Title: A Day for Damnation
Title Record # 2143
Author: David Gerrold
Date: 1984-05-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: War Against the Chtorr
Series Number: 2
Language: English
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Author: David Gerrold
Date: 1984-05-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: War Against the Chtorr
Series Number: 2
Language: English
Note: Revised and expanded in 1989.
In the Bantam editions each chapter begins with a quote from "Solomon Short", which according to Wikipedia was absent in the earlier Timescape Books editions.
Synopsis: In the near future, humanity is decimated by a series of plagues, after which large areas of earth are taken over by a rapidly expanding alien ecology populated by organisms so voracious that terrestrial organisms stand no chance, humans included. A graduate student is enlisted by the US military to help in the struggle to understand the workings of the alien flora and fauna and destroy them, but begins to think that perhaps those two tasks are not irrevocably linked.
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Awards
| Place | Year and Award | Category |
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| 19 | 1985 Locus | Best SF Novel |
Publications
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| A Day for Damnation | 1984-05-00 | David Gerrold | Timescape Books | 0-671-47553-3 | $16.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
382 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Boris Vallejo | |
| A Day for Damnation | 1984-05-00 | David Gerrold | Timescape Books | 0-671-49258-6 | $6.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
382 | 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. |
novel | Boris Vallejo | |
| The War Against the Chtorr: Invasion | 1984-10-00 | David Gerrold | Nelson Doubleday / SFBC | 5607 | $8.50?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
693 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | Bob Petillo | |
| A Day for Damnation | 1985-00-00 | David Gerrold | Orbit | 0-7088-8116-5 | £2.95?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
382 | 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. |
novel | Alan Craddock | |
| A Day for Damnation | 1985-02-00 | David Gerrold | Pocket Books | 0-671-45121-9 | $3.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
341 | 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. |
novel | Boris Vallejo | |
| Der Tag der Verdammnis | 1986-09-01 | David Gerrold | Heyne | 3-453-31303-8 / 4305 | 445 | 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. |
novel | Boris Vallejo | ||
| A Day for Damnation | 1989-03-00 | David Gerrold | Bantam Spectra | 0-553-27765-0 | $4.50?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
423+ [14] |
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. |
novel | Carla Sormanti | |
| Il ritorno degli Chtorr | 1991-09-00 | David Gerrold | Mondadori (Altri Mondi #28) | 88-04-35084-9 | Lit 26,000?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999 |
466 | 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. |
novel | Oscar Chichoni | |
| Urania #1218 | 1993-11-14 | ed. Giuseppe Lippi | Mondadori | 1218 | Lit 5,000?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999 |
368 | 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 | Oscar Chichoni | |
| A Day for Damnation | 2014-09-08 | David Gerrold | Audible Studios | $29.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
novel | ||||
| A Day for Damnation | 2016-07-05 | David Gerrold | Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio | 978-1-5113-1784-9 | $14.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
audio MP3 CD?Compact disc with mp3-encoded audio tracks |
novel | |||
| A Day for Damnation | date unknown | David Gerrold | Bantam Spectra | 0-553-27765-0 | $5.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
423+ [15] |
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. |
novel | Gary Ruddell |
Reviews
- Review by Dan Chow (1984) in Locus, #281 June 1984
- Review by Gary Zacharias (1984) in Fantasy Review, September 1984
- Review by Frank Catalano (1985) in Amazing Stories, July 1985
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1985) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, October 1985
- Review by Carolyn Cushman (1989) in Locus, #340 May 1989