Title: The Teeth of Despair
Title Record # 62824
Authors: Avram Davidson and Sidney Klein
Date: 1961-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Authors: Avram Davidson and Sidney Klein
Date: 1961-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: An impoverished college professor discovers that he can communicate by radio with a TV quiz show contestant with a plate in his head, and devises a scheme to profit by it.
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Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1961 | 1961-05-00 | ed. Robert P. Mills | Mercury Press, Inc. | $0.40?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
132 | 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 | Emsh | ||
| What Strange Stars and Skies | 1965-00-00 | Avram Davidson | Ace Books | F-330 | $0.40?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
188 | 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 | Jack Gaughan | |
| Science Fiction Oddities | 1966-11-00 | ed. Groff Conklin | Berkley Medallion | S1311 | $0.75?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
256 | 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 | Don Punchatz | |
| Science Fiction Oddities | 1969-06-00 | ed. Groff Conklin | Rapp & Whiting | 0-85391-082-0 | 21/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
x+ 156 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
| What Strange Stars and Skies | 2012-09-18 | Avram Davidson | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-12795-1 | £2.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
| The Avram Davidson Science Fiction & Fantasy MEGAPACK® | 2016-03-25 | Avram Davidson | Wildside Press (Megapack) | 978-1-4794-2098-8 | $0.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
| The Avram Davidson Science Fiction & Fantasy MEGAPACK® | 2016-04-12 | Avram Davidson | Wildside Press | 978-1-4794-2136-7 | $14.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
190 | 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 |