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Title: Trial Sample Title Record # 43079
Author: Ted Reynolds
Date: 1981-06-08
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: In the great brotherhood of the galaxy, the accepted way to create an alliance with another planet is for 1 person of each planet to exchange places for 1 galactic year. For this human it entails pretending to sleep hanging upside down and occasionally fly.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1984Translated by Edda Petri
German Muster ohne Wert
1985Translated by Annemarie van Ewijc
Dutch Proefmonster

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 8, 1981 1981-06-08 ed. George H. Scithers Davis Publications  
$1.50?$: US dollar
180
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 Robert Crawford Checkmark
Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World 1982-00-00 ed. Shawna McCarthy, Kathleen Moloney Davis Publications  
$2.95?$: US dollar
288
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".
anth  
Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World 1982-00-00 ed. Shawna McCarthy, Kathleen Moloney The Dial Press 0-385-27776-8
$12.95?$: US dollar
288
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11 1982-07-00 ed. Terry Carr Timescape / Pocket Books 0-671-44483-2
$3.95?$: US dollar
viii+
438
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 Checkmark
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 1982-11-00 ed. Terry Carr Gollancz 0-575-03156-5
£9.95?£: UK pound
viii+
430
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World 1983-00-00 ed. Shawna McCarthy, Kathleen Moloney Robert Hale 0-7090-1122-9
£7.95?£: UK pound
244
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Die schönsten Science Fiction Stories des Jahres: Band 2 1984-02-00 ed. Terry Carr Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4047) 3-453-30990-1
DM 9.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
526
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 Checkmark
De beste SF van het jaar 1985-00-00 ed. Terry Carr Het Spectrum (Prisma #2410) 90-274-1553-6   254
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 Tim White Checkmark
Die Wunder der Welt 1986-10-00 ed. Shawna McCarthy, Kathleen Moloney Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4332) 3-453-31325-9
DM 8.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
396
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 John Josh Kirby Checkmark
Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World date unknown ed. Shawna McCarthy, Kathleen Moloney Longmeadow Press 0-681-40031-5
$7.95?$: US dollar
288
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
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