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Title: The Deserter

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Title: The Deserter Title Record # 45606
Author: William Tenn
Date: 1953-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: During a long war with Jupiter, one enemy soldier decides to defect to Earth. A former POW, who is all too familiar with the Jovians' method of communication, is sent to ask it why.
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Current Tags: interplanetary war (1), Jupiter (1), science fiction (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1967 Italian Intelligenza col nemico
1973Translated by Marcel Battin
French Le déserteur
1973Translated by Yoma Cap
German Der Deserteur

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Star Science Fiction Stories 1953-02-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books H 16
$1.50?$: US dollar
[2]+
202+
[3]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Richard Powers Checkmark
Star Science Fiction Stories 1953-02-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 16
$0.35?$: US dollar
[8]+
202
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
Star Science Fiction Stories 1953-04-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 16
$0.35?$: US dollar
202
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
Star Science Fiction Stories 1954-00-00 ed. Frederik Pohl T. V. Boardman  
8/6?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).
207
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Wayne Pagram  
Star Science Fiction Stories 1961-07-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 521K
$0.35?$: US dollar
203
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
La guerra è sempre la guerra 1967-11-00 ed. Ruggero Leonardi De Carlo Editore (Italy)  
Lit 4,000?Lit: Italian lira
393
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Ferruccio Alessandri Checkmark
The Wooden Star 1968-06-00 William Tenn Ballantine Books U6133
$0.75?$: US dollar
251
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 Checkmark
The Wooden Star 1968-06-00 William Tenn Ballantine Books U6133
C$0.75?C$: Canadian dollar
251
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 Checkmark
The Wooden Star 1971-07-00 William Tenn Ballantine Books (UK) 0-345-02131-2
£0.30?£: UK pound
251
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 Checkmark
Bug-Eyed Monsters 1972-00-00 ed. Anthony Cheetham Sidgwick & Jackson 0-283-97864-3   280
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 1 1972-11-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 0-345-02717-5
$0.95?$: US dollar
196
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 Berkey Checkmark
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 1 1972-11-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Ballantine Books 0-345-02717-5
C$0.95?C$: Canadian dollar
195
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 Berkey Checkmark
Fiction, #232 1973-04-00 ed.
Alain Dorémieux?Alain Doremieux
OPTA  
F5.00?F: French frank
196
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 Bertrand (I) Checkmark
Null-P 1973-07-00 William Tenn Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3349) 3349
DM 2.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
141
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 Atelier Frank & Zaugg Checkmark
Bug-Eyed Monsters 1974-06-00 ed. Anthony Cheetham Panther 0-586-03990-2
£0.40?£: UK pound
255
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 Bruce Pennington Checkmark
The Wooden Star 1981-08-00 William Tenn Del Rey / Ballantine 0-345-29306-1
$2.25?$: US dollar
251
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 H. R. Van Dongen Checkmark
Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 1 2001-02-00 William Tenn NESFA Press 1-886778-19-1
$29.00?$: US dollar
vii+
618
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll H. R. Van Dongen  
Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 1 2001-07-00 William Tenn NESFA Press 1-886778-19-1
$29.00?$: US dollar
vii+
618
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll H. R. Van Dongen Checkmark
Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 1 2002-09-00 William Tenn NESFA Press / SFBC 52644
$14.50?$: US dollar
618
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll H. R. Van Dongen Checkmark
The Wooden Star 2013-07-00 William Tenn Gateway / Orion 978-0-575-12925-2
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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