Title: The Night Shapes
Title Record # 2892182
Authors: James Blish and Virginia Kidd
Date: 1962-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Kit Kennedy
Language: English
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Authors: James Blish and Virginia Kidd
Date: 1962-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Kit Kennedy
Language: English
Note: Fix-up of "The Snake-Headed Spectre" by Virginia Kidd and "Serpent's Fetish" by James Blish.
Synopsis: From the first page of the Ballantine first edition: "Kit Kennedy was a stateless man, unwelcome in any area of the "civilized" world. Fortunately for him, a large part of the world still remained uncivilized. In the heart of the Congo, Kit had found friends and peace. From the Africans he loved he had learned the deep satisfaction of mutual respect between man and nature. Kit was one with the world he lived in - and he couldn't risk losing any of it. But he was there only on the sufferance of the Belgian authorities.
So when the Resident Magistrate sent for him to act as guide to a semiofficial safari, Kit had no alternative but to go along with it - even though the purpose of the safari was mysterious and it members an oddly assorted group of people unlikely to have any sane objective in common.
But even Kit, long since habituated to the shocks that Africa could produce was to find himself awed and fascinated by what they found."
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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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The Night Shapes | 1962-10-00 | James Blish | Ballantine Books | F647 | $0.50?$: US dollar |
125+ [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. |
novel | Richard Powers | ![]() |
The Night Shapes | 1962-10-00 | James Blish | Ballantine Books | F647 | C$0.50?C$: Canadian dollar |
125+ [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. |
novel | Richard Powers | ![]() |
The Night Shapes | 1963-00-00 | James Blish | Four Square Books | 942 | 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). |
125+ [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. |
novel | ![]() |
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The Night Shapes | 1965-00-00 | James Blish | Four Square Books | 1305 | 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). |
125 | 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. |
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The Night Shapes | 1978-00-00 | James Blish | Arrow Books | 0-09-918400-1 | £0.80?£: UK pound |
125 | 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 | Chris Foss | ![]() |
The Night Shapes | 1979-07-00 | James Blish | Severn House | 0-7278-0463-4 | £3.95?£: UK pound |
125 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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The Night Shapes | 1983-09-00 | James Blish | Avon | 0-380-64675-7 | $2.50?$: US dollar |
125 | 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. |
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The Night Shapes | 2011-09-00 | James Blish | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-10409-9 | £4.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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Reviews
- Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1963) in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, March 1963
- Review by S. E. Cotts (1963) in Amazing Stories, April 1963
- Review by Avram Davidson (1963) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1963
- Review by Phil Stephensen-Payne [as by Philip Stephensen-Payne] (1979) in Paperback Parlour, February 1979
- Review by Robert Coulson (1984) in Amazing Science Fiction, March 1984
- Review by Martyn Taylor (1984) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 7, Number 6
- Review by Justin Marriott (2022) in Paperback Fantastic, Volume 1: Science Fiction