Title: Sitting Around the Pool, Soaking Up the Rays
Title Record # 42758
Author: Frederik Pohl
Date: 1984-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Current Tags: science fiction (1), remote control of humans (1), mind control (1) Add Tags
Author: Frederik Pohl
Date: 1984-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Related to "We purchased people".
Synopsis: Technologically enhanced, long distance alien mind control allows distant planets to negotiate with Earth about minerals through humans. It's hard to be one of these humans. It's very hard to connect to other humans between sessions.
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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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| Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1984 | 1984-08-00 | ed. Shawna McCarthy | Davis Publications | $1.75?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
180 | 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 | Hisaki Yasuda | ||
| Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 25. Folge | 1985-09-00 | ed. Friedel Wahren | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4222) | 3-453-31201-5 | DM 7.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999 |
287+ [1] |
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 | Karel Thole | |
| Tales from the Planet Earth | 1986-11-00 | ed. Elizabeth Anne Hull, Frederik Pohl | St. Martin's Press | 0-312-78420-1 | $15.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
xviii+ 268 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Manny Paul | |
| Tales from the Planet Earth | 1987-11-00 | ed. Elizabeth Anne Hull, Frederik Pohl | St. Martin's Press | 0-312-90779-6 | $3.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
xviii+ 268 |
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 | ||
| Isaac Asimov Magazine, #23 | 1992-00-00 | ed. Ronaldo Sergio de Biasi | Record | 190 | 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. |
mag | ||||
| Frederik Pohl Audiobook Collection | 2024-12-28 | Frederik Pohl | MotionAudiobooks | $46.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
audio MP3 DVD?DVD with mp3-encoded audio tracks |
omni |