SFBooks

The main purpose of this page is to track the books whose data I have entered into the The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). As a side-effect, the title listing also provides useful deep-links into the ISFDB records.

Note: I keep notes about my activities as an editor of the ISFDB on a separate page.

Publication list

Codes used in the "Special notes" column:

TRANSIENT

I am going to give away this book

NOOWN

I no longer own this book

PRICE

Prices on back cover have been obscured and are illegible

OLD (yyyy)

Old book. The publication year is in paranthesis.

Title	Author	Special notes
Witch World	Andre Norton	Estcarp 1/8
Web of the Witch World	Andre Norton	Estcarp 2/8
Three Against the Witch World	Andre Norton	Estcarp 3/8
Warlock of the Witch World	Andre Norton	Estcarp 4/8
Sorceress of the Witch World	Andre Norton	Estcarp 5/8
Trey of Swords	Andre Norton	Estcarp 6/8
Year of the Unicorn	Andre Norton	High Hallack 2/6
Spell of the Witch World	Andre Norton	First printing of the first book published by DAW. High Hallack 3/6.
The Crystal Gryphon	Andre Norton	DAW book. The Gryphon Saga 1/3.
The Crossroads of Time	Andre Norton	Blake Walker/Crosstime 2/2
The Stars are Ours	Andre Norton	Pax/Astra 1/2
Make Room! Make Room!	Harry Harrison	PRICE (U.K. price is barely legible as "35p" under a very bright light)
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!	Harry Harrison
Deathworld 1	Harry Harrison	PRICE (back cover is heavily damaged)
Deathworld 2	Harry Harrison
Deathworld 3	Harry Harrison
Homeworld	Harry Harrison
Wheelworld	Harry Harrison
Starworld	Harry Harrison
The Best of Harry Harrison	Harry Harrison	Collection
A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born	Harry Harrison	Copyright page has a different ISBN than all the rest of the book (spine, back cover, inside of front cover)
The Stainless Steel Rat Omnibus	Harry Harrison	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Hyperion	Dan Simmons
The Fall of Hyperion	Dan Simmons	The title page sports something that looks like a signature of Dan Simmons. I can't remember where I got my copy from, but the book looks new'ish, so I guess the signature cannot be genuine.
Endymion	Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion	Dan Simmons
Song of Kali	Dan Simmons
Fires of Eden	Dan Simmons	TRANSIENT
Ilium	Dan Simmons	Trade paperback. Gollancz Space Opera Collection.
Olympos	Dan Simmons	Cover artist was confirmed by Kraang who owns a hardcover copy that has the same cover art, but credits the artist on the dust jacket.
The Revenge of the Rose	Michael Moorcock	Example for a publication that can be distinguished from another publication only by price and a copyright page statement.
Hawkmoon	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus
Dancers at the End of Time	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Elric von Melniboné: Die Sage vom Ende der Zeit	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus
Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories	Michael Moorcock	Collection. Trade paperback
Elric: The Fortress of the Pearl	Michael Moorcock	Trade paperback. Example for a publication that is of type NOVEL but collects essays alongside the actual novel content item.
Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate	Michael Moorcock	Collection. Trade paperback
Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress	Michael Moorcock	Collection. Trade paperback
Elric: The Revenge of the Rose	Michael Moorcock	Collection. Trade paperback
Elric: Stormbringer!	Michael Moorcock	Trade paperback. Example for a publication that contains both a review and an essay for the same thing (the essay is used to record the title of the review as it appears in the publication).
Corum: The Prince in the Scarlet Robe	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Corum: The Prince With the Silver Hand	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Hawkmoon: Count Brass	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Hawkmoon: The History of the Runestaff	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus. Trade paperback
The Cornelius Quartet	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Jerry Cornelius: His Lives and His Times	Michael Moorcock	Collection. Trade paperback. Example where musical notes and lyrics are recorded as INTERIORART.
Von Bek	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus. Trade paperback
The Eternal Champion	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Moorcock's Multiverse	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus. Trade paperback
The Nomad of Time	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Travelling to Utopia	Michael Moorcock	Omnibus. Trade paperback
The Pirates of Zan	Murray Leinster
The Best of Murray Leinster	Murray Leinster	Collection
Quarantine World	Murray Leinster
A Case Of Conscience	James Blish
Cities in Flight	James Blish	Omnibus
The Quincunx of Time	James Blish	Expanded version of a shorter work entitled "Bleep"
Anywhen	James Blish
The Dreaming Tree	C. J. Cherryh	Omnibus. DAW book (DAW publication data not yet added)
The Pride of the Chanur	C. J. Cherryh	TRANSIENT
Chanur's Venture	C. J. Cherryh	TRANSIENT
Cyteen: The Betrayal	C. J. Cherryh	TRANSIENT
Downbelow Station	C. J. Cherryh	DAW book (older version of DAW publication data)
The Chanur Saga	C. J. Cherryh	Omnibus. DAW book
Chanur's Endgame	C. J. Cherryh	Omnibus. DAW book
Cyteen	C. J. Cherryh	Trade paperback
Alliance Space	C. J. Cherryh	Omnibus. DAW book
The Faded Sun	C. J. Cherryh	Omnibus. DAW book (newer version of DAW publication data)
Odd John	Olaf Stapledon	Why introduction author "Leslie G. Fiedler" in fact is "Leslie A. Fiedler": Wikipedia article, Undertaking Stapledon, both retrieved 28 July 2007
Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord	Olaf Stapledon	Price appears on the front cover.
Last and First Men: Penguin edition and Gollancz edition	Olaf Stapledon	The Gollancz edition is a trade paperback and is published in the Space Opera Collection.
Gateway	Frederik Pohl
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon	Frederik Pohl
Heechee Rendezvous	Frederik Pohl	Prologue begins on page ix, chapter 1 on page 1
The Annals of the Heechee	Frederik Pohl
Man Plus	Frederik Pohl	Trade paperback
Jem	Frederik Pohl	Trade paperback
The Age of the Pussyfoot	Frederik Pohl
Digits and Dastards	Frederik Pohl	Collection
In the Problem Pit	Frederik Pohl	Collection
Survival Kit	Frederik Pohl	Collection
The Gold at the Starbow's End	Frederik Pohl	Collection
The Space Merchants	Frederik Pohl C. M. Kornbluth	Trade paperback. ISBN-13 on copyright page has wrong check digit.
Wolfbane	Frederik Pohl C. M. Kornbluth
Gladiator-at-Law	Frederik Pohl C. M. Kornbluth
Critical Mass	Frederik Pohl C. M. Kornbluth	Collection
Before the Universe	Frederik Pohl C. M. Kornbluth	Collection
Search the Sky	Frederik Pohl C. M. Kornbluth
The Syndic	C. M. Kornbluth
The Starchild Trilogy	Frederik Pohl Jack Williamson	Omnibus (multiple authors). Trade paperback. The 3 novels in this omnibus appear in the reverse order in which they were written
Tiger! Tiger!	Alfred Bester
The Light Fantastic	Alfred Bester	Collection
Star Light, Star Bright	Alfred Bester	PRICE. Collection
Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester	Alfred Bester	Collection
Redemolished	Alfred Bester	Collection. Trade paperback. Example where the author of an essay is not recorded in the ISFDB as it is written on the title page ("Gregory S. Benford"). See this discussion.
The Demolished Man	Alfred Bester
Golem 100	Alfred Bester
The Gray Prince	Jack Vance
The Languages of Pao	Jack Vance
Maske: Thaery	Jack Vance
Night Lamp	Jack Vance
Ports of Call	Jack Vance
Lurulu	Jack Vance
The Blue World	Jack Vance
Alastor	Jack Vance	Omnibus
Planet of Adventure	Jack Vance	Omnibus
The Demon Princes: Volume One	Jack Vance	Omnibus
The Demon Princes: Volume Two	Jack Vance	Omnibus
Tales of the Dying Earth	Jack Vance	Collection
Araminta Station	Jack Vance
Ecce And Old Earth	Jack Vance
Throy	Jack Vance
Showboat World	Jack Vance	ISFDB cover scan shows cover artist signature in bottom-right corner, but the cover of my book does not have this signature probably because the cover has been cut differently.
To Live Forever	Jack Vance
The Five Gold Bands	Jack Vance	Example for "Imprint / Publisher"
The Dragon Masters	Jack Vance	Chapterbook
The Narrow Land	Jack Vance
Emphyrio	Jack Vance
Nopalgarth	Jack Vance	Omnibus. DAW book
The Anome	Jack Vance
The Brave Free Men	Jack Vance
The Asutra	Jack Vance
Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden	Jack Vance	Example for (uncredited) interior art that is mentioned in the publication notes only (i.e. no interior art titles)
Lyonesse: Green Pearl	Jack Vance
Lyonesse: Madouc	Jack Vance
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West	Gregory Maguire
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	Omnibus. Trade paperback
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul	Douglas Adams
Singularity Sky	Charles Stross
The Yiddish Policemen's Union	Michael Chabon
The Stars In Shroud	Gregory Benford	Examples for 1) Interior art attributed to author "uncredited", and 2) Afterword-like essay
Timescape	Gregory Benford	Number line that contains both printing numbers and years
Artifact / Cosm / Eater	Gregory Benford	Omnibus. Trade paperback
The Sirens of Titan	Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973	Kurt Vonnegut	Omnibus. Hardcover. The Library of America 216. Editor: Sidney Offit
Doomsday Book	Connie Willis
The Man in the High Castle	Philip K. Dick	TRANSIENT. Special number line for Vintage books
Four Novels of The 1960s	Philip K. Dick	Omnibus. Hardcover. The Library of America 173. Editor: Jonathan Lethem
Martian Time-Slip	Philip K. Dick	Trade paperback
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said	Philip K. Dick	Trade paperback
The Penultimate Truth	Philip K. Dick	Trade paperback
Minority Report	Philip K. Dick	Trade paperback
A Maze of Death	Philip K. Dick	Trade paperback
The Silicon Man	Charles Platt
A Mirror for Observers	Edgar Pangborn
Strangers	Gardner Dozois
The Guardian of Isis	Monica Hughes
Planet of the Apes	Pierre Boulle
The Jonah Kit	Ian Watson
The Godwhale	T. J. Bass
No Enemy But Time	Michael Bishop	Example for a book with a real introductory "Author's note"
Transfigurations	Michael Bishop	Hardcover. First British edition, first printing.
Tik-Tok	John Sladek
Shambleau	C. L. Moore	Collection. This is a reprint of the 1961 revised edition of the 1953 collection Shambleau And Others, in which the eponymous short story and others of the Northwest Smith series were first assembled. The 1961 revised edition drops the story "Jirel Meets Magic".
Jirel of Joiry	C. L. Moore	Collection
Jirel of Joiry / Northwest of Earth / Judgment Night	C. L. Moore	Omnibus. Trade paperback
No Boundaries	Henry Kuttner C. L. Moore	Collection
Mutant	Henry Kuttner	Collection. Hardcover. The collection consists of a frame story that connects 5 novelettes. The text is divided into 6 chapters titled "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2", etc. (in other publications titles may be different, e.g. "One", "Two", etc.). Chapters 1-5 begin with text from the frame story that introduces the novelette, followed by a distinct novelette title and the actual novelette text. The Page field for the novelette content items has the page number on which the novelette title appears (i.e. not the page on which the surrounding chapter begins). Chapter 6 consists of only frame story text and is not recorded as content item at all.
Fury / Mutant / The Best of Henry Kuttner	Henry Kuttner	Omnibus. Trade paperback. For "Mutant", see the notes above.
The New Adam	Stanley G. Weinbaum
Picnic on Paradise	Joanna Russ	Example for an Ace book with a catalog# instead of an ISBN
Dreamsnake	Vonda N. McIntyre	The price tag of the 2nd hand bookshop I bought this book from was glued over the price information printed on the back cover. When I tried to remove the price tag, the British price information was torn away together with the tag. The price 95p was still discernible, though, when I looked at the shreds of the price tag.
The Time Ships	Stephen Baxter	Example for a book with two fictional content items ("Editor's Note", and a "Prologue") and 4 pieces of interior art.
Raft	Stephen Baxter	Trade paperback. Xeelee 1.
Vacuum Diagrams	Stephen Baxter	Collection. Xeelee 5. Ironically contains an excerpt of itself.
Chiron	Stephen Baxter	Short story in a Chapbook. Number 312 of 400.
Dangerous Visions: 35th Anniversary Edition	Harlan Ellison	Anthology. Trade paperback. Example for page count that combines Roman and Arabic numeral page numbers ("xliii+544")
Again, Dangerous Visions: Book 1	Harlan Ellison	Anthology. Example for interior art by a single artist.
Again, Dangerous Visions: Book 2	Harlan Ellison	Anthology. Example for interior art by a single artist. PRICE (U.K. price is barely legible as "80p" under a very bright light)
Galaxy: Volume 1	Frederik Pohl Martin H. Greenberg Joseph D. Olander	Anthology. Example for an anthology where (almost) each story has an introductory memoir that has been recorded by ISFDB as a separate title
Galaxy: Volume 2	Frederik Pohl Martin H. Greenberg Joseph D. Olander	Anthology. Ditto "Galaxy: Volume 1"
The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book 1	Harry Harrison Brian W. Aldiss	PRICE. Anthology
The Astounding-Analog Reader, Book 2	Harry Harrison Brian W. Aldiss	PRICE. Anthology
Prologue to Analog	John W. Campbell	Anthology
Analog One	John W. Campbell	PRICE (but another primary verifier has added these prices: United Kingdom 3/6; Australia A$0.60; New Zealand NZ$0.45 (4/6); South Africa ZAR0.45). Anthology
Analog Two	John W. Campbell	PRICE. Anthology
Analog 3	John W. Campbell	PRICE. Anthology
Nebula Award Stories 2	James Gunn	Anthology
Nebula Award Stories 10	James Gunn	PRICE. Anthology
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 5	Michael Moorcock	Anthology
Bug-Eyed Monsters	Anthony Cheetham	Anthology
Interfaces	Ursula K. Le Guin Virginia Kidd	Anthology
The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 1	Harry Harrison Brian Aldiss	Anthology. Example with an introduction that is a variant title of the same introduction that appeared in a publication with a different name.
The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 6	Harry Harrison Brian Aldiss	Anthology. Example with cartoons and poems. Also has an introduction with a suffix that does not match the publication name ("Introduction (Best SF: 1972)"), which is an alternative solution to the variant-title approach used in vol. 1 + 7 of the series.
The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 7	Harry Harrison Brian Aldiss	Anthology
The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 9	Harry Harrison Brian Aldiss	Anthology. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. The book is accompanied with a paper slip saying that it is a review copy.
Grand Master's Choice	Andre Norton	Anthology
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2	Frederik Pohl	Anthology
The Eleventh Galaxy Reader	Frederik Pohl	Anthology. Hardcover
The Third Galaxy Reader	H. L. Gold	Anthology. Example where printing and publishing date are different.
Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System	Mike Ashley	Anthology. Trade paperback. Example of an anthology where the individual story introductions by the editor are recorded as separate titles.
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction	Mike Ashley	Anthology. Trade paperback
The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction	Mike Ashley	Anthology. Trade paperback
The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 19th Annual Collection	Gardner Dozois	Anthology. Trade paperback
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 27	Gardner Dozois	Anthology. Trade paperback
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 28	Gardner Dozois	Anthology. Trade paperback
The Mammoth Book of Contemporary SF Masters	Gardner Dozois	Anthology. Trade paperback
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s	Isaac Asimov Martin H. Greenberg Charles G. Waugh	Anthology. Trade paperback
The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1970s	Isaac Asimov Martin H. Greenberg Charles G. Waugh	Anthology. Trade paperback
The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1960s	Isaac Asimov Martin H. Greenberg Charles G. Waugh	Anthology. Trade paperback
The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1950s	Isaac Asimov Martin H. Greenberg Charles G. Waugh	Anthology. Trade paperback
The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940s	Isaac Asimov Martin H. Greenberg Charles G. Waugh	Anthology. Hardcover
The Mammoth Book of Short Science Fiction Novels	Isaac Asimov Martin H. Greenberg Charles G. Waugh	Anthology. Trade paperback
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories	Isaac Asimov Martin H. Greenberg Joseph D. Olander	PRICE. Anthology
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures	Sean Wallace	Anthology. Trade paperback
The World of Null-A	A. E. van Vogt	Trade paperback
Rite of Passage	Alexei Panshin	Trade paperback
Stone	Adam Roberts	Trade paperback. Gollancz Space Opera Collection.
The Centauri Device	M. John Harrison	Trade paperback. Gollancz Space Opera Collection.
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography	Humphrey Carpenter	Nonfiction
Tolkien: A Biography	Michael White	Nonfiction
The Road to Middle-Earth	Tom Shippey	Nonfiction
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien	Humphrey Carpenter	Nonfiction
Tolkien and the Silmarils	Randel Helms	Hardcover. Nonfiction
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays	J. R. R. Tolkien Christopher Tolkien (editor)	Nonfiction
J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator	Wayne G. Hammond Christina Scull	Hardcover. Nonfiction
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion	Wayne G. Hammond Christina Scull	Hardcover. Nonfiction. Two colored frontispieces.
The Lord of the Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien	De luxe hardcover edition on india paper
The Silmarillion	J. R. R. Tolkien	De luxe hardcover edition in slipcase. Two colored frontispieces.
The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth	J. R. R. Tolkien	Hardcover
The Book of Lost Tales: Part I	J. R. R. Tolkien Christopher Tolkien
Tree and Leaf	J. R. R. Tolkien	First edition. On the title page there is what looks like Tolkien's signature, but is merely a printed facsimile. See this web page for details.
Farmer Giles of Ham / The Adventures of Tom Bombadil	J. R. R. Tolkien	PRICE. Collection
Bored of the Rings	Henry N. Beard Douglas C. Kenney
Neuromancer	William Gibson	Trade paperback
Count Zero	William Gibson	Trade paperback
Mona Lisa Overdrive	William Gibson	Trade paperback
Burning Chrome	William Gibson	Collection. Trade paperback
The Difference Engine	William Gibson Bruce Sterling	Collection. Trade paperback
The Last Legends of Earth	A. A. Attanasio
The Status Civilization / Mindswap	Robert Sheckley
Where the Ships Die	William C. Dietz
The Amtrak Wars Book I: Cloud Warrior	Patrick Tilley
Dark Universe	Daniel F. Galouye
The Web Between the Worlds	Charles Sheffield
Cold As Ice	Charles Sheffield
The Winds of Altair	Ben Bova	Cover artist is not credited but a signature exists and the artist is recognizable, both from the signature and from the artistic style (it's Boris Vallejo). This book is also special because the novel has been rewritten from an earlier version that appeared as a juvenile.
Time and Again	Jack Finney
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell
The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham
The Valley of Spiders	H. G. Wells	Collection. Example where the story name in the TOC ("The Inexperienced Ghost") is different from the heading on the page where the story actually begins ("The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost").
The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells	Cover artist is not credited but a signature exists in the lower-right corner of the front cover; artist has not been identified yet.
A Canticle For Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Dark Benediction	Walter M. Miller, Jr.	Example where the author name appears with slightly different punctuation in the publication ("Walter M. Miller Jr", i.e. no comma before, and no period after, "Jr"), but this is not recorded as a variant title because the ISFDB guidelines say that this should be regularized.
Illuminatus!	Robert Anton Wilson Robert Shea
The Earth Will Shake	Robert Anton Wilson
The Widow's Son	Robert Anton Wilson
Interview with the Vampire	Anne Rice	Example for a printing history on the copyright page that is not a number line, but instead enumerates all printings together with the year they were made.
The Vampire Lestat	Anne Rice
The Queen of the Damned	Anne Rice
The Tale of the Body Thief	Anne Rice	Example where the printing is assumed from a not-entirely-clear statement on the copyright page.
Who Fears the Devil	Manly Wade Wellman	PRICE. Collection
The Incredible Shrinking Man	Richard Matheson	Collection. Contains the novel of the same name. Also present is the short story "Duel" which is the basis of the Steven Spielberg movie of the same name.
I Am Legend	Richard Matheson	Trade paperback
The Shores of Space	Richard Matheson	Collection
The Rats	James Herbert
The Silence of the Lambs (reference to title record)	Thomas Harris	ISFDB only has a title record for this because it won the Stoker award, but the novel is considered non-genre and therefore no publications are recorded. This used to be my verified pub record.
The Eyes of Heisenberg	Frank Herbert
The Jesus Incident	Frank Herbert	My copy of the book is in bad shape and the cover is faded (probably by exposure to sunlight for a long period of time) - compared to the ISFDB cover scan this is not an art variation.
Dune	Frank Herbert	Hardcover. Part of a numbered publication series (Gollancz SF Masterworks #71)
The Road to Science Fiction: Volume 1: From Gilgamesh to Wells	James Gunn	Anthology. Trade paperback. Publication is undated, but has ISBN-13, so it's probably not a 1st printing. Example for an anthology with entries that are excerpts from larger texts. SFRevu review.
The Road to Science Fiction: Volume 2: From Wells to Heinlein	James Gunn	Anthology. Trade paperback. SFRevu review.
The Road to Science Fiction: Volume 3: From Heinlein to Here	James Gunn	Anthology. Trade paperback. SFRevu review.
The Road to Science Fiction: Volume 4: From Here to Forever	James Gunn	Anthology. Trade paperback. SFRevu review.
The Road to Science Fiction Volume 5: The British Way	James Gunn	Anthology. Trade paperback
The Road to Science Fiction Volume 6: Around the World	James Gunn	Anthology. Trade paperback
Inside Science Fiction	James Gunn	Nonfiction. Trade paperback
Henry Martin	L. Neil Smith	PRICE
The Reality Dysfunction	Peter F. Hamilton
The Neutronium Alchemist	Peter F. Hamilton
The Naked God	Peter F. Hamilton
The Man Who Used the Universe	Alan Dean Foster	Example for a note that explains that publication date was taken from Amazon.com
Bloodhype	Alan Dean Foster	First NEL paperback edition
Mid-Flinx	Alan Dean Foster
Phylogenesis	Alan Dean Foster
Dirge	Alan Dean Foster
The Howling Stones	Alan Dean Foster
A Call to Arms	Alan Dean Foster
The False Mirror	Alan Dean Foster
The Spoils of War	Alan Dean Foster
Season of the Spellsong	Alan Dean Foster	Omnibus. Hardcover. Example of a publication with a gutter code.
Dragonflight	Anne McCaffrey
Dragonquest	Anne McCaffrey	Contains the appendix "Dragondex" which is credited on the copyright page. Subsequent publications of the same title, and also publications of other titles in the Pern series, contain a different version of the "Dragondex". All these publications contain the same credit line on the copyright page, which might create the impression that it's always the same "Dragondex" title, but in fact the "Dragondex" has been growing over the years, and publications just reproduce a snapshot of how the "Dragondex" looked at the time of publication. It is totally unclear which versions have been published, and therefore it is also unclear how the ISFDB should keep track of different "Dragondex" title records. Of the following different solutions that I see, I personally prefer solution 2. 1) Do not keep any title records at all, just mention the "Dragondex" in publication records where it appears. 2) Keep a single title record, with notes on the difficulties of keeping track of a serious publication history. Include that title record in publication records where the "Dragondex" appear. 3) Create a different title record for every publication record that is known to contain the "Dragondex". 4) Create a different title record for every Pern title that is known to contain the "Dragondex" (equivalent to the scheme used for the Bob Porter map, see below). Also see the author page 58221.
The White Dragon	Anne McCaffrey	Contains a map credited to Bob Porter on the copyright page. This has similar problems as the "Dragondex" mentioned above, although one can hope that there are not that many versions of the map as there are of the "Dragondex", because the map is a drawn artwork that is probably not revised as much as the written "Dragondex". The ISFDB at the moment has different title records for the map for every title that it appears in (e.g. "Dragonquest (map)", "The White Dragon (map)", etc.). This is a good solution as long as all publications of the same Pern title use the same version of the map. The solution breaks down, however, if a publisher decides to print an updated version of the map in newer publications of the same title.
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern	Anne McCaffrey
Nerilka's Story & The Coelura	Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsdawn	Anne McCaffrey
The Renegades of Pern	Anne McCaffrey
All the Weyrs of Pern	Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsong	Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsinger	Anne McCaffrey
Dragondrums	Anne McCaffrey
Nimisha's Ship	Anne McCaffrey	This Corgi publication from 1999 has a number line in addition to the detailed printing history. Earlier Corgi publications (notably the other Pern books with printing histories up to 1993) do not have a numberline, just the printing history.
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories	H. P. Lovecraft	Trade paperback
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories	H. P. Lovecraft	Trade paperback
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories	H. P. Lovecraft	Trade paperback
The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary	Ambrose Bierce	Trade paperback. Nonfiction
The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce	Ambrose Bierce	Trade paperback
Xanadu	Jane Yolen	Anthology
Earth Abides	George R. Stewart	Trade paperback. The only SF work by this author.
Young Miles	Lois McMaster Bujold	Omnibus. Publisher Baen explicitly states the publication date of this fourth printing on the copyright page.
Watership Down	Richard Adams	Price is barely legible as "95p". Publication record notes have an alternative statement by Mhhutchins how the publication date is derived from the printing history on the copyrighth page.
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast	Robin McKinley	No number line, printing and publication date is derived from the price information, as compared to what Locus states about the price of the first printing.
Legends: Volume 2	Robert Silverberg	Contains many interior art titles (frontispiece, maps, general interior art); also has a lot of credits besides any statements on the copyright page (special acknowledgements page, signatures on interior art)
Legends: Volume 3	Robert Silverberg	Ditto.
Strange Dreams	Stephen R. Donaldson	Anthology
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 7	Arthur W. Saha	Anthology. DAW book. Example with an uncredited but signed frontispiece.
Dragon Fantastic	Rosalind M. Greenberg Martin H. Greenberg	Anthology. DAW Book
Dinosaur Fantastic	Mike Resnick Martin H. Greenberg	Anthology. DAW Book. One story listed with a wrong page number in the table of contents
Catfantastic IV	Andre Norton Martin H. Greenberg	Anthology. DAW Book
Witch Fantastic	Mike Resnick Martin H. Greenberg	Anthology. DAW Book. Author name is misprinted on the first page of the story.
The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis	Hardcover edition in slipcase. Contains special material (separate map, foldout timeline) and essays that are uncredited excerpts from another book. Example for a general interior art title.
Out of the Silent Planet	C. S. Lewis	Trade paperback
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	Trade paperback
Through the Looking-Glass	Lewis Carroll	Trade paperback
The Hunting of the Snark	Lewis Carroll	Chapterbook. Trade paperback
Death Is a Lonely Business	Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man	Ray Bradbury	Panther book, first printing (i.e. no reprint statements)
The Machineries of Joy	Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles	Ray Bradbury	Example for a publishing series
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury
The Small Assassin	Ray Bradbury	Panther book, first printing (i.e. no reprint statements)
The October Country: Grafton edition and Earthlight edition	Ray Bradbury	The Earthlight edition is nicer (it has a foreword and interior art) and includes all of the stories in the Grafton edition, except for "The Traveler". The 2nd hand bookshop where I bought the Earthlight edition has glued a tag over the price information and the cover artist credits printed on the back cover. Removing the tag was only a partial success, so that the British price £5.99 is now barely legible, but the cover artist is still obscured.
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	Trade paperback
The Dream Master	Roger Zelazny	Panther book, first printing (i.e. no reprint statements), catalog no instead of an ISBN
Lord of Light	Roger Zelazny	Trade paperback
The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles 1-10	Roger Zelazny	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Doorways in the Sand	Roger Zelazny	Hardcover. Gutter code "G 28" on page 180 identifies this as the first printing (according to notes in ISFDB pub record).
This Immortal	Roger Zelazny	Trade Paperback
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld	Patricia A. McKillip
Riddle-Master	Patricia A. McKillip	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Watchtower	Elizabeth A. Lynn	Trade paperback. Example for a publication with a fictional content item (an essay) and two interior art titles, all three of which are only mentioned in the pub notes but do not appear as distinct title records.
The Dancers of Arun	Elizabeth A. Lynn	Trade paperback
The Northern Girl	Elizabeth A. Lynn	Trade paperback
Magician	Raymond E. Feist	The following list tries to enumerate and describe the different versions of maps that appear in the publications by Raymond E. Feist that I own. In all of the pubs there is not a single credit or signature that would allow attribution to an artist. The situation on ISFDB is difficult: Unfortunately I have decided to add title records for the maps to my pubs, but I could not bring myself to add a different title for each of the map versions I am enumerating here - it would have seemed a bit excessive. In hindsight, I should probably have mentioned the maps only in the pub notes, since now the ISFDB records a state that is not really accurate. To make things more difficult, other people did add title records for different map versions, but I am unable to match those title records to the maps I have in my publications. Clearing up the situation would require quite a bit of effort: Put up scans of the different map versions on my website and ask editors which version they have in their publications. So far I have dodged this duty... The map of Midkemia that appears in "Magician" is the same as in "The King's Buccaneer" (v1). A distinguishing feature is that it uses a fancy medieval-style font. Almost the same map (v2) appears in "Shadow of a Dark Queen", "Rise of a Merchant Prince" and "Shards of a Broken Crown"; it differs from v1 only by using a slightly different but still medieval-style font, and having location names placed slightly differently (example: "Vale of Dreams"). A third version (v3) of the map of Midkemia is in "Silverthorn": Its style is totally different from v1 and v2, e.g. it uses a plain font, and terrain features such as woods and mountains are drawn differently. The map of Kelewan that appears in "Magician" (v1) has the same style as the v1 map of Midkemia (e.g. fancy medieval-style font, terrain features are drawn the same). Another map of Kelewan (v2) with totally different style appears in Daughter of the Empire; this map resembles in style the v2 map of Midkemia. Slightly different versions of a map of Novindus appear in "The King's Buccaneer" (v1), "Shadow of a Dark Queen" (v2) and "Rise of a Merchant Prince" (v3). The all use the same fancy medieval-style font as the v1 map of Midkemia, and they are all largely the same. There are some differences, though: 1) The title of v1 looks as if it was misspelled "Novinous" because the letter that is supposed to be "d" looks like it's an "o". In contrast, the letters "d" and "o" in v2 and v3 are clearly different. 2) v1 is drawn with finer details, while v2 and v3 look rather crude, as if they had been drawn with too much ink. 3) v1 and v3 are printed with a white background, v2 is printed with a dark background. There are no maps in "A Darkness at Sethanon" and "Prince of the Blood"
Silverthorn	Raymond E. Feist
A Darkness at Sethanon	Raymond E. Feist
Prince of the Blood	Raymond E. Feist
The King's Buccaneer	Raymond E. Feist
Daughter of the Empire	Raymond E. Feist Janny Wurts
Shadow of a Dark Queen	Raymond E. Feist
Rise of a Merchant Prince	Raymond E. Feist
Rage of a Demon King	Raymond E. Feist
Shards of a Broken Crown	Raymond E. Feist	The essay "The World of Midkemia" is not credited to a person, there is only a copyright statement on the copyright page. The title record for the essay therefore is attributed to the usual pseudo author "uncredited".
Faerie Tale	Raymond E. Feist	Cover artist is not credited but a signature exists on the front cover; artist has not been identified yet.
Inverted World	Christopher Priest	Trade Paperback. Part of an unnumbered publication series (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))
The Prestige	Christopher Priest	Trade Paperback
Fugue for a Darkening Island	Christopher Priest
Grass	Sheri S. Tepper	Trade Paperback. Part of an unnumbered publication series (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))
The Steel of Raithskar	Randall Garrett	Copyright page has a different ISBN than all the rest of the book (front and back cover, spine)
Lord Darcy Investigates	Randall Garrett	Collection
Too Many Magicians	Randall Garrett
Murder and Magic	Randall Garrett	Collection
Ten Little Wizards	Michael Kurland
Assassin's Apprentice	Robin Hobb	Example for map and excerpt mentioned only in pub notes.
Royal Assassin	Robin Hobb
Assassin's Quest	Robin Hobb	Moved verification to another pub record in 2024. The original verification was from 2012-10-31.
The First Book of Lankhmar	Fritz Leiber	Omnibus, consisting of novels and collections. Trade paperback
The Second Book of Lankhmar	Fritz Leiber	Omnibus, consisting of novels and collections. Trade paperback
The Wanderer	Fritz Leiber
Conjure Wife	Fritz Leiber
The Best of Fritz Leiber	Fritz Leiber	Collection
Tarzan of the Apes	Edgar Rice Burroughs	Book with no price information.
A Princess of Mars	Edgar Rice Burroughs	Ballantine book with a catalog number instead of an ISBN, which includes the full printing history on the copyright page. Apparently Ballantine issued each new printing with a new catalog number. Also interesting: Pagination switches from Roman to Arabic numerals without restarting at page 1.
Stories of Mars	Edgar Rice Burroughs	Omnibus. Trade paperback.
Magic Kingdom For Sale - Sold!	Terry Brooks	Example for a book with content titles that appear at a handcounted page number
The Black Unicorn	Terry Brooks
Wizard at Large	Terry Brooks
The Tangle Box	Terry Brooks	Example for a book with uncredited cover artist, but credits taken from a secondary verification source (Locus1 in this case)
The Grey Mane of Morning	Joy Chant
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	Susanna Clarke	Example of a book where the same printing (1st printing in this case) was issued with two different covers by the same artist (difference is only in the background color).
Daggerspell	Katharine Kerr	Example for book where two maps and a fictional essay are mentioned in the pub notes only.
Lest Darkness Fall / Rogue Queen / The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales	L. Sprague de Camp	Omnibus. Trade paperback
The Complete Compleat Enchanter	L. Sprague de Camp Fletcher Pratt	Collection
The Eye of the World	Robert Jordan	Example of an Orbit book that lists the printing history on the copyright page (instead of using a number line)
The Great Hunt	Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn	Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising	Robert Jordan	Part of a boxed set. Frontispiece is a colored version of a b&w map appearing inside the book.
The Fires of Heaven	Robert Jordan	Part of a boxed set. A better and more detailed description of the content is in this pub record.
Lord of Chaos	Robert Jordan	Part of a boxed set
A Crown of Swords	Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers	Robert Jordan	Example of a book where the same printing (1st printing in this case) was issued with two different covers by different artists.
The Dragonbone Chair	Tad Williams	DAW book. Signature facsimile on title page.
Magyk	Angie Sage	Hardcover
Dragon Wing	Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman	Example where musical notes and lyrics are recorded as POEM.
Elven Star	Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman
Fire Sea	Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman
Serpent Mage	Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman
The Hand of Chaos	Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman
Into the Labyrinth	Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman
The Seventh Gate	Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone	J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J. K. Rowling	Hardcover
The Rediscovery of Man	Cordwainer Smith	Collection. Trade paperback
Norstrilia	Cordwainer Smith
Quest of the Three Worlds	Cordwainer Smith	Collection or (fix-up) novel
Space Lords	Cordwainer Smith	Collection
City of Illusions	Ursula K. Le Guin	Example with a frontispiece interior art title.
Rocannon's World	Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven	Ursula K. Le Guin
The Compass Rose	Ursula K. Le Guin	Collection
Orsinian Tales	Ursula K. Le Guin	Collection
The Earthsea Quartet	Ursula K. Le Guin	Omnibus. Trade paperback
The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin	Trade paperback. 40th Anniversary Edition
The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula K. Le Guin	Hardcover
Planet of Exile	Ursula K. Le Guin
A Tupolev Too Far and Other Stories	Brian W. Aldiss	PRICE. Collection
Cryptozoic	Brian W. Aldiss	Panther book that is actually a third printing, although according to the copyright page it should be a second printing. Another undated Panther publication can be identified as an earlier printing due to a lower price.
A Romance of the Equator	Brian W. Aldiss	Collection
The Moment of Eclipse	Brian W. Aldiss	Collection
The Malacia Tapestry	Brian W. Aldiss
The Saliva Tree and Other Growths	Brian W. Aldiss	Collection
Report on Probability A	Brian W. Aldiss
Frankenstein Unbound	Brian W. Aldiss	The referenced pub record could probably be merged with this one, a corresponding task is on my TODO list
Non-Stop	Brian W. Aldiss	Trade paperback.
Helliconia	Brian W. Aldiss	Trade paperback. Part of an unnumbered publication series (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))
The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s	Brian W. Aldiss	Collection
Greybeard	Brian W. Aldiss
More Than Human	Theodore Sturgeon	Example for an old Ballantine book with a catalogue number instead of an ISBN
To Here and the Easel	Theodore Sturgeon
The Furious Future	Algis Budrys
Michaelmas	Algis Budrys
Some Will Not Die	Algis Budrys
Rogue Moon: Coronet edition and Gollancz SF Masterworks II edition	Algis Budrys	Trade paperback (SF Masterworks II edition)
The Unexpected Dimension	Algis Budrys	Collection. Hardcover
Infinite Dreams	Joe Haldeman	PRICE (I am not even sure if there is a price). Collection. The author's signature appears on the title page, together with a date ("3 Apr 80") - this seems to be genuine!
Mindbridge	Joe Haldeman
All My Sins Remembered	Joe Haldeman	Collection or (fix-up) novel
The Forever War	Joe Haldeman	Trade paperback
Forever Free	Joe Haldeman	Library book. Cover artist is wrongly credited to Chris Moore instead of Bob Eggleton - in the ISFDB this results in the title record having the author "Chris Moore (in error)", and being a variant title of a variant title. Funny enough, the author Chris Moore (in error) is now an alternate name for two different authors.
Camouflage	Joe Haldeman
Stand on Zanzibar	John Brunner
The Sheep Look Up	John Brunner
The Infinitive of Go	John Brunner
The Crucible of Time	John Brunner
The Compleat Traveller in Black	John Brunner
The Shockwave Rider	John Brunner	Trade paperback
The Jagged Orbit	John Brunner	DAW book
The Stone That Never Came Down	John Brunner	Hardcover. Doubleday 1973 edition, printed in April 1974 according to gutter code P17 on page 206. From the library of the author - with his bookplate on the front free end paper.
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand	Samuel R. Delany
Dhalgren	Samuel R. Delany
The Einstein Intersection	Samuel R. Delany
The Jewels of Aptor	Samuel R. Delany
Tales of Nevèrÿon	Samuel R. Delany	Collection
Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities: Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four	Samuel R. Delany
The Fall of the Towers	Samuel R. Delany	Omnibus
Babel-17	Samuel R. Delany
Driftglass	Samuel R. Delany	Collection
Nova	Samuel R. Delany	Trade paperback. Example of a publication without a price.
Consider Phlebas	Iain M. Banks	Trade paperback. Culture novel.
The Player of Games	Iain M. Banks	Trade paperback. Culture novel.
Use of Weapons	Iain M. Banks	Trade paperback. Culture novel.
Excession	Iain M. Banks	Culture novel
Inversions	Iain M. Banks	Trade paperback. Culture novel.
Look to Windward	Iain M. Banks	Culture novel
Matter	Iain M. Banks	Trade paperback. Culture novel.
Surface Detail	Iain M. Banks	Trade paperback. Culture novel.
The Hydrogen Sonata	Iain M. Banks	Trade paperback. Culture novel.
The State of the Art	Iain M. Banks	Collection. Trade paperback. Two of the stories are Culture stories.
Against a Dark Background	Iain M. Banks	Trade paperback
Feersum Endjinn	Iain M. Banks	Trade paperback
The Algebraist	Iain M. Banks	Trade paperback
Transition	Iain M. Banks	Hardcover. First edition, first printing.
The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks	Trade paperback
Red Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson
Blue Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson
Tactics of Mistake	Gordon R. Dickson	PRICE
Soldier, Ask Not	Gordon R. Dickson	PRICE (except for Canada price)
Dorsai!	Gordon R. Dickson
Mission of Gravity	Hal Clement	Trade paperback
Cycle of Fire	Hal Clement
Natives of Space	Hal Clement
Iceworld / Cycle of Fire / Close to Critical	Hal Clement	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Still River	Hal Clement
Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead	Orson Scott Card
Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card	Orson Scott Card	Collection. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Example where the "Pages" field is set to "x+675" even though no content was recorded on the pages with Roman numerals. This is specifically covered in the help (although it says that unnumbered pages in between the two ranges can be ignored, but in this case previous editors handcounted forward from the page with the highest Roman numeral "ix" to arrive at "x").
City	Clifford D. Simak	Collection. Ace edition 1981.
City	Clifford D. Simak	Collection. Gollancz edition ca. 2011. Includes a new, modern-day introduction, but the "Epilog" story from the Ace edition is missing.
Way Station	Clifford D. Simak
Ring Around the Sun	Clifford D. Simak
Out of Their Minds	Clifford D. Simak
All the Traps of Earth	Clifford D. Simak	Collection
The Night of the Puudly	Clifford D. Simak	Collection
Stranger in a Strange Land	Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers	Robert A. Heinlein
Expanded Universe	Robert A. Heinlein	Collection
The Puppet Masters	Robert A. Heinlein
Assignment in Eternity	Robert A. Heinlein	Collection
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress	Robert A. Heinlein	Hardcover
The Green Hills of Earth	Robert A. Heinlein	OLD (1956)
Double Star	Robert A. Heinlein
The City and the Stars	Arthur C. Clarke	Trade paperback
The Fountains of Paradise	Arthur C. Clarke	Trade paperback
Prelude to Space	Arthur C. Clarke
The Songs of Distant Earth	Arthur C. Clarke
Childhoods End	Arthur C. Clarke
The Nine Billion Names of God	Arthur C. Clarke	Collection. Hardcover. Contains the introduction and 19 out of 25 short stories that appear in the original 1967 collection.
2001: A Space Odyssey	Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two	Arthur C. Clarke
Rendezvous With Rama	Arthur C. Clarke
Rendezvous With Rama	Arthur C. Clarke	Trade paperback. Gollancz Space Opera Collection.
Rama II	Arthur C. Clarke
The Garden of Rama	Arthur C. Clarke
Rama Revealed	Arthur C. Clarke
A Fall of Moondust	Arthur C. Clarke
Expedition to Earth	Arthur C. Clarke	Collection. Contains "The Sentinel".
Earthlight	Arthur C. Clarke	Trade paperback. Example of a publication without a price.
The Light of Other Days	Arthur C. Clarke Stephen Baxter	The ISFDB link points to the Voyager / HarperCollins UK hardcover first edition, first printing, but the actual book I have is an uncorrected proof copy of that edition, marked as such on the back cover. My book has the hardcover size but a trade paperback binding. It is accompanied by a review card from HarperCollins. I have not added the details of my book to ISFDB because the project excludes ARCs (advanced reader copies) that were not produced for sale by the publisher.
Nightfall One	Isaac Asimov	Collection
Nightfall Two	Isaac Asimov	Collection. PRICE
Pebble in the Sky	Isaac Asimov
The Stars Like Dust	Isaac Asimov
The Currents of Space	Isaac Asimov	PRICE?
The Foundation Trilogy	Isaac Asimov	Omnibus. Trade paperback. Example for a non-standard page count: 227+viii+227+iv+225 (because page numbering restarts with each novel)
The Caves of Steel	Isaac Asimov
The Naked Sun	Isaac Asimov
The Robots of Dawn	Isaac Asimov
Robots and Empire	Isaac Asimov
The Complete Robot	Isaac Asimov	Collection
The Gods Themselves	Isaac Asimov
Foundation's Edge	Isaac Asimov	Example for a book that contains a synopsis which I have not recorded as a separate title.
Foundation and Earth	Isaac Asimov
Prelude to Foundation	Isaac Asimov
I. Asimov: A Memoir	Isaac Asimov	Autobiography. Nonfiction
A Pair from Space	James Blish Robert Silverberg	Anthology. Contains the novelettes "Giants in the Earth" (by Blish) and "We, the Marauders" (by Silverberg).
Space on My Hands	Fredric Brown	Collection. All short fiction titles are in lower case on their starting page (except "Introduction"). On ISFDB they are recorded with regularized case.
The Tree Lord of Imeten / Empire Star	Tom Purdom Samuel R. Delany	Ace Double
Star Bridge	Jack Williamson James E. Gunn
The Best of Mack Reynolds	Mack Reynolds	Collection. Each story has a short introduction, but the page number given in the pub record is where the actual story starts.
Men Against the Stars	Martin Greenberg	Anthology
Genesis	Poul Anderson
The Byworlder	Poul Anderson
The Night Face	Poul Anderson
Tau Zero	Poul Anderson	Trade paperback. Gollancz Space Opera Collection.
Brain Wave / The Boat of a Million Years / The Guardians of Time	Poul Anderson	Omnibus. Trade paperback
The Broken Sword	Poul Anderson
The Trouble Twisters	Poul Anderson	Hardcover
Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age	Neal Stephenson
The Cryptonomicon	Neal Stephenson	Trade paperback
Revelation Space	Alastair Reynolds
Chasm City	Alastair Reynolds	Trade paperback
Redemption Ark	Alastair Reynolds
Absolution Gap	Alastair Reynolds
The Prefect	Alastair Reynolds	Trade paperback
Century Rain	Alastair Reynolds	Trade paperback. Gollancz Space Opera Collection.
Zima Blue and Other Stories	Alastair Reynolds	Collection. Trade paperback
Sundiver	David Brin
Startide Rising	David Brin
The Uplift War	David Brin
Moving Mars	Greg Bear
Songs of Earth and Power	Greg Bear	Omnibus
Eon	Greg Bear	Trade paperback. Gollancz Space Opera Collection
Blood Music	Greg Bear	Trade paperback
Darwin's Radio	Greg Bear	Hardcover. First edition, first printing.
Darwin's Children	Greg Bear	Contains a "Biological Primer" piece that is almost identical to the one in "Darwin's Radio". Differences: 1) Fix of descriptive error: "contains the memory necessary" vs. "contains the instructions necessary"; 2) Precision: "Researchers estimate" vs. "Researchers currently estimate"; 3) Scientific update 1: "consists of between sixty thousand and a hundred thousand genes" vs. "consists of approximately thirty thousand genes"; 4) Scientific update 2: "Biofilms also exist in your intestines and on your teeth" vs. "Biofilms can also exist in your intestines, your urinary tract, and on your teeth, where they sometimes cause problems,"; 5) Fix of spelling error: "eucaryotic" vs. "eukaryotic"; 6) Fix of grammatical error: "phage" vs. "phages"; 7) Style change: "to create biofilm 'cities'; you may be familiar with these cities" vs. "to create biofilms; you may be familiar with these bacterial 'cities'"; 7) Several minor changes of interpunction or emphasis.
New Legends	Greg Bear	Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Example with an "Epilog" piece attributed to author "uncredited".
The Fifth Head of Cerberus	Gene Wolfe	Trade paperback
Storeys from the Old Hotel	Gene Wolfe	Collection. Trade paperback
Shadow & Claw	Gene Wolfe	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Sword & Citadel	Gene Wolfe	Omnibus. Trade paperback
The Urth of the New Sun	Gene Wolfe	Trade paperback
Shadrach in the Furnace	Robert Silverberg
The Stochastic Man	Robert Silverberg	PRICE. Although I don't have the price, I assume that I have the first printing because the ISFDB cover scan matches my book exactly. The other pub record, dated only 3 years later, does not have the "New in paperback" flag in the bottom-right corner of the front cover.
Needle in a Timestack	Robert Silverberg	Collection. Example for a Sphere book without any information that helps with dating, but the ISFDB has another pub that is the first printing.
Hawksbill Station	Robert Silverberg
A Time of Changes: Signet edition and Orb edition	Robert Silverberg	The Orb edition is a trade paperback and includes a new, modern-day introduction by the author.
The Book of Skulls	Robert Silverberg	Trade paperback. Gollancz SF Masterworks publication that, although it is not the first printing, does not have a number line.
Nightwings	Robert Silverberg	Trade paperback. Fixup novel. Has a number line that 1) mixes printing numbers with years, but 2) at the same time reverses the usual interpretation of these numbers.
Earth's Other Shadow	Robert Silverberg	Collection. Panther book that is not the first printing, despite missing reprint statements on copyright.
The Man in the Maze	Robert Silverberg
The Masks of Time	Robert Silverberg
Riverworld	Philip José Farmer	Omnibus. Trade paperback
The Fabulous Riverboat	Philip José Farmer
The Maker of Universes	Philip José Farmer
The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1952-1964	Philip José Farmer	Collection. Hardcover
The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1964-1973	Philip José Farmer	Collection. Hardcover
The Maker of Universes / To Your Scattered Bodies Go / The Unreasoning Mask	Philip José Farmer	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Ringworld	Larry Niven	52nd printing!
The Ringworld Engineers	Larry Niven
The Magic Goes Away	Larry Niven	Cover by Boris Vallejo. Has a lot of interior art.
Neutron Star	Larry Niven	Collection. PRICE
Protector	Larry Niven
Flatlander	Larry Niven	Collection
Crashlander	Larry Niven	Collection
The Mote in God's Eye	Larry Niven Jerry Pournelle
Three Books of Known Space	Larry Niven	Omnibus. Trade paperback
Terraforming Earth	Jack Williamson
Parable of the Sower	Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents	Octavia E. Butler
Darkover Landfall	Marion Zimmer Bradley	DAW book
The Ages of Chaos	Marion Zimmer Bradley	Omnibus. DAW book
The Snow Queen	Joan D. Vinge
Omega	Jack McDevitt
The Star Fraction	Ken MacLeod
The Child Garden	Geoff Ryman	Trade paperback
Mockingbird	Walter Tevis	Trade paperback
Cross-Currents	Robert Lynn Asprin Lynn Abbey	Omnibus (collecting anthologies). Hardcover. Gutter code "O 48" on page 627 identifies this as the first printing (according to notes in ISFDB pub record).
The Price of Victory	Robert Lynn Asprin Lynn Abbey	Omnibus (collecting anthologies). Hardcover. Seems to have no gutter code (looking at the bottom of each page I couldn't find one).
The Dead of Winter	Robert Lynn Asprin Lynn Abbey
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang	Kate Wilhelm	Trade paperback
Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions	Kate Wilhelm	Collection. Hardcover. Has a number line that mixes printing numbers with years.
The Clewiston Test / The Infinity Box / Welcome, Chaos	Kate Wilhelm	Omnibus. Trade paperback
American Gods	Neil Gaiman	Trade paperback. Has a number line that mixes printing numbers with years.
The Quantum Rose	Catherine Asaro	Hardcover
Science Fiction: DAW 30th Anniversary	Elizabeth R. Wollheim Sheila E. Gilbert	Anthology. Hardcover. DAW book.
Fantasy: DAW 30th Anniversary	Elizabeth R. Wollheim Sheila E. Gilbert	Anthology. DAW book
The Hugo Winners, Volumes One and Two	Isaac Asimov	Omnibus, consisting of two anthologies. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Example of a publication with a gutter code.
The Mammoth Book of Nebula Awards SF	Kevin J. Anderson	Anthology. Trade paperback
Nebula Awards Showcase 2015	Greg Bear	Anthology. Trade paperback
Before the Golden Age Volume One	Isaac Asimov	Anthology. This is volume 1 from the 4-volume 1975 Orbit edition. I am missing volumes 2-4.
Before the Golden Age Volume Two	Isaac Asimov	Anthology. This is volume 2 from the 3-volume 1978 Orbit edition. I am missing volume 1.
Before the Golden Age Volume Three	Isaac Asimov	Anthology. This is volume 3 from the 3-volume 1978 Orbit edition. I am missing volume 1.
Eternal Light	Paul J. McAuley	Trade paperback. Gollancz Space Opera Collection.
The Stand	Stephen King
IT	Stephen King
The Tommyknockers	Stephen King
Misery	Stephen King
The Dark Half	Stephen King
Gerald's Game	Stephen King
Dolores Claiborne	Stephen King	Page numbering switches from Roman to Arabic numerals without restarting at 1
Insomnia	Stephen King
Night Shift	Stephen King	Collection. Trade paperback
Different Seasons	Stephen King	Collection
Skeleton Crew	Stephen King	Collection
Four Past Midnight	Stephen King	Collection
Nightmares and Dreamscapes	Stephen King	Collection. Example where a single interior art page is listed in the middle of the book, with a minimal sort descriptor in the page field.
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger	Stephen King
The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three	Stephen King
The Waste Lands	Stephen King
The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass	Stephen King
Wolves of the Calla	Stephen King	Trade paperback
Song of Susannah	Stephen King	Trade paperback
The Dark Tower	Stephen King	Trade paperback
The Talisman	Stephen King Peter Straub	Trade paperback
The Bachman Books	Richard Bachman	Omnibus
Thinner	Richard Bachman	Trade paperback
A Fire Upon the Deep	Vernor Vinge	Trade paperback
Pavane	Keith Roberts	Collection or (fix-up) novel. Trade paperback. Story title prefixes ("First Measure" etc.) not recorded as variant titles.
The Deep	John Crowley	Trade paperback
Engine Summer	John Crowley	Trade paperback
Permutation City	Greg Egan	Trade paperback
Diaspora	Greg Egan	Trade paperback
Flowers For Algernon	Daniel Keyes	Trade paperback. Part of an unnumbered publication series (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II)). This book is notable because another publication of the same title from the same series is a mass market paperback - the first mm paperback I have seen in the SF Masterworks series! The other publication includes an introduction that my edition does not have, but is cheaper, probably due to the mm paperback binding. It also has a different ISBN.
Wasp	Eric Frank Russell	Trade paperback
Somewhere a Voice	Eric Frank Russell	Collection
Synners: Gollancz SF Masterworks (II) edition and The Best of the Masterworks edition	Pat Cadigan	Trade paperback. Example for page count that combines Roman and Arabic numeral and unnumbered page numbers ("xiii+475+[2]"). The page number of the "Acknowledgments" title is given without brackets (i.e. "476" not "[476]") although the page is unnumbered.
Sci-Fi Chronicles: A Visual History of the Galaxy's Greatest Science Fiction	Guy Haley	Hardcover. Nonfiction
Far Out / In Deep / Off Centre / Turning On	Damon Knight	Omnibus. Trade paperback
The Three-body Problem	Cixin Liu	Trade paperback
Best SF Three	Edmund Crispin	Anthology. Hardcover
The Skylark of Space	E. E. "Doc" Smith
Skylark Three	E. E. "Doc" Smith
Skylark of Valeron	E. E. "Doc" Smith	PRICE
Skylark DuQuesne	E. E. "Doc" Smith
Shadows in the Sun	Chad Oliver	OLD (1954)
A Sense of Wonder	Sam Moskowitz	Anthology
Tales from the Galaxies	Amabel Williams-Ellis Michael Pearson	Anthology. 3 of the 4 stories are abridged.
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction	Peter Nicholls John Clute	Hardcover. Nonfiction
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy	John Grant John Clute	Hardcover. Nonfiction
Appleseed	John Clute	Hardcover. First edition, first printing. The pub record mentions a jacket image credit on the jacket's rear flap, which I cannot find in my copy. The pub note was added by Bluesman who is no longer active.
Chroniken der Zukunft Band 1	Wolfgang Jeschke	Omnibus (multiple authors)
Chroniken der Zukunft Band 2	Wolfgang Jeschke	Omnibus (multiple authors)
Chroniken der Zukunft Band 3	Wolfgang Jeschke	Omnibus (multiple authors)
Welten der Zukunft: Chroniken aus Raum und Zeit Band 4	Wolfgang Jeschke	Omnibus (multiple authors)
Welten der Zukunft: Chroniken aus Raum und Zeit Band 5	Wolfgang Jeschke	Omnibus (multiple authors)
Welten der Zukunft: Chroniken aus Raum und Zeit Band 6	Wolfgang Jeschke	Omnibus (multiple authors)
Welten der Zukunft: Chroniken aus Raum und Zeit Band 7	Wolfgang Jeschke	Omnibus (multiple authors)
Welten der Zukunft: Chroniken aus Raum und Zeit Band 8	Wolfgang Jeschke	Omnibus (multiple authors)
Welten der Zukunft: Chroniken aus Raum und Zeit Band 9	Wolfgang Jeschke	Omnibus (multiple authors)
Welten der Zukunft: Chroniken aus Raum und Zeit Band 10	Wolfgang Jeschke	Omnibus (multiple authors)
Welten der Zukunft: Chroniken aus Raum und Zeit Band 11	Wolfgang Jeschke	Omnibus (multiple authors)
Welten der Zukunft: Chroniken aus Raum und Zeit Band 12	Wolfgang Jeschke	Omnibus (multiple authors)
Lord of the Flies	William Golding	This edition specially produced for the German school and university market.
Chthon	Piers Anthony
Phthor	Piers Anthony
The Technician	Neal Asher	Trade paperback
Gridlinked	Neal Asher	Trade paperback
Leviathan Wakes	James. S. A. Corey	Trade paperback. The Expanse 1.
Caliban's War	James. S. A. Corey	Trade paperback. The Expanse 2.
Beachheads in Space	August Derleth	Anthology
On Wings of Song	Thomas M. Disch	Hardcover. First edition, first printing.
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Author list

• Andre Norton
• Harry Harrison (has pubs in German)
• Dan Simmons
• Michael Moorcock (has pubs in German)
• Murray Leinster
• Olaf Stapledon
• Alfred Bester
• Gregory Maguire
• Frederik Pohl
• C. M. Kornbluth
• Douglas Adams (has pubs in German)
• Jack Vance (has pubs in German)
• Michael Chabon
• Gregory Benford
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Connie Willis
• Philip K. Dick (has pubs in German)
• Charles Platt
• Edgar Pangborn
• John Crowley (has pubs in German)
• Gardner Dozois, as a writer
• Monica Hughes
• Pierre Boulle
• Michael Crichton (has pubs in German)
• Ian Watson
• T. J. Bass
• Michael Bishop
• John Sladek
• C. L. Moore
• Stanley G. Weinbaum
• Joanna Russ
• Vonda N. McIntyre (has pubs in German)
• Stephen Baxter
• James Blish
• C. J. Cherryh
• A. E. van Vogt
• Alexei Panshin
• Adam Roberts
• M. John Harrison
• William Gibson (has pubs in German)
• A. A. Attanasio
• Robert Sheckley
• William C. Dietz
• Patrick Tilley
• Daniel F. Galouye
• Charles Sheffield
• Ben Bova
• Jack Finney (has pubs in German)
• Aldous Huxley
• George Orwell
• John Wyndham
• H. G. Wells
• Walter M. Miller Jr.
• Robert Anton Wilson
• Anne Rice
• Manly Wade Wellman
• Richard Matheson
• James Herbert (has pubs in German)
• Thomas Harris
• Frank Herbert (has pubs in German)
• James Gunn
• L. Neil Smith (has pubs in German)
• Peter F. Hamilton
• Alan Dean Foster (has pubs in German)
• Anne McCaffrey
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Ambrose Bierce
• Jane Yolen, as editor
• George R. Stewart
• Lois McMaster Bujold
• Stephen R. Donaldson (has pubs in German)
• Arthur W. Saha, as editor
• Martin H. Greenberg, as editor
• C. S. Lewis
• Lewis Carroll
• Ray Bradbury (has pubs in German)
• Roger Zelazny
• Patricia A. McKillip
• Elizabeth A. Lynn
• Raymond E. Feist
• Christopher Priest
• Sheri S. Tepper
• Terry Pratchett (has pubs in German)
• Randall Garrett
• Michael Kurland
• Freda Warrington (has pubs in German)
• Robin Hobb
• Fritz Leiber (has pubs in German)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Terry Brooks
• Joy Chant
• Diana L. Paxson (has pubs in German)
• Susanna Clarke
• Katharine Kerr
• L. Sprague de Camp
• Fletcher Pratt
• Robert Jordan
• Tad Williams (has pubs in German)
• Thieves' World (all pubs in German)
• Angie Sage
• Margaret Weis
• Tracy Hickman
• J. K. Rowling
• Cordwainer Smith
• Ursula K. Le Guin (has pubs in German)
• Brian W. Aldiss (has pubs in German)
• Theodore Sturgeon
• Algis Budrys
• Joe Haldeman
• John Brunner (has pubs in German)
• Samuel R. Delany
• Iain M. Banks
• Kim Stanley Robinson
• Gordon R. Dickson
• Hal Clement
• Orson Scott Card
• Clifford D. Simak
• Robert A. Heinlein (has pubs in German)
• Arthur C. Clarke (has pubs in German)
• Isaac Asimov (has pubs in German)
• Fredric Brown
• Tom Purdom
• Poul Anderson
• Neal Stephenson
• Alastair Reynolds
• David Brin
• Greg Bear
• Gene Wolfe
• Robert Silverberg
• Philip José Farmer (has pubs in German)
• Larry Niven (has pubs in German)
• Jerry Pournelle
• Jack Williamson
• Octavia E. Butler
• Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Joan D. Vinge
• Jack McDevitt
• Ken MacLeod
• Geoff Ryman
• Walter Tevis
• Robert Asprin (has pubs in German)
• Robert Lynn Asprin
• Lynn Abbey
• Kate Wilhelm
• Neil Gaiman
• Catherine Asaro
• Elizabeth R. Wollheim, as editor
• Sheila E. Gilbert, as editor
• Kevin J. Anderson, as editor
• Paul J. McAuley
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Christopher Tolkien, as editor
• Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull
• Humphrey Carpenter
• Michael White
• Tom Shippey
• Randel Helms
• Henry N. Beard
• Douglas C. Kenney
• Stephen King (has pubs in German)
• Vernor Vinge
• Keith Roberts
• Greg Egan
• Daniel Keyes
• Eric Frank Russell
• Pat Cadigan
• Sean Wallace, as editor
• Guy Haley
• Damon Knight
• Cixin Liu
• Edmund Crispin, as editor
• H. L. Gold, as editor
• E. E. "Doc" Smith
• Chad Oliver
• Bruce Sterling
• Sam Moskowitz, as editor
• Amabel Williams-Ellis
• Michael Pearson
• John Clute, both as editor and author
• Peter Nicholls, as editor
• John Grant, as editor
• Wolfgang Jeschke, as editor
• William Golding
• Piers Anthony
• Neal Asher
• James S. A. Corey
• August Derleth, as editor
• Thomas M. Disch

Cover artists

The following list contains information about cover artists that are not credited but have been identified by other means (e.g. a signature).

• Peter Elson (website). Signature consists of initials "PE" (but actually looks like "PB"). Publication examples: Deathworld 3.
• Eddie Jones. Cover art may be signed "Eddie Jones". Publication examples: The Syndic.
• Darrell K. Sweet. Signature consists of initials "DKS". Publication examples: Heechee Rendezvous.
• Boris Vallejo. Signature is "Boris". Publication examples: Gateway.
• Chris Foss: Signature is a boxed "F". Publication examples: A Case of Conscience.
• Victor Kalin: Cover art may be signed "Victor Kalin". Publication examples: The Stars are Ours.
• Donato Giancola: Signature is "DONATO". Publication examples: The Incredible Shrinking Man.
• Alan Morgan: Signature is "AM". Publication examples: Phthor.

Also check out the artist signature images available on the ISFDB.