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Riverworld and Other Stories
Genre Science Fiction
Type Collection
Series
Riverworld
Only the novelette "Riverworld" is part of the Riverworld series.
11 stories: "Riverworld"*, "J.C. on the Dude Ranch", "The Volcano"*, "The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol", "The Problem of the Sore Bridge—Among Others"*, "Brass and Gold (or Horse and Zeppelin in Beverly Hills)"*, "The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod", "The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix"*, "Monolog"*, "The Leaser of Two Evils" and "The Phantom of the Sewers"*.
The Italian publication contains seven of these stories, marked with *.
The 2017 ebook publication has two extra stories, "Up the Bright River", and "Crossing the Dark River", and an essay by Farmer; see the book below.
DEDICATION: --
COVER TEXT:
Riverworld. To millions of readers it is as familiar as Earth - this awesome planet where all humanity that ever lived, all 36 billion of us, from Tom Mix to Joan of Arc, are simultaneously reincarnated along the banks of a million-mile-river...
This new collection contains the original Riverworld novelette, much expanded and revised, and ten other startling stories with the uncanny Farmer touch!
(Berkley Books)
 
PUBLICATION HISTORY
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19 Publications
 
US

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FIRST PUBLICATION
New York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-04208-1
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
11/1979 (1st)
not dated [= 09/1980] (2nd)
264
$ 2.25
uncredited [= Don Ivan Punchatz]
With forewords to the book and to each story by Farmer. The 1st printing was used to include in the box Philip José Farmer's Fabulous Riverworld (09/1980).


Don Ivan Punchatz
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Boston, MA: Gregg Press
The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series
ISBN 0-8398-2618-4
hardcover [no dustjacket] (21×14cm)
01/1981
xiv + 264
$ 15.95
none
First hardcover, with dark red cloth boards and gilt lettering on the spine. A photographic reprint of the 1979 Berkley Books edition. With a new introduction by Richard Gid Powers, and with forewords to the book and to each story by Farmer.

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New York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-04208-1
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
02/1981 (3rd)
04/1981 (4th)
09/1981 (5th)
not dated [= 10/1981] (6th)
264
$ 2.25
uncredited [= Don Ivan Punchatz]
With forewords to the book and to each story by Farmer. The 4th, 5th or 6th printings were used to include in the box The Complete Riverworld Novels (10/1981).

Don Ivan Punchatz
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New York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-06487-5
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
04/1983 (7th)
10/1983 (8th)
01/1984 (9th)
264
$ 2.75
uncredited [= Don Ivan Punchatz]
With forewords to the book and to each story by Farmer.

Don Ivan Punchatz
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New York, NY: Ace Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-441-72886-3
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
11/1987
264
$ 3.50
uncredited [= Don Ivan Punchatz]
With forewords to the book and to each story by Farmer.

Don Ivan Punchatz
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New York, NY: Open Road Integrated Media
ISBN 978-1-5040-4609-1
ebook
08/2017
(381)
$ 6.77
unknown
With forewords to the book and to each story, except with the two 'new' ones, by Farmer.
This ebook publication has two extra stories: "Up the Bright River", and "Crossing the Dark River", plus an essay by Farmer, "The Source of the River".

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UK
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St Albans, Herts: Granada / Panther Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05379-4
paperback (18×11cm)
02/1981 (1st)
303
£ 1.50
Bruce Pennington
With forewords to the book and to each story by Farmer.
Bruce Pennington
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London: Grafton Books
Panther Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05379-4
paperback (18×11cm)
12/1986 (2nd)
303
£ 2.50
Bruce Pennington
With forewords to each story by Farmer.
Bruce Pennington
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London: Grafton Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05379-4
paperback (18×11cm)
-/1988 (3rd)
303
£ 2.95
Bruce Pennington
With forewords to each story by Farmer.
Bruce Pennington
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London: Grafton Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05379-4
paperback (18×11cm)
not dated [= -/1989] (4th)
303
£ 3.50
Bruce Pennington
With forewords to each story by Farmer.
Bruce Pennington
ITALY
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Italian: Il mondo di Philip José Farmer
Milan: Nord
SF, Narrativa d'Anticipazione (24)
no ISBN [later: ISBN 88-429-0629-8]
trade paperback (19,5×12,5cm)
04/1981
ix + 193
L 3.500
Roberta Rambelli
Michael Whelan
Only seven of the eleven stories, marked with an *. With an Introduction by Sandro Pergameno and with forewords to each story by Farmer.
Michael Whelan
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Spanish: El Mundo del Río y otras historias
Barcelona: Ultramar
Bolsillo B-75, Ciencia Ficcion-12
ISBN 84-7386-353-4
paperback (17,5×11,5cm)
10/1984 (1st)
03/1989 (2nd)
329
not priced
Victor Conill
Garcés/Castells
With forewords to each story by Farmer.
Garcés/Castells
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