Title: Empire
Title Record # 2873162
Authors: John W. Campbell, Jr. and Clifford D. Simak
Date: 1951-00-00
Type: NOVEL
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Language: English
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Authors: John W. Campbell, Jr. and Clifford D. Simak
Date: 1951-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: librivox.org
Language: English
Note: According to a Simak interview published in Muriel R. Becker's Clifford D. Simak: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1980), the first version of this novel was written by John W. Campbell, Jr. when Campbell was "something like eighteen years old", i.e. in the late 1920s. That version remains unpublished.
After Campbell, then the editor of ''Astounding'', serialized Simak's "Cosmic Engineers" in early 1939, he gave the manuscript of ''Empire'' to Simak to see if Simak could rewrite it. Simak did rewrite the novel, but Campbell decided that the new version wasn't suitable for publication either.
In 1951 H. L. Gold, the editor of the SF magazine ''Galaxy'', was looking for material for his Galaxy Science Fiction Novel series of standalone novels. He had heard about ''Empire'' from Campbell and approached Simak to see if he could buy it. Simak asked Campbell if Campbell wanted to share the credit and the money, but Campbell refused. In the end, ''Empire'' appeared in ''Galaxy Science Fiction Novel #7'' as by Simak alone.
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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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Empire | 1951-00-00 | Clifford D. Simak | World Editions, Inc. (Galaxy Science Fiction Novel #7) | 7 | $0.35?$: US dollar |
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". |
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Empire | 1959-04-13 | Clifford D. Simak | Pabel ( Utopia Großband?Utopia Grossband #97) |
UGB097 | DM 1.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
95 | 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". |
novel | Ed Emshwiller | |
Empire | 2009-02-28 | Clifford D. Simak | Project Gutenberg | 28215 | $0.00?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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Empire | 2010-07-01 | Clifford D. Simak | Bottom of the Hill Publishing | 978-1-935785-56-9 | $11.99?$: US dollar |
160 | 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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Startling Stories, Summer 2010 | 2010-07-08 | ed. William L. Carney, Jr. | Wild Cat Books | 978-0-9844765-3-4 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
210 | 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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Empire: With Hellhounds of the Cosmos! | 2010-10-27 | Clifford D. Simak | Resurrected Press | 978-1-935774-46-4 | $12.99?$: US dollar |
262 | 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 | ||
Empire | 2011-01-15 | Clifford D. Simak | Benediction Classics | 978-1-84902-550-8 | £19.99?£: UK pound |
150 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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Empire | 2012-01-27 | Clifford D. Simak | LibriVox | $0.00?$: US dollar |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
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Empire | 2012-06-11 | Clifford D. Simak | CreateSpace | 978-1-4775-8704-1 | $8.99?$: US dollar |
144 | 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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Empire | 2013-09-30 | Clifford D. Simak | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-12236-9 | £2.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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The Fourth Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack: Clifford D. Simak | 2014-06-05 | Clifford D. Simak | Wildside Press | 978-1-4794-0300-4 | $0.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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The Country Beyond the Curve / Empire | 2015-09-29 | ed. uncredited | Armchair Fiction (Armchair Sci-Fi & Horror Double Novels #167) | 978-1-61287-281-0 / D-167 | $12.95?$: US dollar |
224 | 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 | Edward Valigursky | |
The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack #1 | 2016-02-05 | ed. uncredited | Positronic Publishing | 978-1-5154-0363-0 | $1.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Atelier Sommerland | ||
The Science Fiction Novel Super Pack #1 | 2016-03-10 | ed. uncredited | Start Publishing | 978-1-68299-956-1 | $1.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Yumikrum | ||
Empire | 2017-05-29 | Clifford Simak | Didactic Press | 978-1-5470-2720-0 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
212 | 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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Reviews
- Review [French] by Guy Sirois (2001) in Bifrost, #22