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SHORT FICTION INDEX NEXT STORY PREVIOUS STORY	They Twinkled Like Jewels Genre Science Fiction Type Short story Series - First time published solo in chapbook format in 2009. See the Book page in the section Novels & Collections for all solo book publications. This story is also available as a free Audio Book. DESCRIPTION: Jack Crane sees a stinger wasp injecting its poison in a caterpillar. Its body will be preserved until the attached wasp's egg hatches, and eats the caterpillar while still alive. Too late he realizes that the Bohas, undetected aliens, use the same technique for their eggs.   PUBLICATION HISTORY | US | GERMANY | ITALY | RUSSIA | SPAIN |	16 Publications
US	Magazine Edited by Publisher Series+no. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes FIRST PUBLICATION in Fantastic Universe Beatrice Jones New York, NY: King-Size Publications Volume 1, No. 4 magazine (19,5×14cm) January 1954 160 $ 0.35 Joe Richards - Joe Richards Collection Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes in The Celestial Blueprint New York, NY: Ace Books F-165 no ISBN paperback (16×10,5cm) -/1962 114 $ 0.40 uncredited [= Ed Emshwiller] - Ed Emshwiller Collection Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes in The Cache New York, NY: Pinnacle / Tor Books Jim Bean Presents, Science Fiction ISBN 0-523-48511-5 paperback (17,5×10,5cm) not dated [= 09/1981] 292 $ 2.50 uncredited [= Eric Ladd] - Eric Ladd Collection Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes in The Cache New York, NY: Pinnacle / Tor Books Jim Bean Presents, Science Fiction ISBN 0-523-48534-4 paperback (17,5×10,5cm) 11/1981 (2nd) 292 $ 2.75 uncredited [= Eric Ladd] - Eric Ladd Collection Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes in The Cache New York, NY: Tor Books Jim Bean Presents, Science Fiction ISBN 0-523-48534-4 paperback (17,5×10,5cm) not dated [-/1982 ?] 292 $ 2.75 uncredited [= Eric Ladd] The book is nearly identical to the one in the previous entry. No date and no printing information in the 'extra' second printing. Eric Ladd Collection Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes in The Cache New York, NY: Tor Books Science Fiction ISBN 0-812-53755-6 paperback (17×10,5cm) 12/1986 (3rd) 292 $ 2.95 uncredited [= Eric Ladd] Third printing according to the book, actually the fourth. Eric Ladd Anthology Editor Publisher Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes in The Golden Age of Science Fiction not credited -: Halcyon Press Ltd. no ISBN ebook 03/2010 (992) $ 1.99 - - - Anthology Editor Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes in Science Fiction Super Pack #1 not credited Floyd, VA: Positronic Publishing Fantastic Stories Presents ISBN 978-1-63384-253-3 trade paperback (23×15cm) 07/2014 764 not priced [= $ 19.99] Can Stock Photo Inc. A Print-on-Demand publication. - Anthology Editor Publisher Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes in The Golden Age of Science Fiction not credited -: Halcyon Press Ltd. no ISBN ebook 10/2015 (2nd) (992) $ 1.99 - - - Anthology Editor Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes in Fantastic Universe Super Pack not credited Floyd, VA: Positronic Publishing Fantastic Stories Presents ISBN 978-1-5154-0981-6 trade paperback (25×17,5cm) 08/2016 393 not priced [= $ 14.99] Can Stock Photo Inc. / digitalstorm A Print-on-Demand publication. - Anthology Editor Publisher Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes in The Golden Age of Science Fiction Volume 1 not credited -: Amazing Sci-Fi Classics ISBN 978-1-5183-6111-1 ebook 03/2018 - $ 0.99 uncredited [= Anton Kurka] Cover art was used for If, January 1953. Anton Kurka
GERMANY	Title Magazine Editor Publisher Series+no. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes German: "Tramps und rosa Brillen" in Utopia (Tyrannei der Uhren) not credited Rastatt (Baden): Pabel Nr. 415 magazine (22×16cm) 08/1964 64 DM 0.70 uncredited uncredited [= Rudolf Sieber-Lonati] With stories by J.G. Ballard and Frederik Pohl. Rudolf Sieber-Lonati
ITALY	Title Magazine Edited by Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes Italan: "Splendenti come gioielli" in Gamma Valentino De Carlo Milan: Edizioni dello Scorpione Number 12 - Volume 2 no ISBN paperback (18×11,5cm) 11/1966 160 L 350 Ferruccio Alessandri Ferruccio Alessandri This is a paperback magazine. Ferruccio Alessandri Title Anthology Edited by Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes Italan: "Splendenti come gioielli" in Il libro di Gamma 2: Odissea nello spazio Valentino De Carlo Milan: Edizioni dello Scorpione Il libro di Gamma 2 no ISBN paperback (17,5×10,5cm) not dated [= -/1968] 192 + 160 + 160 L 1.000 Ferruccio Alessandri Ferruccio Alessandri The book is a rebind of the paperback magazine Gamma, the issue numbers 14, 13 and 12 (in that order). Ferruccio Alessandri
RUSSIA	Title Latin Omnibus Latin Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes Russian: "Они сверкали как алмазы" "Oni sverkali kak almazy" in Миры Филипа Фармера - T. 15 in Miry Filipa Farmera - T. 15 Riga & Moscow: Polaris - ISBN 5-88132-275-4 hardcover [no dustjacket] (20,5×13,5cm) 03/1997 400 not priced A. Dumesh I. Leontiev - I. Leontiev
SPAIN	Title Collection Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes Spanish: "Brillaban como joyas" in La piel del diablo Barcelona: Vértice Galaxia 61 no ISBN paperback (17,5×11cm) not dated [= -/1967] 222 Ps 50 F. Sesén Enrich - Enrich
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