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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 |
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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 |
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Gladiator-at-Law | Frederik Pohl C. M. Kornbluth |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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...
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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 |
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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. |
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 |
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Fire Sea | Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman |
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Serpent Mage | Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman |
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The Hand of Chaos | Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman |
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Into the Labyrinth | Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman |
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The Seventh Gate | Margaret Weis Tracy Hickman |
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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 | |
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 |
Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | |
Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | |
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 | |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | Pat Cadigan | Trade paperback |
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 |
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 |
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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, as editor
- Peter Nicholls, as editor
- John Grant, as editor
- Wolfgang Jeschke, as editor
- William Golding
- Piers Anthony
- Neal Asher
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.