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SHORT FICTION INDEX NEXT STORY PREVIOUS STORY	Venus on the Half-Shell Genre Science fiction Type Novella (serial in two parts) Series - Written as by Kilgore Trout (pseudonym / fictional author). A slightly condensed version of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell. DESCRIPTION: The story of Simon Wagstaff, the Space Wanderer, is known on a billion planets. This gentle little man with the patch over one eye, the permanent pain in his posterior, and his atomic-powered banjo has visited thousands of worlds in the past few thousand years. His companions, a dog, an owl, and a female robot are also famous.   PUBLICATION HISTORY | US | RUSSIA |	3 Publications
US	Magazine Edited by Publisher Series+no. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes FIRST PUBLICATION in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Edward L. Ferman Cornwall, CT: Mercury Press, Inc. Volume 47, No. 6, Whole No. 283 magazine (19,5×13cm) December 1974 164 $ 0.75 Ron Walotsky Part I. With a photo of Kilgore Trout. The cover illustrates this story. Ron Walotsky Magazine Edited by Publisher Series+no. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes FIRST PUBLICATION in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Edward L. Ferman Cornwall, CT: Mercury Press, Inc. Volume 48, No. 1, Whole No. 284 magazine (19,5×13cm) January 1975 164 $ 0.75 Mazey & Schell Part II. Mazey & Schell
RUSSIA	Title Magazine Edited by Publisher Series+no. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes Russian: "Венера на раковине" in Мир Чудес (World of Wonders) YU.D. Shmakov & V.P. Burya -: ? No.4 magazine (..×..cm) -/1991 32 руб 40 G. Blanco Elena Martynets & Andrew Zhulanov Published under the name of Kilgore Trout (Килгор Траут). Extract of two pages. With a biography of Kilgore Trout.  Martynets & Zhulanov
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