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Title: Beyond the Barrier Title Record # 9641
Author: Damon Knight
Date: 1964-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Note: Expansion of 'The Tree of Time'
Synopsis: From the front flap of the Doubleday first edition: "Gordon Naismith was a physics professor at a large California university. The year was 1980, and by means of the university's duplicator he could personally teach in nine different classrooms simultaneously. Naismith was an average man in all but two respects: the reflexes were extraordinarily quick, and four years before in a plane crash he had lost all memory of his earlier life. Neither difference seemed important until one day a very unusual student in one of his classes asked a disturbing, extracurricular question: "Professor, what is a zug?" The question triggered a series of violent incidents, and soon Naismith himself, as well as the police, were beginning to wonder if the duplicator had reproduced him a tenth time. The answer lay ten thousand years in the future."
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Other Titles

Translations Serializations Translated Serializations
Year Language Title
1973Translated by Peter Kleinert.
German Sprung über die Zeitbarriere
1977Translated by Dees Postma
Dutch Voorbij de barrière
1982Translated by Pierre Billon
French Passée la barrière du temps
Year Title
1963 The Tree of Time (Part 1 of 2)
1964 The Tree of Time (Part 2 of 2)
Year Language Title
1966 French L'arbre du temps (Part 1 of 2)
1966 French L'arbre du temps (Part 2 of 2)
1991 Italian Memoria perduta (Complete Novel)

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
Nominations Below Cutoff 1964 Hugo Best Novel

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1963 1963-12-00 ed. Avram Davidson Mercury Press, Inc.  
$0.40?$: US dollar
132
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 Ed Emsh Checkmark
Beyond the Barrier 1964-00-00 Damon Knight Doubleday  
$3.50?$: US dollar
188
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Tom Chibbaro Checkmark
Beyond the Barrier 1964-00-00 Damon Knight Gollancz (Gollancz SF Series (2))  
15/-?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).
188
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel  
Beyond the Barrier 1964-01-00 Damon Knight Doubleday / SFBC  
$1.20?$: US dollar
188
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Tom Chibbaro Checkmark
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1964 1964-01-00 ed. Avram Davidson Mercury Press, Inc.  
$0.40?$: US dollar
132
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 Ed Emsh Checkmark
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [UK], April 1964 1964-04-00 ed. uncredited Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd  
2/6?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).
116
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  
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [UK], June 1964 1964-06-00 ed. uncredited Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd  
2/6?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).
116
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 Checkmark
Beyond the Barrier 1965-00-00 Damon Knight Macfadden Books 50-234
$0.50?$: US dollar
142
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
Beyond the Barrier 1965-00-00 Damon Knight Macfadden Books 50-234
C$0.50?C$: Canadian dollar
142
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
Beyond the Barrier 1966-00-00 Damon Knight Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers GS7502
3/6?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).
123
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 Checkmark
Fiction, #155 1966-10-00 ed.
Alain Dorémieux?Alain Doremieux
OPTA  
F3.00?F: French frank
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 Gilles de Cock Checkmark
Fiction, #156 1966-11-00 ed.
Alain Dorémieux?Alain Doremieux
OPTA  
F3.00?F: French frank
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 Jean Alessandrini Checkmark
Beyond the Barrier 1970-02-00 Damon Knight Macfadden Books 60-444
$0.60?$: US dollar
142
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 Jack Faragasso Checkmark
Beyond the Barrier 1970-02-00 Damon Knight Macfadden Books 60-444
C$0.60?C$: Canadian dollar
142
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 Jack Faragasso Checkmark
Sprung über die Zeitbarriere 1973-00-00 Damon Knight
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(
Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Taschenbuch?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Taschenbuch
#27)
3-404-00114-1
DM 2.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
143
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 Eddie Jones Checkmark
Voorbij de barrière 1977-00-00 Damon Knight Gradivus (Gradivus SF) 90-6317-591-4 ƒ12.90 200
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 Paul Lehr Checkmark
Beyond the Barrier 1978-08-00 Damon Knight Hamlyn Paperbacks (Hamlyn Science Fiction) 0-600-31460-X
£0.80?£: UK pound
152
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 Peter Jones Checkmark
Passée la barrière du temps 1982-09-00 Damon Knight Robert Laffont (Ailleurs et demain - Classiques) 2-221-00938-X
F59.00?F: French frank
214
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  
Urania #1167 1991-12-01 ed. Giuseppe Lippi Mondadori 1167
Lit 5,000?Lit: Italian lira
144
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 Vicente Segrelles  
Beyond the Barrier 2013-05-06 Damon Knight Gateway / Orion 978-0-575-11125-7
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
novel  
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