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Title: The Mechanical Answer

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Title: The Mechanical Answer Title Record # 57791
Author: John D. MacDonald
Date: 1948-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Year Title
1953 Mechanical Answer
Year Language Title
1959 German Vollautomatisch
1974Translated by Werner Baumann.
German Mechanische Lösung

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Astounding Science Fiction, May 1948 1948-05-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.25?$: US dollar
164
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Alejandro Checkmark
Astounding Science Fiction, April 1949 (UK) 1949-04-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd  
1/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
68
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Alejandro Checkmark
The Robot and the Man 1953-03-00 ed. Martin Greenberg Gnome Press  
$2.95?$: US dollar
251
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Ric Binkley Checkmark
The Robot and the Man 1954-00-00 ed. Martin Greenberg Grayson & Grayson  
9/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
224
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Edward Pagram  
Utopia-Science-Fiction-Magazin, #25 1959-06-01 ed. Bert Koeppen Pabel USFM25
DM 1.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
96
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Emsh Checkmark
Science-Fiction-Stories 34 1974-03-00 ed. Walter Spiegl Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 #63 (3029)) 3-548-03029-7
DM 2.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
128
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 Frazetta Checkmark
Other Times, Other Worlds 1978-10-00 John D. MacDonald Fawcett Gold Medal 0-449-14037-7
$1.95?$: US dollar
287
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.
coll Checkmark
Other Times, Other Worlds 1978-10-00 John D. MacDonald Fawcett Gold Medal 0-449-14037-7
C$1.95?C$: Canadian dollar
287
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.
coll Checkmark
Other Times, Other Worlds date unknown John D. MacDonald Fawcett Gold Medal 0-449-14037-7
$2.25?$: US dollar
287
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.
coll Checkmark
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