Title: The Grand Wheel
Title Record # 4539
Author: Barrington J. Bayley
Date: 1977-08-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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Author: Barrington J. Bayley
Date: 1977-08-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: From the back cover of the DAW first edition: "The Grand Wheel - Cheyne Scarne was a gambler... and he took the big plunge when he bet his life to get to the inner circle of the Grand Wheel. Because the Wheel was the ultimate Syndicate - the final Mafia - that controlled all that was illegal in all the planets under human control.
But Cheyne was not to know whether he had won or lost when he gained his point. Because the Wheel had plans for him. And they made him the historic offer he could not refuse.
There was, it seemed, a similar gambling combine in the rest of the galaxy, bigger by far than the little group of stars held by Earthlings. And the Wheel wanted a cut in this. So Cheyne Scarne found himself selected to be humanity's own player in a game in which nobody knew the value of the cards and the rules of the game were infinitely variable!"
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Grand Wheel | 1977-08-00 | Barrington J. Bayley | DAW Books (DAW Collectors #255) | 0-87997-318-8 / UW1318 | $1.50?$: US dollar |
176 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Don Maitz | |
The Grand Wheel | 1977-08-00 | Barrington J. Bayley | DAW Books / New American Library of Canada | 0-87997-318-8 / UW1318 | C$1.50?C$: Canadian dollar |
176 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Don Maitz | |
The Grand Wheel | 1979-00-00 | Barrington J. Bayley | Fontana | 0-00-614863-8 | £0.80?£: UK pound |
160 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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La grande ruota | 1983-10-00 | Barrington J. Bayley | Editrice Nord (Cosmo Collana di Fantascienza #139) | Lit 5,000?Lit: Italian lira |
iv+ 170 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Michelangelo Miani | ||
The Grand Wheel | 2005-04-05 | Barrington J. Bayley | Wildside Press | 1-59224-120-4 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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The Grand Wheel | 2011-09-29 | Barrington J. Bayley | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-10210-1 | £4.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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Reviews
- Review by Richard E. Geis (1977) in Science Fiction Review, November 1977
- Review by David A. Truesdale [as by David Truesdale] (1977) in The Diversifier, #23 November 1977
- Review by Chris Evans (1978) in Vector 89
- Review by Phil Stephensen-Payne [as by Philip Stephensen-Payne] (1979) in Paperback Parlour, April 1979
- Review by Colin Greenland (1980) in Foundation, #18 January 1980