Title: The Man from Earth

Title: The Man from Earth Title Record # 71426
Author: John Wyndham
Date: 1934-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English

Note: Wonder Stories, September 1934, illustrated by Frank R. Paul. As The Man from Beyond.

Synopsis: Available on page 178, Bleiler (Gernsback).

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Year	Title
1934	The Man from Beyond [as by John Beynon Harris]
1940	The Man from Earth [as by John B. Harris]
1964	The Man from Beyond
1973	The Man from Earth [as by John Beynon Harris]

Year	Language	Title
1976^ⓘTranslated by Hans van Assumburg	Dutch	De man die van de aarde kwam
1976^ⓘTranslated by Mary Rosenthal	French	Le survivant
1976^ⓘTranslated by Heinz Plehn (as H. P. Lehnert)	German	Der Mann aus der Vergangenheit

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Wonder Stories, September 1934	1934-09-00	ed. Hugo Gernsback	Continental Publications		$0.25^?$: US dollar	132	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	mag	Paul
Tales of Wonder, #10	1940-03-00	ed. Walter H. Gillings	World's Work		1/-^?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).	100	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	mag	W. J. Roberts
Fantastic Story Quarterly, Summer 1950	1950-07-00	ed. Sam Merwin, Jr.	Best Books, Inc.		$0.25^?$: US dollar	164	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	mag	Earle Bergey
Alien Worlds	1964-09-00	ed. Roger Elwood	Paperback Library	52-320	$0.50^?$: US dollar	176	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	John Schoenherr
Alien Worlds	1964-09-00	ed. Roger Elwood	Paperback Library	52-320	C$0.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	176	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	John Schoenherr
Alien Worlds	1968-04-00	ed. Roger Elwood	Paperback Library	53-667	$0.60^?$: US dollar	176	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
Alien Worlds	1968-04-00	ed. Roger Elwood	Paperback Library	53-667	C$0.60^?C$: Canadian dollar	176	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 of John Wyndham	1973-00-00	John Wyndham	Sphere	0-7221-9369-6	£0.40^?£: UK pound	318	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	Patrick Woodroffe
Sleepers of Mars	1973-03-00	John Beynon Harris	Coronet	0-340-17326-2	£0.30^?£: UK pound	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	Chris Foss
Sleepers of Mars	1973-05-00	John Beynon Harris	Coronet	0-340-17326-2	£0.30^?£: UK pound	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	Chris Foss
Sleepers of Mars	1974-00-00	John Beynon Harris	Coronet	0-340-17326-2		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
The Best of John Wyndham	1974-11-00	John Wyndham	Sphere	0-7221-9369-6	£0.40^?£: UK pound	318	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	Patrick Woodroffe
The Best of John Wyndham 1932-1949	1975-00-00	John Wyndham	Sphere	0-7221-9373-4	£0.55^?£: UK pound	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	Patrick Woodroffe
The Man from Beyond and Other Stories	1975-03-00	John Wyndham	Michael Joseph	0-7181-1320-9	£3.50^?£: UK pound	283	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
De werelden van Barter	1976-00-00	John Wyndham	Centripress (Centripress SF)			221	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
La machine perdue	1976-00-00	John Wyndham	Librairie des Champs-Élysées^?Librairie des Champs-Elysees (Le Masque - Science Fiction #37)	2-7024-0469-3		252	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	Gray Morrow
Der Traumplanet	1976-03-23	ed. Roger Elwood	Pabel-Moewig (Terra Astra #240)	TA240	DM 1.50^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	65	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".	anth	Eddie Jones
Sleepers of Mars	1977-00-00	John Beynon Harris	Coronet Books	0-340-17326-2	£0.60^?£: UK pound	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	Colin Hay
The Best of John Wyndham 1932-1949	1977-00-00	John Wyndham	Sphere Books	0-7221-9374-2	£0.65^?£: UK pound	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	Patrick Woodroffe
The Best Science Fiction Stories	1977-00-00	ed. uncredited	Hamlyn	0-600-38243-5		750	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
John Wyndham Omnibus 2	1978-00-00	John Wyndham	Centripress (Centripress SF)	90-305-0177-4		469	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.	omni
Sleepers of Mars	1979-00-00	John Beynon Harris	Coronet Books	0-340-17326-2	£^?£: UK pound	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	Colin Hay
Sleepers of Mars	1981-00-00	John Beynon Harris	Coronet Books	0-340-17326-2	£0.95^?£: UK pound	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	Colin Hay
Sleepers of Mars	1981-09-26	John Beynon Harris	Severn House	0-7278-0670-X	£5.50^?£: UK pound	155	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Sleepers of Mars	1987-08-00	John Beynon Harris	New English Library	0-450-42023-X	£2.25^?£: UK pound	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
Sleepers of Mars	2022-10-11	John Wyndham	Gateway / Orion	978-1-4732-3087-3	£4.99^?£: 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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Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years

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