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Title: Six Cubed Plus One Title Record # 67240
Author: Douglas R. Mason
Date: 1966-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: According to the editor's foreword in ''New Writings in SF 7'', this story was dramatized as a one hour TV play by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Synopsis: Modifications to a cluster of computerized teaching machines at a school leads to the emergence of a sentience comprising the brains of the students logged in, with the powers to enforce its own survival.
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1966 Six Cubed Plus One [as by John Rankine]

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
New Writings in S.F.—7 1966-00-00 ed. John Carnell Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers GS7469
3/6?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).
190
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 Ken Randall Checkmark
New Writings in S-F 7 1966-00-00 ed. John Carnell Dennis Dobson (Dobson Science Fiction)  
16/-?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).
184
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Out of This World 8 1970-00-00 ed. Mably Owen, Amabel Williams-Ellis Blackie 0-216-88811-5
£1.10?£: UK pound
187
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Geoffrey La Gerche  
New Writings in SF 7 1971-08-00 ed. John Carnell Bantam Books S5998
$0.75?$: US dollar
vii+
168
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 McCall Johnston Checkmark
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