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Title: The Mechanical Mice Title Record # 71451
Authors: Maurice G. Hugi and Eric Frank Russell
Date: 1941-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: According to http://www.efr.iwriter.com.au/footnote.html#mice (which no longer exists), "This was written from an idea by Russell's friend, Maurice G Hugi. Russell helped Hugi with extensive rewrites and it was first published under both their names. Later is was printed with Hugi getting sole credit, though the reasons for this are unclear...." but there is no record of an original publication using both names. Per Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age, "'The Mechanical Mice' appeared in the January 1941 Astounding under Hugi's name, at Russell's request. Hugi had never sold to an American magazine and Russell wanted to give his morale a boost. Hugi was a chronic diabetic, kept alive by frequent doses of insulin. 'His days were numbered and he knew it,' Russell recalled; getting into Astounding if only by proxy, made him happy. Hugi died a few years later."
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1941 The Mechanical Mice [as by Maurice G. Hugi]
1946 Mechanical Mice [as by Maurice G. Hugi]
1954 The Mechanical Mice [as by Maurice A. Hugi]
1966 Mechanical Mice [as by Maurice A. Hugi]
1978 The Mechanical Mice [as by Eric Frank Russell]
2001 Mechanical Mice [as by Eric Frank Russell]
Year Language Title
1957Translated by Walter K. Baumann
German
Mechanische Mäuse?Mechanische Maeuse
[as by Eric Frank Russell]
1975 German Rattennest [as by Eric Frank Russell]
1976 Italian I topi meccanici [as by Eric Frank Russell]
1981Translated by Eva Malsch
German
Mechanische Mäuse?Mechanische Maeuse
[as by Maurice A. Hugi]
1981Translated by Antonio Bellomi
Italian I topi meccanici [as by Maurice A. Hugi]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Like Nothing on Earth 1975-04-00 Eric Frank Russell Dennis Dobson (Dobson Science Fiction) 0-234-77381-2
£2.25?£: UK pound
155
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Richard Weaver (artist) Checkmark
Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age 1979-00-00 ed. Terry Carr BCA - Book Club Associates CN6459   445
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Like Nothing on Earth 1986-10-00 Eric Frank Russell Methuen 0-413-60010-6
£1.95?£: UK pound
159
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 Terry Oakes Checkmark
Men Hunting Things 1988-04-00 ed. David Drake Baen Books 0-671-65399-7
$2.95?$: US dollar
[12]+
271
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 Pat Ortega Checkmark
Men Hunting Things 1988-04-00 ed. David Drake Baen Books 0-671-65399-7
C$3.95?C$: Canadian dollar
[12]+
271
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 Pat Ortega Checkmark
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