Title: The Falling Torch

Title: The Falling Torch Title Record # 705
Author: Algis Budrys
Date: 1959-06-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Michael Wireman
Webpages: epdf.pub, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: This is a fixup novel incorporating the stories: "Falling Torch" (Venture Jan. 1958); "The Man Who Did Not Fit" (Astounding, March 1959) and "Hot Potato" (Astounding, July 1957). The 1991 version is revised with new material. The website linked above contains the revised version which includes a missing chapter not in the original version.

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Translated Serializations

Year	Title
1991	Falling Torch

Year	Language	Title
1965^ⓘTranslated by Ingrid Neumann.	German	Exil auf Centaurus
1974^ⓘTranslated by Maria Emília Ferros Moura	Portuguese	A última arma
1976^ⓘTranslated by Philippe Sabathé	French	S.O.S. Terre

Year	Language	Title
1964^ⓘTranslated by Lucia Morelli	Italian	La torcia cadente (Complete Novel)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Preliminary Nominees	1984 Prometheus	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Falling Torch	1959-06-00	Algis Budrys	Pyramid Books	G416	$0.35^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	158	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	Bob Engle
The Falling Torch	1962-01-00	Algis Budrys	Pyramid Books	F-693	$0.40^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	158	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	John Schoenherr
Galassia #38	1964-02-15	ed. Roberta Rambelli	Casa Editrice La Tribuna	38	Lit 200^?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	Brian Lewis
The Falling Torch	1964-05-00	Algis Budrys	Pyramid Books	F-1028	$0.40^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	158	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	John Schoenherr
Exil auf Centaurus	1965-07-30	Algis Budrys	Moewig (Terra Sonderband #99)	TSB99	DM 1.00^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	97	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".	novel	Karl Stephan
The Falling Torch	1968-07-00	Algis Budrys	Pyramid Books	X-1837	$0.60^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	158	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	John Schoenherr
The Falling Torch	1972-08-00	Algis Budrys	Pyramid Books	N2776	$0.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	158	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	John Schoenherr
The Falling Torch	1972-08-00	Algis Budrys	Pyramid Books	0-515-02776-6	C$0.75^?C$: Canadian dollar. ISO code: CAD	158	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	John Schoenherr
A última arma	1974-00-00	Algis Budrys	Livros do Brasil (Argonauta #199)			207	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	Lima de Freitas
The Falling Torch	1974-08-00	Algis Budrys	Pyramid Books	0-515-03430-4 / N3430	$0.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	158	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	Ed Emshwiller
The Falling Torch	1974-08-00	Algis Budrys	Pyramid Books	0-515-03430-4 / N3430	C$0.95^?C$: Canadian dollar. ISO code: CAD	158	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	Ed Emshwiller
S.O.S. Terre	1976-00-00	Algis Budrys	Presses de la Cité^?Presses de la Cite ( Presses de la Cité - Futurama^?Presses de la Cite - Futurama )	2-258-00009-2		192	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	Christine Fleurent
The Falling Torch	1978-11-00	Algis Budrys	Jove / HBJ	0-515-04649-3 / A4649	$1.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	158	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	Eric Ladd
The Falling Torch	1978-11-00	Algis Budrys	Jove / HBJ	0-515-04649-3 / A4649	C$1.50^?C$: Canadian dollar. ISO code: CAD	158	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	Eric Ladd
Falling Torch	1991-01-00	Algis Budrys	Baen Books	0-671-72033-3	$3.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	viii+ 211	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	Wayne Barlowe
The Falling Torch	2011-09-00	Algis Budrys	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-10836-3	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Falling Torch	2016-02-00	Algis Budrys	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-4976-5308-5	$7.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Frederik Pohl (1959) in If, November 1959
Review by uncredited (1959) in New Frontiers, December 1959
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1960) in Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, April 1960
Review by Alfred Bester (1962) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1962
Review by Floyd C. Gale (1962) in Galaxy Magazine, October 1962 , reprinted in:
Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], No. 94 October 1962 (1962)
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1965) in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, January 1965
Review by James Cawthorn [as by J. Cawthorn] (1966) in New Worlds SF, October 1966
Review [French] by Jean-Pierre Andrevon (1976) in Fiction, #269