Title: The Fairy Chessmen

Title: The Fairy Chessmen Title Record # 98315
Authors: Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
Date: 1946-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
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Year	Title
1951^ⓘOnly novella length, but published separately in book form as "Chessboard Planet".	The Fairy Chessmen [as by Lewis Padgett]
1956	Chessboard Planet [as by Lewis Padgett]
1963	The Far Reality [as by Lewis Padgett]
1983	Chessboard Planet

Year	Language	Title
1957^ⓘTranslated by an unknown translator	French	L'homme venu du futur [as by Lewis Padgett]
1958	Italian	La scacchiera sterminata [as by Lewis Padgett]
1959^ⓘTranslated by Jesco von Puttkamer, credited as 'Pu'.	German	Gefährliches Schachspiel^?Gefaehrliches Schachspiel [as by Lewis Padgett]
1973	German	Stress [as by Lewis Padgett]
1976^ⓘTranslated by Michel Deutsch.	French	L'échiquier fabuleux^?L'echiquier fabuleux [as by Lewis Padgett]
1990	Italian	L'altra Realtà [as by Henry Kuttner]

Year	Title
1946	The Fairy Chessmen (Part 1 of 2) [as by Lewis Padgett]
1946	The Fairy Chessmen (Part 2 of 2) [as by Lewis Padgett]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Astounding Science Fiction, January 1946	1946-01-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Street & Smith Publications, Inc.		$0.25^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	180	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	Timmins
Astounding Science Fiction, February 1946	1946-02-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Street & Smith Publications, Inc.		$0.25^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	180	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	Timmins
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and the Fairy Chessmen	1951-00-00	Lewis Padgett	Gnome Press		$2.75^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	254	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Harry Harrison
Chessboard Planet	1956-00-00	Lewis Padgett	Galaxy Publishing Corp. (Galaxy Science Fiction Novel #26)	26	$0.35^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	124	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".	chap	Ed Emshwiller
L'homme venu du futur	1957-04-00	Lewis Padgett	Deux-Rives (Lumière Interdite)			252	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.	chap
I Romanzi del Cosmo #8	1958-01-00	ed. Tom Arno	Ponzoni	8	Lit 150^?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999	160	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	Luigi Garonzi
Gefährliches Schachspiel^?Gefaehrliches Schachspiel	1959-09-15	Lewis Padgett	Pabel ( Utopia Großband^?Utopia Grossband #108)	UGB108	DM 1.00^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	94	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".	chap	H. Albrecht
The Far Reality	1963-00-00	Lewis Padgett	Consul Books	1266	2/6^?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).	154	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.	chap
Science-Fiction-Stories 22	1973-03-00	ed. Walter Spiegl	Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 #39 (2943))	3-548-02943-4	DM 2.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	144	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
L'échiquier fabuleux	1976-06-15	Lewis Padgett	J'ai Lu (J'ai Lu - Science Fiction #689)			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.	chap	Chris Foss
Chessboard Planet and Other Stories	1983-00-00	Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore	Hamlyn Paperbacks (Hamlyn Science Fiction)	0-09-933270-1	£1.75^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	187	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
Urania #1132	1990-07-29	ed. Giuseppe Lippi	Mondadori	1132	Lit 4,500^?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999	144	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	Vicente Segrelles
L'échiquier fabuleux	1992-09-21	Lewis Padgett	J'ai Lu (J'ai Lu - Science Fiction #689)	2-277-11689-0		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.	chap	Oliviero Berni
Chessboard Planet	2024-03-16	Lewis Padgett	Faded Page	20240315	C$0.00^?C$: Canadian dollar. ISO code: CAD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	chap	Ed Emshwiller
The Far Reality	date unknown	Lewis Padgett	Consul Books	1266	4/-^?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).	154	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.	chap
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and the Fairy Chessmen	date unknown	Lewis Padgett	First Edition Library			254	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Harry Harrison

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Review by Groff Conklin (1952) in Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1952
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1956) in Astounding Science Fiction, December 1956
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1957) in Astounding Science Fiction, April 1957 (UK)
Review [French] by Henri Baudin (1977) in Fiction, #276
Review by Peter Young (2014) in Big Sky, #2: Pulp

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