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Title: What's the Name of That Town? Title Record # 59023
Author: R. A. Lafferty
Date: 1964-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Institute for Impure Science
Language: English
Synopsis: A researcher who believes he has found a strange historical mystery consults a superintelligent computer for help.
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Current Tags: artificial intelligence (1), memory (1), catastrophe (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1972Translated by F. Lancel
Dutch Hoe heette die stad ook weer?
1974Translated by Karl H. Kosmehl
German Wie heißt diese Stadt?
1980 Italian Come si chiamava quella città?
1981Translated by 浅倉久志
Japanese
その町の名は??そのまちのなは?
Sono Machi no Na ha?
Sono Machi no Na wa?
[as by ]
1984Translated by Elisabeth Vonarburg
French Comment elle s'appelle, déjà, cette ville ?

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Galaxy Magazine, October 1964 1964-10-00 ed. Frederik Pohl Galaxy Publishing Corporation  
$0.50?$: US dollar
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 Schelling Checkmark
Science Fiction Oddities 1966-11-00 ed. Groff Conklin Berkley Medallion S1311
$0.75?$: US dollar
256
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 Don Punchatz Checkmark
Science Fiction Oddities 1969-06-00 ed. Groff Conklin Rapp & Whiting 0-85391-082-0
21/-?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).
x+
156
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Nine Hundred Grandmothers 1970-00-00 R. A. Lafferty Ace Books (Ace SF Special, Series 1 #58050) 58050
$0.95?$: US dollar
318
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 Checkmark
Negenhonderd grootmoeders 1972-00-00 R. A. Lafferty Meulenhoff (M=SF #50) 90-290-0094-5   320
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 Bouke IJlstra Checkmark
900 Grossmütter Band 2 1974-07-00 R. A. Lafferty Fischer Taschenbuch (Fischer Orbit #39) 3-436-01921-6
DM 3.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
154
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 Eddie Jones Checkmark
Nine Hundred Grandmothers 1975-05-00 R. A. Lafferty Dennis Dobson 0-234-77286-7
£3.50?£: UK pound
318
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Inside Information: Computers in Fiction 1977-00-00 ed. Abbe Mowshowitz Addison-Wesley 0-201-04929-5
$7.95?$: US dollar
xxiii+
345
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  
Urania #855 1980-09-28 ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini Mondadori 855
Lit 1,000?Lit: Italian lira
168
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 Karel Thole  
九百人のお祖母さん?きゅうひゃくにんのおばあさん
Kyūhyakkunin no Obaasan
Kyuuhyakkunin no Obaasan
1981-02-28
早川書房?Hayakawa Shobō
Hayakawa Shobo
はやかわしょぼう
ハヤカワショボウ
(
海外SFノヴェルズ?Kaigai SF Noveruzu
)
    368
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll
畑農照雄?はたのてるお
Hatano Teruo
 
Nine Hundred Grandmothers 1982-01-00 R. A. Lafferty Ace Books 0-441-58051-3
$2.50?$: US dollar
318
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 Mikolaycak Checkmark
Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: R. A. Lafferty 1984-10-00 R. A. Lafferty Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Science Fiction #5187) 2-266-01444-7   344
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 Marcel Laverdet Checkmark
九百人のお祖母さん?きゅうひゃくにんのおばあさん
Kyūhyakkunin no Obaasan
Kyuuhyakkunin no Obaasan
1988-02-15
早川書房?Hayakawa Shobō
Hayakawa Shobo
はやかわしょぼう
ハヤカワショボウ
(
ハヤカワ文庫SF?Hayakawa Bunko SF
#757)
4-15-010757-2   539
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
横山えいじ?Eiji Yokoyama
 
Fantastic Chicago 1991-08-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg Chicon V  
$15.00?$: US dollar
136
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 Richard Powers  
So frustrieren wir Karl den Grossen 1993-00-00 R. A. Lafferty Heyne (Bibliothek der Science Fiction Literatur #89) 3-453-06243-4
DM 16.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
383
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 Gervasio Gallardo Checkmark
Nine Hundred Grandmothers 1999-00-00 R. A. Lafferty Wildside Press 1-880448-97-1
$15.00?$: US dollar
318
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 Checkmark
Nine Hundred Grandmothers 2016-01-29 R. A. Lafferty Gateway / Orion 978-1-4732-1366-1
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Man Who Never Was 2021-03-14 R. A. Lafferty Centipede Press 978-1-61347-266-8
$65.00?$: US dollar
383
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Jacob McMurray Checkmark
The Man Who Never Was 2021-03-14 R. A. Lafferty Centipede Press 978-1-61347-266-8
$65.00?$: US dollar
383
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Jacob McMurray Checkmark
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