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Osiris on Crutches
Genre Science Fiction
Type Short story
Series -
Written by Philip José Farmer and Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor (pseudonym / fictional author). Tincrowdor is also one of the characters in the story.
DESCRIPTION:
There have always been Gods in the old world, in Greece, Italy, Egypt. Gods walked the earth then. They weren't invisible or absent as they are nowadays. Why and how did this come to an end? The god Osiris meets Tincrowdor, who explains and shows it to Osiris.
 
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16 Publications
 
US

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FIRST PUBLICATION
in New Dimensions 6
Robert Silverberg
New York, NY: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.
Harper Science Fiction
ISBN 0-06-013864-5
hardcover (21,5×14,5cm)
05/1976
vii + 247
$ 8.95
Irving Freeman
With an introduction by the editor.


Irving Freeman
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in Stations of the Nightmare
New York, NY: Tor Books
Jim Baen Presents
ISBN 0-523-48522-0
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
02/1982 (1st)
256
$ 2.75
Greg Theakston
Story illustrated by Peter Kuper.

Greg Theakston
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in Stations of the Nightmare
New York, NY: Tor Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-812-53773-4
paperback (17×10,5cm)
not dated [= 11/1988] (2nd)
256
$ 3.95
Ron Walotsky
Story illustrated by Peter Kuper.

Ron Walotsky
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in Riders of the Purple Wage
New York, NY: Tor Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-812-51905-1
paperback (17×10,5cm)
04/1992
216
$ 3.99
David Hardy
Published under Farmer's name only.

David Hardy
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in Venus on the Half-Shell and Others
Christopher Paul Carey
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 978-1-59606-142-2
hardcover (23,5×16cm)
01/2008 [Trade edition.]
03/2008 [Numbered, signed, slipcased edition.]
325
$ 38.00 | $ 125.00
Bob Eggleton
With an introduction by the editor.

Bob Eggleton
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in Venus on the Half-Shell and Others
Christopher Paul Carey
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 978-1-59606-142-2
hardcover (23,5×16cm)
10/2008 [Lettered, signed, traycased edition.]
340
$ 300.00
Bob Eggleton
With an introduction by the editor.

Bob Eggleton
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in The Worlds of Philip José Farmer (3): Portraits of
a Trickster

Michael Croteau
(Lilburn, GA): Meteor House
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ISBN 978-0-983-74611-9
trade paperback (23×15,5cm)
08/2012
282
$ 25.00
Keith Howell
With a short introduction.

Keith Howell
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The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection
Michael Croteau
(Lilburn, GA): Meteor House
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ISBN 978-1-945427-12-1
hardcover (22,5×14,5cm)
07/2018
936
$ 50.00
Mark Wheatley
Each section has its own "Decade Introduction"—a synopsis of Phil's life and career—by the editor.

Mark Wheatley
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The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection
Michael Croteau
(Lilburn, GA): Meteor House
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ISBN 978-1-945427-11-4
trade paperback (21,5×14cm)
07/2018
936
$ 35.00
Mark Wheatley
Each section has its own "Decade Introduction"—a synopsis of Phil's life and career—by the editor.

Mark Wheatley
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The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection
Michael Croteau
(Lilburn, GA): Meteor House
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ISBN 978-1-945427-15-2
hardcover [no dustjacket] (22,5×14,5cm)
09/2018
936
not priced [= $ 225.00]
Mark Wheatley
A limited deluxe hardcover edition, of 52 lettered copies (A-Z and AA-ZZ), signed by all of the contributors.
Each section has its own "Decade Introduction"—a synopsis of Phil's life and career—by the editor.

Mark Wheatley
UK
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in New Dimensions 6
Robert Silverberg
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.
SF
ISBN 0-575-02173-X
hardcover (20,5×13,5cm)
-/1976
vii + 247
£ 3.95
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With an introduction by the editor.

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FRANCE
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French: "Des béquilles pour Osiris"
in SF & Quotidien
Stephane Gillet
Asnières: Waterloo
n° 4
magazine (20,5×14,5cm)
not dated [= February 1981]
80
FF 13
Franck Gourgon
Jean-Michel Ucciani
Illustrated by Claude Eckermann.

Jean-Michel Ucciani
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French: "Les béquilles d'Osiris"
in Station du cauchemar
Paris: Presses de la Cité
Superlights 2
ISBN 2-258-01137-X
paperback (17,5×11cm)
10/1982
222
not priced
Jacques Guiod and Jacques Martinache
Raymond Hermange
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Raymond Hermange
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French: "Les béquilles d'Osiris"
in Station cauchemar
Paris: Presses Pocket
Science-Fiction, No. 5456
ISBN 2-266-04664-0
paperback (17,5×11cm)
06/1992
222
not priced
Jacques Guiod and Jacques Martinache
Wojtek Siudmak
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Wojtek Siudmak
RUSSIA
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Russian: "Осирис на костылях"
"Osiris na kostylyakh"
in НФ-52
in NF-52
Sergei Sobolev
Tver: Krot
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no ISBN
trade paperback (21,5×14,5cm)
-/2012
320
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A. Guzman
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Limited edition of only 30 copies. The anthology also includes "Sail On! Sail On!" ("Вперед, мой челн!")

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