Publication: The Ruins of Earth

Publication: The Ruins of EarthPublication Record # 285521
Editor: Thomas M. Disch
Date: 1973-02-00
ISBN: 0-09-110450-5 [978-0-09-110450-4]
Publisher: Hutchinson
Price:
£2.50^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP
Pages: 349
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: The Ruins of Earth by Chris Yates
Webpages: archive.org
Notes:
- Month from amazon.uk
- Similar to the Putnam edition of 1971 but without the Daphne du Maurier story "The Birds".
- Disch could not get the British rights for the story and wrote his own titled "The Birds".
- Contents' page numbers from ebay.co.uk copy.
- Price (front flap) and cover artist (back flap-"Jacket photograph") from Archive.org copy.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 1180259

Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page

Anthology Title: The Ruins of Earth • (1971) • anthology by Thomas M. Disch

Contents (view Concise Listing)

9 • On Saving the World • (1971) • essay by Thomas M. Disch
21 • Deer in the Works • non-genre • (1955) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
39 • Three Million Square Miles • (1971) • short story by Gene Wolfe
45 • Closing with Nature • (1970) • novelette by Norman Rush
77 • The Plot to Save the World • (1970) • short story by Michael Brownstein
85 • Autofac • (1955) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
117 • Roommates • (1971) • novelette by Harry Harrison
147 • Groaning Hinges of the World • (1971) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
161 • Gas Mask • (1964) • short story by James D. Houston
175 • Wednesday, November 15, 1967 • (1971) • short story by George Alec Effinger
191 • The Cage of Sand • (1962) • novelette by J. G. Ballard
221 • Accident Vertigo • (1971) • short story by Kenward Elmslie
229 • The Birds • short story by Thomas M. Disch
239 • Do It for Mama! • (1971) • novelette by Jerrold Mundis [as by Jerrold J. Mundis]
271 • The Dreadful Has Already Happened • (1971) • short story by Norman Kagan
297 • The Shaker Revival • (1970) • novelette by Gerald Jonas
335 • America the Beautiful • (1970) • short story by Fritz Leiber

Source	Status	Verifier	Date
Contento1 (anth/coll)	Verified	Bluesman	2009-03-29 10:03:44
OCLC/Worldcat	Verified	Bluesman	2012-08-07 16:03:21