57272-3 / 57272
$0.75?$: US dollar
 253
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 Kenneth Smith Checkmark
The Last Defender of Camelot 1980-12-00 Roger Zelazny Pocket Books 0-671-41773-8
$2.50?$: US dollar
 vii+
308
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 Carl Lundgren Checkmark
The Last Defender of Camelot 1980-12-00 Roger Zelazny Pocket Books 0-671-41773-8
C$2.95?C$: Canadian dollar
 308
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 Carl Lundgren Checkmark
The Last Defender of Camelot 1981-04-00 Roger Zelazny Pocket Books / SFBC 5908
$2.49?$: US dollar
 279
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Ken Barr Checkmark
The Last Defender of Camelot 1981-12-00 Roger Zelazny Underwood-Miller 0-934438-48-X
$30.00?$: US dollar
 301
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Alicia Austin Checkmark
Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Roger Zelazny 1985-12-17 Roger Zelazny Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Science Fiction #5217) 2-266-01650-4   378
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 Marcel Laverdet  
The Last Defender of Camelot 1986-01-00 Roger Zelazny Sphere 0-7221-9413-7
£2.50?£: UK pound
 246
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 Peter Goodfellow Checkmark
The Last Defender of Camelot 1988-10-00 Roger Zelazny Avon 0-380-70316-5
$3.50?$: US dollar
 308
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 James Warhola Checkmark
Империя мрака?Imperiya mraka
 1992-00-00 ed. uncredited
Сибирская Речь?Sibirskaya Rech'
(
Армагеддон?Armageddon
)		 5-87251-001-2   544
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth
М. Шараев?M. Sharaev
  
Tomorrow Sucks 1994-10-00 ed. Greg Cox, T. K. F. Weisskopf Baen Books 0-671-87626-0
$4.99?$: US dollar
 xii+
274
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 David Mattingly Checkmark
Virtuous Vampires 1996-09-00 ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Weinberg Barnes & Noble Books 0-7607-0174-1
$9.98?$: US dollar
 x+
470
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth FPG International Checkmark
Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction 1997-10-00 ed. Leonard Wolf Oxford University Press 0-19-511593-7
$25.00?$: US dollar
 379
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Gary A. Lippincott  
Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction 1999-09-00 ed. Leonard Wolf Oxford University Press 0-19-513250-5
$16.95?$: US dollar
 380
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 Gary A. Lippincott  
Threshold 2009-02-00 Roger Zelazny NESFA Press 978-1-886778-71-9
$29.00?$: US dollar
 575
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Michael Whelan Checkmark
Threshold 2009-09-00 Roger Zelazny NESFA Press 978-1-886778-71-9
$29.00?$: US dollar
 575
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Michael Whelan Checkmark
Tomorrow Sucks 2011-00-00 ed. Greg Cox, T. K. F. Weisskopf Fall River Press 978-1-4351-2680-0
$6.98?$: US dollar
 283
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Checkmark
Pseudopod, #484 2016-04-01 ed. Shawn Garrett, Alex Hofelich Escape Artists, Inc.  
$0.00?$: US dollar
  
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
 mag Checkmark
Threshold: Volume 1: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 2016-05-00 Roger Zelazny NESFA Press 978-1-886778-71-9
$29.00?$: US dollar
 575
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Michael Whelan Checkmark
The Last Defender of Camelot date unknown Roger Zelazny Pocket Books 0-671-44377-1
$2.95?$: US dollar
 308
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 Carl Lundgren Checkmark
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