Title: Down the Up Escalation
Title Record # 56838
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1967-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1967-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First published in The London Magazine, February 1967.
Synopsis: A publisher suffers a heart attack and has visions of his father speaking of WWII, of children fated to die in the Vietnam War for whom he can trade his life, and other things.
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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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| The Moment of Eclipse | 1970-00-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Faber and Faber | 0-571-09570-4 | £1.50?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
215 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Jerome Gask | |
| The New Tomorrows | 1971-10-00 | ed. Norman Spinrad | Belmont Books | B95-2172 | $0.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
236 | 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 | ||
| Moment of Eclipse | 1972-00-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Doubleday | $5.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
[10]+ 224 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Margo Herr | ||
| The New Tomorrows | 1973-00-00 | ed. Norman Spinrad | Belmont Tower | 50540 | $0.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
235 | 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 | O'Brien | |
| L'instant de l'éclipse | 1973-02-19 | Brian W. Aldiss | Denoël?Denoel (Présence du Futur?Presence du Futur #164) |
247 | 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 | ||||
| The Moment of Eclipse | 1973-11-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Panther | 0-586-03776-4 | £0.35?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
187 | 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 | Bob Haberfield | |
| Galassia #211 | 1976-01-01 | ed. Gianni Montanari | Casa Editrice La Tribuna | 211 | Lit 800?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999 |
160 | 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 | Bruce Pennington | |
| The Moment of Eclipse | 1979-00-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Panther | 0-586-03776-4 | £1.25?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
187 | 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 | Peter Goodfellow | |
| The Moment of Eclipse | 1979-00-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Panther | 0-586-03776-4 | £0.90?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
187 | 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 | ||
| Der Moment der Eklipse | 1983-10-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe (Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Special #24049) |
3-404-24049-9 | DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999 |
253 | 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 | Tim White | |
| The Moment of Eclipse | 1985-00-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Panther / Granada | 0-586-03776-4 | £1.95?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
187 | 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 | Vincent Di Fate | |
L'instant de l'éclipse?L'instant de l'eclipse |
1989-07-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Denoël?Denoel (Présence du Futur?Presence du Futur #164) |
2-207-50164-7 | F29.00?F: French frank. ISO code: FRF in 1960-1999 |
247 | 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 | Pascal Moret | |
| The Moment of Eclipse | 2000-00-00 | Brian Aldiss | House of Stratus | 0-7551-0079-4 | £6.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
207 | 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 | Derek Edwards | |
| El Momento del Eclipse | 2002-04-11 | Brian W. Aldiss | Minotauro | 84-450-7367-2 | $12.35?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
238 | 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 | ||
| The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 4) | 2015-09-24 | Brian Aldiss | Harper Voyager (UK) | 978-0-00-814896-6 | £10.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
620 | 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 |