Big Planet
by Vance, Jack
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0575071176
- ISBN 13
- 9780575071179
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Big Planet is the first of two stand-alone science fiction novels by Jack Vance (the other being Showboat World) which share the same setting: an immense, but metal-poor and backward world called Big Planet. Big Planet was serialized in 1952 in Startling Stories, then cut and reissued in 1957 by Avalon Books It was later issued as part of Ace double novel D-295, paired with Vance's Slaves of the Klau. It was further cut in 1958. The text was restored in 1978.
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- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005491345
- Title
- Big Planet
- Author
- Vance, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0575071176
- ISBN 13
- 9780575071179
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- WHAR.456 FICTION SCIENCE SPACE OPERA, , , , , , , ,
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