Title: Asleep: With Still Hands

Title: Asleep: With Still Hands Title Record # 54267
Author: Harlan Ellison
Date: 1968-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English

Synopsis: Six hundred years after peace is established on Earth by giving "the Sleeper", a human/machine hybrid, the ability to suppress all violent thoughts; two adversarial factions, having concluded that this has led to stagnation, discover how to shield their thoughts and each strive to deactivate the Sleeper for all humanity, while engaging in mutual deadly combat.

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Year	Title
1968	The Sleeper with Still Hands

Year	Language	Title
1969	French	Le dormeur aux mains calmes
1977^ⓘTranslated by Ef Leonard	Dutch	Slapend, met roerloze handen

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
If, July 1968	1968-07-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Galaxy Publishing Corporation		$0.60^?$: 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	Gray Morrow
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	1969-07-00	Harlan Ellison	Avon	V2300	$0.75^?$: US dollar	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.	coll	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	1969-07-00	Harlan Ellison	Avon	V2300	C$0.75^?C$: Canadian dollar	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.	coll	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon
Galaxie (2ème série), #64	1969-09-00	ed. Alain Dorémieux^?Alain Doremieux	OPTA		F3.00^?F: French frank	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	Ed Emshwiller
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	1970-03-00	Harlan Ellison	Avon / SFBC	2187		245	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	1974-04-00	Harlan Ellison	Signet / New American Library	Y5870	$1.25^?$: US dollar	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.	coll	Bob Pepper
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	1974-04-00	Harlan Ellison	Signet / New American Library of Canada	Y5870	C$1.25^?C$: Canadian dollar	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.	coll	Bob Pepper
Mourir au futur	1976-03-11	ed. Philippe R. Hupp	10/18^?Dix/Dix-huit ( #1048)	2-264-00038-4		316	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	Pierre Bernard
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	1976-07-00	Harlan Ellison	Millington	0-86000-065-6	£3.50^?£: UK pound	vi+ 215	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	1976-07-00	Harlan Ellison	Signet	W7235	$1.50^?$: US dollar	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.	coll	Bob Pepper
Hoe kan ik schreeuwen zonder mond	1977-00-00	Harlan Ellison	Bruna (Bruna SF #53)	90-229-9053-2		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	Victor Linford
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	1979-00-00	Harlan Ellison	Signet / New American Library	0-451-08590-6	$1.75^?$: US dollar	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.	coll	Bob Pepper
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	1979-09-00	Harlan Ellison	Pan Books	0-330-25575-4	£0.90^?£: UK pound	215	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	Stuart Hughes (artist)
La bête qui criait amour au coeur du monde	1979-10-22	Harlan Ellison	Les Humanoïdes Associés (Harlan Ellison : Oeuvres #3)	2-7316-0006-3		292	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	Keleck
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	1984-11-00	Harlan Ellison	Bluejay Books (Bluejay Special Edition)	0-312-94027-0	$6.95^?$: US dollar	252	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	Barclay Shaw
Edgeworks 4: Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled / The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	1997-11-00	Harlan Ellison	White Wolf Publishing	1-56504-963-2 / WW 11953	$21.99^?$: US dollar	xx+ xxx+ 350+ xxii+	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	John K. Snyder, III
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	2012-03-05	Harlan Ellison	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-12361-8	£2.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	2014-04-01	Harlan Ellison	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-4976-0488-9	$7.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	2014-06-03	Harlan Ellison	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-4976-4288-1	$14.99^?$: US dollar	300	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

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