Science fiction
collection.
5 stories: "The
Night of Light", "A
Few Miles", "Prometheus",
"Father",
"Attitudes".
The Italian editions and the French editions include besides
"The Night of Light" - which makes part one of the novel - also part
two of the novel, together also the complete novel Night of Light.
The first Italian edition was published five years before the first US
edition.
Nominated for the Locus
Award (1982 - Best Single Author Collection: 14th).
Series: Father
John Carmody
DEDICATION: --
COVER TEXT:
John Carmody has
no ethics, no morals and no conscience. Until he takes the Chance on
Dante's Joy, living through seven nights of his wildest fantasies come
true, he can't even imagine why anyone would want a conscience. But
Dante's Joy is a truly strange place — and the phone calls
from his
murdered wife are only the beginning of his strange experiences.
Father John Carmody is a man who knows evil intimately, and is coming
to know good with an equal intimacy. He is in a unique position to roam
the galaxy, dispensing wisdom and advice along with Catholic doctrine
and the saying of mass — a fully qualified father to the
stars!
(Tor 1988 edition)
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New York, NY: Pinnacle / Tor
Books
Jim Baen Presents
ISBN 0-523-48504-2
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
07/1981 (1st)
319
$ 2.75
Janny Wurtz
The first US publication, the first worldwide edition was
published five years before in Italy. With a foreword
by Roger Zelazny. The name and title on the cover are in
silver foil. Illustrated with six black and white interior drawings
by an uncredited artist (= Do Marco).
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New York, NY: Pinnacle / Tor
Books
Jim Baen Presents
ISBN 0-523-48562-X
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
05/1982 (2nd)
319
$ 2.75
Janny Wurtz
With a foreword
by
Roger Zelazny. Illustrated with six black and white interior drawings
by an uncredited artist (= Do Marco). The cover (front, spine and back)
still gives the ISBN of the first printing, # 0-523-48504-2.
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New York, NY: Tor Books
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ISBN 0-812-53771-8
paperback (17×10,5cm)
08/1988 (3rd)
319
$ 3.95
Janny Wurtz
Illustrated with six black and white interior drawings by an uncredited
artist (= Do Marco).
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FRANCE
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French: La Nuit de la
lumière
Rennes: Terre de Brume
Poussière d'étoiles
ISBN 2-84362-285-9
trade paperback (24×14cm)
04/2006
407
€ 21,00
France-Marie Watkins, Arlette Rosenblum & Michel
Deutsch (Translations revised by Minos
Hubert).
Éric Scala
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French: La Nuit de la
lumière
Paris: Le Livre de Poche
Science-Fiction, No. 31110
ISBN 978-2-253-12190-9
paperback (18×11cm)
09/2008
541
€ 6,95
France-Marie Watkins, Arlette Rosenblum & Michel
Deutsch (Translations revised by Minos Hubert).
Jackie Paternoster
The collection includes the complete novel Night of Light.
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GERMANY
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German: Pater der
Sterne
München: Knaur
Science Fiction, Band 5767
ISBN 3-426-05767-0
paperback (18×11,5cm)
10/1983
302
DM 5,80
Rainer Schmidt
Tom Kidd
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ITALY
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FIRST PUBLICATION
Italian: Notte di luce
Milan: Nord
Cosmo, Classici della Fantascienza (22)
no ISBN (later ISBN 88-429-0319-1)
hardcover (19,5×12,5cm)
05/1976
x + 323
L 3.500
Riccardo Valla
not credited [= Cesare Reggiani]
This edition was published five years before the first US edition.
Dark blue cloth boards with white lettering on the spine. The
collection includes the complete novel Night of Light.
With an introduction
by Riccardo Valla.
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Italian: Notte di
luce
Milan: Nord
Cosmo, Classici della Fantascienza (22)
no ISBN (later ISBN 88-429-0319-1)
hardcover (19,5×12,5cm)
02/1982 (2nd)
x + 323
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Riccardo Valla
not credited [= Cesare Reggiani]
Dark blue cloth boards with white lettering on the spine. The
collection includes the complete novel Night of Light.
With an introduction
by Riccardo Valla.
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Italian: Notte di
luce
Milan: Nord
Cosmo, Classici della fantascienza, 22
ISBN 88-429-0319-1
trade paperback (19,5×12,5cm)
02/1995
x + 323
L 22.000
Riccardo Valla
Peter A. Jones
Paperback with a dustjacket. The
collection includes the complete novel Night of Light.
With an introduction
by Riccardo Valla.
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Italian: Notte di luce
Milan: Mondadori
Urania Collezione 052
no ISBN
paperback (18×12,5cm)
05/2007
482
€ 4,90
Riccardo Valla
Franco Brambilla
The collection includes the complete novel Night of Light.
With an article, "Fantascienza e religione", by Riccardo Valla and a
fourteen page long Italian PJF bibliography, compiled by Ernesto
Vegetti.
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RUSSIA
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Omnibus
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Russian: Отче
звездный
in Миры Филипа Фармера 19
Riga & Moscow: Polaris
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ISBN 5-88132-322-X
hardcover [no dustjacket] (20,5×13,5cm)
07/1997
398
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I. Polochk, A. Sverchkov, A. Galkina
V. Kovalev
Pictorial boards. Omnibus, together with Night
of Light and Inside
Outside. The first story "The Night of Light" is
included in the novel, the other four stories are: "Несколько миль",
"Прометей",
"Отец"
and "Отношения".
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 "Éric Scala")
 "Jackie Paternoster")
 "Tom Kidd")
 "Cessare Reggiani")
 "Cessare Reggiani")
 "Peter A. Jones")
 "Franco Brambilla")
 "V. Kovalev")