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SHORT FICTION INDEX NEXT STORY PREVIOUS STORY	Some Fabulous Yonder Genre Science Fiction / Crime Type Novelette Series - Rewritten and cut without Philip José Farmer’s permission. The story was "ruined" according to Phil. With the publication in 2006 the text was restored to the original story. See also "Planet Pickers", an earlier and uncompleted draft of this story. DESCRIPTION: Raspold is an agent of the Federation Extra-Terrestrial Criminal Apprehension Bureau (FECAB). He gets the order to bring in the criminal Heinrich Nge, who has stolen the Federation destroyer George A. Custer. For that he had to go to "that dark planet beyond the rim of the Galaxy." Raspold did find Nge there, but also something else, something unexpected.   PUBLICATION HISTORY | US | ITALY |	10 Publications
US	Magazine Edited by Publisher Series+no. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes FIRST PUBLICATION in Fantastic Cele Goldsmith New York, NY: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company Volume 12, No. 4 magazine (19,5×14cm) April 1963 132 $ 0.35 Frank Bruno Cut version. Story ilustrated by Frank Bruno. The cover illustrates Farmer's story. Frank Bruno Magazine Edited by Publisher Series+no. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes in Strange Fantasy not credited [= Sol Cohen] Flushing, NY: Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc No. 8 magazine (19×13,5cm) Spring 1969 132 $ 0.50 not credited [= Frank Bruno] Cut version. Story ilustrated by Frank Bruno. The cover illustrates Farmer's story. Frank Bruno Collection Edited by Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Dates Pages Price Cover art Notes in Pearls from Peoria Paul Spiteri Burton, MI: Subterranean Press - ISBN 1-59606-059-X hardcover (23,5×16cm) 09/2006 (1st) (trade edition) 12/2006 (2nd) (trade edition) 773 $ 45.00 Keith Howell & Charles Berlin With a short introduction by Paul Spiteri. Restored to Farmer's original text. Included in this collection also is an earlier and uncompleted draft of the story, "Planet Pickers". Keith Howell & Charles Berlin Collection Edited by Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Dates Pages Price Cover art Notes in Pearls from Peoria Paul Spiteri Burton, MI: Subterranean Press - ISBN 1-59606-059-X hardcover (23,5×16cm) 10/2006 (numbered, signed, in slipcase) 03/2007 (lettered, signed, in traycase) 773 $ 150.00 | $ 300.00 Keith Howell & Charles Berlin With a short introduction by Paul Spiteri. Restored to Farmer's original text. Included in this collection also is an earlier and uncompleted draft of the story, "Planet Pickers". Keith Howell & Charles Berlin Publisher Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes -: Wonder eBooks ASIN B003OYIEPW ebook 06/2010 (46) $ 0.99 Frank Bruno Cut version. Frank Bruno Omnibus Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes in The Flying Eyes | Some Fabulous Yonder Medford, OR: Armchair Fiction Armchair Sci-Fi & Horror Double Novels, D-48 ISBN 978-1-61287-070-0 trade paperback (20×13,5cm) 01/2012 203 $ 12.95 not credited [= Frank Bruno] Omnibus, with two short novels by J. Hunter Holly and by Philip José Farmer. Farmer's story is illustrated on the back cover. This is not the restored text from 2006, but the old, cut version of 1963. Frank Bruno Collection Edited by Publisher Bookno. Format Dates Pages Price Cover art Notes in Pearls from Peoria Paul Spiteri Burton, MI: Subterranean Press ISBN 978-1-59606-777-6 ebook 01/2016 (773) $ 6.99 Keith Howell & Charles Berlin With a short introduction by Paul Spiteri. Restored to Farmer's original text. Included in this collection also an earlier and uncompleted draft of this story, "Planet Pickers". Keith Howell & Charles Berlin
ITALY	Title Collection Edited by Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes Italian: "Lassù è favoloso" in Storie dello spazio esterno Sandro Pergameno Milan: Nord Grandi Opere Nord 8 ISBN 88-429-0591-7 hardcover (21×14cm) 11/1982 xviii + 694 not priced [= L 20.000] Giampaolo Cossato & Sandro Sandrelli Michael Whelan - Michael Whelan
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