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Title: Futility Title Record # 54683
Author: S. P. Meek
Date: 1929-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Amazing Stories, July 1929, illustrated by Clardy.
Synopsis: Available on page 286, Bleiler (Gernsback).
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1929 Futility [as by Captain S. P. Meek, U.S.A.]
1982 Futility [as by Captain S. P. Meek]
2017 Futility [as by Capt. S. P. Meek, U.S.A.]
Year Language Title
1981Translated by Sylvia Pukallus
German Unzulänglichkeit [as by Captain S. P. Meek]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Amazing Stories, July 1929 1929-07-00 ed. T. O'Conor Sloane, Ph.D. Experimenter Publishing Co.  
$0.25?$: US dollar
100
bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.
mag Hugh Mackay Checkmark
Titan 17 1981-11-00 ed. Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3847) 3-453-30776-3
DM 5.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
237
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.
anth Morris Scott Dollens Checkmark
Gosh! Wow! (Sense of Wonder) Science Fiction 1982-01-00 ed. Forrest J Ackerman Bantam Books 0-553-20187-5
$3.50?$: US dollar
xxii+
561+
[2]
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.
anth Checkmark
Sense of Wonder Science Fiction 1993-00-00 ed. Forrest J Ackerman Sirius Science Fiction 0-89556-094-1
$350.00?$: US dollar
423+
[4]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
The Best of Amazing Stories: The 1929 Anthology 2017-04-01 ed. Steve Davidson, Jean Marie Stine Experimenter Publishing Company (Amazing Stories Classics) 978-1-5465-3876-9
$14.99?$: US dollar
286
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.
anth H. W. Wesso  
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