Publication: Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science

Publication: Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and SciencePublication Record # 152421
Editors: Gregory Benford, George Zebrowski
Date: 2000-04-00
ISBN: 0-15-100292-4 [978-0-15-100292-4]
Publisher: Harcourt
Price:
$28.00^?$: US dollar
Pages: 355
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science (2000) • by Chesley Bonestell
Notes:
- Stated "First Edition"
- First printing by letter line H G F E D C B A
- The printing date is not stated. The copy right date is "2000". Locus1 is the source of the April 2000 publication date used in this ISFDB publication record. Amazon reports April 21, 2000.
- Between pages 164 and 165 is "A Picture of Skylife" which is a set of eight glossy color pages with illustrations. These have been listed in ISFDB's contents as appearing on pages i to viii. The "A Picture of Skylife" title comes from the publication's Contents page though is not used in the body of the publication.
- The six stories by Arthur C. Clarke on pages 57 to 76 have a collective title "The Other Side of the Sky" and are printed without page breaks at the start of each story
- 'Jacket art "Spherical Space Station under Construction in Earth Orbit" by Chesley Bonestell' on rear flap, no visible signature on the artwork [the whole painting, in miniature and in mirror-image is repeated on the back cover]
- $42.00 in Canada
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 42296597

Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page

Anthology Title: Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science • anthology by Gregory Benford and George Zebrowski

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i • Cover: Analog, September 1962 • (1962) • interior artwork by George Solonevich [as by Solonevich]
ii • The Thousand-Year Ark • (1953) • interior artwork by Alex Schomburg
iii • The Problem of Space Flying (Cover: Scienc Wonder Stories, August, 1929) • (1929) • interior artwork by Frank R. Paul
iv • Across the Space Frontier • (1953) • interior artwork by Chesley Bonestell
vi • The High Frontier (interior of rotating Bernal Sphere) • (1978) • interior artwork by Donald Doris
vii • The High Frontier (interior of 20x4 mile space colony) • (1976) • interior artwork by Donald Doris
viii • The World Inside (Cover: The Sunspacers Trilogy) • (1996) • interior artwork by Bob Eggleton
1 • Introduction: We All Live in the Sky • essay by Gregory Benford and George Zebrowski
31 • The End of the Beginning • (1956) • short story by Ray Bradbury
37 • Bigger Than Worlds • [Science Fact (Analog)] • (1974) • essay by Larry Niven
57 • Special Delivery • [The Other Side of the Sky] • (1957) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
61 • Feathered Friend • [The Other Side of the Sky] • (1957) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
64 • Take a Deep Breath • [The Other Side of the Sky] • (1957) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
67 • Freedom of Space • [The Other Side of the Sky] • (1957) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
70 • Passer By • [The Other Side of the Sky] • (1957) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Passer-By)
73 • The Call of the Stars • [The Other Side of the Sky] • (1957) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
77 • Tank Farm • novelette by David Brin (variant of Tank-Farm Dynamo 1983)
97 • Breakaway, Backdown • (1996) • short story by James Patrick Kelly
107 • The Wind from a Burning Woman • [Thistledown] • (1978) • novelette by Greg Bear
137 • View from a Height • (1978) • short story by Joan D. Vinge
153 • The Voyage That Lasted Six Hundred Years • (1940) • novelette by Don Wilcox (variant of The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years)
187 • Redeemer • (1979) • short story by Gregory Benford
199 • Bindlestiff • [Cities in Flight] • (1950) • novelette by James Blish
241 • Open Loops • novelette by Stephen Baxter
269 • Spomelife: The Universe and the Future • (1965) • essay by Isaac Asimov (variant of There's No Place Like Spome)
289 • Reef • [The Quiet War] • novelette by Paul J. McAuley
321 • A Dream of Time • short story by George Zebrowski
333 • Space Stations and Space Habitats: A Selective Bibliography • essay by Gary Westfahl
343 • About the Authors (Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science) • essay by George Zebrowski
347 • About the Artists (Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science) • essay by George Zebrowski
351 • About the Editors (Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science) • essay by George Zebrowski
353 • Permissions Acknowledgments (Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science) • essay by George Zebrowski

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Publication: Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science

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