Title: You're All Alone
Title Record # 11452
Author: Fritz Leiber
Date: 1953-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: Fritz Leiber
Date: 1953-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Note: According to "Author's Afterword" in the October 1980 Pocket edition, Leiber began writing this, his third, novel in January 1943. He expected that it would be about 40,000 word long and that it would be sold to John W. Campbell Jr. for publication in "Unknown". However, when he sent the first 4 chapters to Campbell, Campbell informed him that "Unknown" was to be discontinued shortly. Since there was no other viable market for novel length pulp fantasy at the time, Leiber stopped working on the novel.
After WWII, William Sloan Associates began publishing novel length fantasy in book form and Leiber resumed work on the novel, hoping to sell it to them. However, by the time he expanded it to 75,000 words 4 years later, William Sloan Associates had discontinued publishing fantasy due to poor sales.
Leiber sent the finished novel to the editors of "Fantastic Adventures", who agreed to buy it if Leiber could cut it to 40,000 words. Instead Leiber set the 75,000 word manuscript aside, went back to his original 1943 plan for a 40,000 word short novel and recreated it as a parallel text. It was published by "Fantastic Adventures" in July 1950 as "You're All Alone".
The 75,000 word version was eventually purchased by Universal Publishers and Distributors in 1953 for publication as one half of a paperback double. Because of the way the contract was worded, the publisher could make any changes it wanted without Leiber's consent. The result was that the text was slightly changed and the title was changed to "The Sinful Ones". In addition, the publisher added "sexed up" chapter titles like "The Strip Tease" and "Bleached Prostitute" and "sexed up" a few love scenes in the book.
In 1972, Ace reprinted the 40,000 word version and two other novelettes in a collection also titled "You're All Alone".
In the late 1970s, Leiber repurchased the rights to the 75,000 word version and it was reprinted by Pocket in October 1980. Leiber left the 1953 titles, but restored the mangled text from memory since the original manuscript had been lost. He also rewrote the sex scenes to bring the language up to date. The Gregg Press edition, which came out in December 1980, reprinted the Pocket version.
It is highly probable that the 2010 Armchair Fiction edition reprints the 1950 Fantastic Adventures magazine version.
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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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Fantastic Adventures, July 1950 | 1950-07-00 | ed. Howard Browne | Ziff-Davis Publishing Company | $0.25?$: US dollar |
164 | pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75 |
mag | Robert Gibson Jones | ||
The Sinful Ones / Bulls, Blood and Passion | 1953-00-00 | Fritz Leiber | Universal (US) (Universal Giant) | G5 | $0.50?$: US dollar |
191+ 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. |
omni | ||
Fantastic Adventures No. 21 | 1953-08-00 | ed. Howard Browne | Hermitage Publications | 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). |
100 | pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75 |
mag | Robert Gibson Jones | ||
Fantastic, November 1966 | 1966-11-00 | ed. Joseph Ross | Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc. | $0.50?$: 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 | Bob Hilbreth | ||
You're All Alone | 1972-05-00 | Fritz Leiber | Ace Books | 95146 | $0.95?$: US dollar |
191 | 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 | Jack Woolhiser | |
La grande machine | 1978-09-00 | Fritz Leiber | Casterman (Autres temps, autres mondes) | 2-203-22711-7 | 211 | 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. |
coll | Jean-Louis Séchet | ||
The Sinful Ones | 1980-10-00 | Fritz Leiber | Pocket Books | 0-671-83575-0 | $1.95?$: 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 | Michael Whelan | |
The Sinful Ones | 1980-10-00 | Fritz Leiber | Pocket Books | 0-671-83575-0 | C$2.25?C$: 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 | Michael Whelan | |
The Sinful Ones | 1980-10-00 | Fritz Leiber | Pocket Books | $0.00?$: US dollar |
176 | quarto?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued |
novel | |||
The Sinful Ones | 1980-12-00 | Fritz Leiber | Gregg Press | 0-8398-2643-5 | $13.95?$: US dollar |
xii+ 176 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
Die Sündhaften | 1982-00-00 | Fritz Leiber | Hohenheim (Edition SF im Hohenheim Verlag) | 3-8147-0026-0 | DM 26.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
230 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Oliviero Berni | |
The Sinful Ones | 1986-01-00 | Fritz Leiber | Baen | 0-671-65549-3 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
250 | 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 | Victoria Poyser | |
Urania #1015 | 1986-02-02 | ed. Gianni Montanari | Mondadori | 1015 | Lit 3,000?Lit: Italian lira |
160 | 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 | Karel Thole | |
You're All Alone | 1990-10-00 | Fritz Leiber | Carroll & Graf (Masters of Fantasy) | 0-88184-679-1 | $3.95?$: US dollar |
191 | 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 | Victoria Poyser | |
Scacco al tempo | 1992-03-00 | Fritz Leiber | Mondadori (Classici Urania #180) | Lit 6,000?Lit: Italian lira |
224 | 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 | M. Sullivan | ||
The Sinful Ones | 2008-02-00 | Fritz Leiber | Wildside Press | 978-1-4344-9872-4 | $24.95?$: US dollar |
176 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
The Sinful Ones | 2008-02-01 | Fritz Leiber | Wildside Press | 978-1-4344-9871-7 | $13.95?$: US dollar |
180 | 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 | ||
You're All Alone / The Liquid Man | 2010-12-28 | uncredited | Armchair Fiction (Armchair Sci-Fi & Horror Double Novels #3) | 978-1-61287-002-1 / D-3 | $12.95?$: US dollar |
216 | 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. |
omni | Robert Gibson Jones | |
You're All Alone | date unknown | Fritz Leiber | Ace Books | 95146 | $0.95?$: US dollar |
191 | 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 | Jack Woolhiser |
Reviews
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1981) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, April 27, 1981
- Review by Michael E. Stamm (1986) in Fantasy Review, April 1986
- Review by David Pringle (1988) in Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels , reprinted in:
- Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels (1988)
- Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels (1989)
- Review by James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock (1988) in Fantasy: The 100 Best Books , reprinted in:
- Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1988)
- Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1988)
- Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1991)
- Review by Tom Tesarek (2020) in Pulp Horror: All Reviews Special Edition