Title: The Fairy Chessmen

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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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Serializations

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 [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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Reviews

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