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Title: Gateway to Strangeness Title Record # 57673
Author: Jack Vance
Date: 1962-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1962 Dust of Far Suns
1962 Sail 25
Year Language Title
1964Translated by Adalberto Chiesa
Italian La vela dello spazio
1965 German Raumsegler 25
1980Translated by Jaime Martijn
Dutch Zeil 25
1981Translated by Tony Westermayr
German Minuspunkte
1982Translated by Loredana Longhini
Italian Vela 25
1984Translated by Eva Malsch
German Segler 25
1985Translated by Lore Strassl
German
Raumsegler Fünfundzwanzig?Raumsegler Fuenfundzwanzig
1993Translated by ECL Meistermann
French Les portes de l'ailleurs
2003 Italian Nave scuola 25
2003Translated by Fabio Feminò
Italian Vela 25
2019Translated by E. C. L. Meistermann revised by Pierre-Paul Durastanti
French Les portes de l'ailleurs

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Amazing Stories, August 1962 1962-08-00 ed. Cele Goldsmith Ziff-Davis Publishing Company  
$0.35?$: US dollar
132
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 Alex Schomburg Checkmark
Future Tense 1964-06-00 Jack Vance Ballantine Books U2214
C$0.50?C$: Canadian dollar
160
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
Future Tense 1964-06-00 Jack Vance Ballantine Books U2214
$0.50?$: US dollar
160
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
Great Science Fiction, Fall 1967 1967-09-00 ed. uncredited Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc.  
$0.50?$: US dollar
132
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 Leo Summers Checkmark
The Best of Jack Vance 1976-05-00 Jack Vance Pocket Books 0-671-80510-X
$1.95?$: US dollar
x+
274
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 Charles Moll Checkmark
The Best of Jack Vance 1978-08-00 Jack Vance Taplinger 0-8008-0726-X
$9.95?$: US dollar
x+
274
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
The Best of Jack Vance 1979-08-00 Jack Vance Pocket Books 0-671-83070-8
C$2.50?C$: Canadian dollar
x+
274
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 David Schleinkofer Checkmark
The Best of Jack Vance 1979-08-00 Jack Vance Pocket Books 0-671-83070-8
$2.25?$: US dollar
xii+
274
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 David Schleinkofer Checkmark
The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction 1980-11-00 ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Fawcett Crest 0-449-24349-4
$2.50?$: US dollar
317
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 Jerome Podwil Checkmark
Dust of Far Suns 1981-01-00 Jack Vance DAW Books (DAW Collectors #417) 0-87997-588-1
$1.75?$: US dollar
160
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 Paul Chadwick (1957-) Checkmark
Dust of Far Suns 1981-01-00 Jack Vance DAW Books / New American Library of Canada 0-87997-588-1 / UE1588
C$1.95?C$: Canadian dollar
160
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 Paul Chadwick (1957-) Checkmark
The Seven Deadly Sins of Science Fiction 1981-03-00 ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Fawcett Crest / SFBC 5837
$2.98?$: US dollar
ix+
269
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Larry Kresek Checkmark
The Seven Deadly Sins and Cardinal Virtues of Science Fiction 1982-00-00 Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers 0-517-38595-3   317+
350
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni Checkmark
The Best of Jack Vance 1982-05-00 Jack Vance Timescape / Pocket Books 0-671-44186-8
$2.95?$: US dollar
x+
274
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
Amazing Stories: Visions of Other Worlds 1986-09-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg TSR 0-88038-302-X
$7.95?$: US dollar
253
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
When the Five Moons Rise 1992-09-00 Jack Vance Underwood-Miller 0-88733-145-9
$29.95?$: US dollar
252
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Vincent Di Fate Checkmark
When the Five Moons Rise 1992-09-00 Jack Vance Underwood-Miller 0-88733-145-9   252
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Bootcamp 3000 1992-09-00 ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Ace Books 0-441-53168-7
$4.99?$: US dollar
xii+
273
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 Bob Eggleton  
The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume Three 2001-06-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Tor 0-312-86877-4
$25.95?$: US dollar
477
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 3 2002-04-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Tor 0-312-86876-6
$16.95?$: US dollar
477
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  
Gadget Stories 2005-00-00 Jack Vance Vance Integral Edition (Vance Integral Edition #3) 0-9712375-1-4   [viii]+
738
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
The Jack Vance Treasury 2007-01-00 Jack Vance Subterranean Press 1-59606-077-8
$38.00?$: US dollar
633
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Gnemo  
The Jack Vance Treasury 2007-01-00 Jack Vance Subterranean Press / SFBC 1226398
$16.99?$: US dollar
631
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Gnemo Checkmark
The Jack Vance Treasury 2007-01-00 Jack Vance Subterranean Press 1-59606-077-8
$125.00?$: US dollar
631
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Gnemo  
The Jack Vance Treasury 2007-01-00 Jack Vance Subterranean Press 1-59606-077-8
$300.00?$: US dollar
633
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Gnemo Checkmark
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction 2011-06-00 ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman Wildside Press 978-1-4344-3079-3
$49.99?$: US dollar
991
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  
The Potter of Firsk and Other Stories 2011-11-24 Jack Vance Gateway / Orion 978-0-575-10988-9
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction 2011-12-20 ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman Wildside Press 978-1-4344-4035-8
$39.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth Checkmark
The Jack Vance Treasury 2013-12-05 Jack Vance Subterranean Press 978-1-59606-647-2
$4.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Gnemo  
Spaceworlds: Stories of Life in the Void 2021-03-25 ed. Mike Ashley British Library Publishing (British Library Science Fiction Classics) 978-0-7123-6718-9
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth  
Spaceworlds: Stories of Life in the Void 2021-03-25 ed. Mike Ashley British Library Publishing (British Library Science Fiction Classics) 978-0-7123-5309-0
£9.99?£: UK pound
336
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  
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