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Interstellar Empire

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1976
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On Standing on One's Own Feet
The Altar on Asconel
The Man from the Big Dark
The Wanton of Argus
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A series of science fiction from John Brunner.

Interstellar Empire
Copyright ©, 1976, by Brunner Fact & Fiction Ltd.
No dedication.
None on file
May contain spoilers
"Yonder," said Kelab the Conjurer.
Comments may contain spoilers
On Standing on One's Own Feet first appeared in a slightly different form in Amra #36, copyright © 1965 by The Terminus, Owlswick, and Fort Mudge Electrick Street Railway Gazette.

The Altar on Asconel first appeared in abridged form and under the title The Altar at Asconel in If, copyright © 1965 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation, and in full-length form and under its present title as half of Ace Book M123, copyright © 1965 by Ace Books.

The Man from the Big Dark first appeared in Science Fiction Adventures, copyright 1958 by Royal Publications Inc.

The Wanton of Argus first appeared in Two Complete Science Adventure Books, copyright 1953 by Wings Publishing Co., Inc., and was reprinted as half of Ace Book F227, under the title The Space-Time Juggler, copyright © 1963 by Ace Books.
Extract not on file

 

Added: 12-Feb-2024
Last Updated: 24-Oct-2024

Publications

 01-Sep-1976
DAW Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Sep-1976
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$1.75
Pages*:
256
Catalog ID:
UE1362
Internal ID:
33466
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-879-97362-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-879-97362-9
Printing:
3
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Vicente Segrelles  - Cover Artist
JOHN BRUNNER


"Interstellar Empire deals with a power play on a planet that was formerly part of the now-crumbling and decadent Empire.  Three brothers struggle to regain the power usurped by a strange cult...

"The most interesting thing about this book is Brunner's ability to create, with a few strokes of his typewriter, a new galactic empire, and characters to play on the stage of a crumbling imperial bureaucracy.  The characterizations are impressibly vivid...

"The panoramic view of the empire from the standpoints of the planets Annanworld, Delcadore, and Asconel, presents an interesting interpretation of human motivations and human nature.

"John Brunner has succeeded once again in creating an excellent novel in the science fiction mode, re-establishing his well-deserved reknown and fame.  By all means, read this book.  It's bound to become a part of the 'Best of Brunner'"

- Drexel Triangle

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -

FROM DAW
THE PRODUCTIONS OF TIME by John Brunner
UVV1329 - $1.50
THE STORM LORD by Tanith Lee
UO361 - $1.95
GATE OF IVREL by C. J. Cherryh
UW1375 - $1.50
THE JOAN-OF-ARC REPLAY by Pierre Barbet
UW1374 - $1.50
Cover:
Book CoverBook Back CoverBook Spine
Notes and Comments:
First Printing, September 1976
Third printing based on the number line

From isfdb.org: The copyright page credits the cover artist as Paul Lehr but this is a Segrelles painting.  The 1st printing had a Paul Lehr cover. The credit was corrected to Segrelles by the 5th printing.

There is not DAW collctors number on this publication.  Since I cannot find one on a similar cover or catalog ID, this is left blank.

Other book covers for this series run

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01-Sep-1976
DAW Books
Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

 John Brunner
Birth: 24 Sep 1934 Preston Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Death: 26 Aug 1995 Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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  • Page numbers on this site are for the end of the main story. I normally do not include appendices, extra material, and other miscellaneous stuff at the end of the book in the page count.






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