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The Green Odyssey
Science fiction novel.
Philip José Farmer's first book publication.
Farmer planned to write a sequel, The Greeniad.
Also published as an eBook (2003) and as an Audio Book (2006).
DEDICATION: "To Nan Gerding."
COVER TEXT:
Alan Green is not exactly a hero. In fact, he likes peace and quiet just as well as the next man. Not that he is really afraid of that crazy, hot-blooded hound dog Alzo, or even of the hound's equally hot-blooded owner, the beautiful Duchess Zuni. After all, on this backward, violent planet a man can manage nicely, providing he is alert twenty-four hours a day. The trouble with Alan is that he's tired - and homesick. So when he hears of two other downed spacemen from Earth, he hitches a ride with a greedy merchant-captain on a windroller destined to carry him to their spaceship. What he isn't prepared for are the vagaries of the windroller, pirates, the "traveling islands" that devour everything in their path, and the flora and fauna peculiar to this planet. In order to make it to the spaceship alive, it seems that Alan Green may have to be a hero after all.
(Book of the Month Club)
 
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45 Publications
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US

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FIRST PUBLICATION
New York, NY: Ballantine Books
H-210
no ISBN
hardcover (21×14,5cm)
06/1957
152
$ 2.75
Richard Powers
First hardcover. Both Ballantine editions were published simultaneously. Grey cloth boards, with green lettering on the spine. No statement of edition on the copyright page. Most of the small print-run of the hardcover went to (military) libraries.


Richard Powers

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FIRST PUBLICATION
New York, NY: Ballantine Books
# 210
no ISBN
paperback (18×11cm)
06/1957
152
$ 0.35
Richard Powers
Both Ballantine editions were published simultaneously.


Richard Powers
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New York, NY: Ballantine Books
U2345
no ISBN
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
10/1966 (2nd)
152
$ 0.50
Richard Powers
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Richard Powers
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Boston, MA: Gregg Press
The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series
ISBN 0-8398-2414-9
hardcover [no dustjacket] (21×14cm)
06/1978
xv + 152
$ 9.00
-
Red cloth boards, with gilt lettering on the spine. A photographic reprint - including the copyright page - of the 1957 Ballantine paperback edition.
Russell Letson wrote an introduction for this edition.

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New York, NY: Berkley Books
-
ISBN 0-425-06159-0
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
09/1983
215
$ 2.50
Carl Lundgren
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Carl Lundgren
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New York, NY: Book-of-the-Month Club
-
no ISBN
hardcover (20,5×14cm)
07/1990
152
$ 14.95
Robert C. Raines
Green paper boards, pink cloth spine with green gilt lettering on the spine.

Robert C. Raines
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Shreveport, LA: Ramble House
-
no ISBN
paperback (14,5×10,5cm)
-/2003
275
$ 20.00
Gavin L. O'Keefe
Small and extremely limited paperback edition, from a small publisher. It has a brown paper cover with a black-white illustration and a color dustjacket. With doodles by Knees Calhoon. You can call this book a kind of a 'testcase' for the later definite edition of 2004, see the next entry.

Gavin L. O'Keefe
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Shreveport, LA: Ramble House
-
no ISBN
paperback (14,5×10,5cm)
05/2004
vii + 281
$ 20.00
Gavin L. O'Keefe
Small limited paperback edition, from a small publisher. The paper cover has the same color illustration as the dustjacket. With an introduction by Roger Crombie and illustrated by Gavin L. O'Keefe.

Gavin L. O'Keefe
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Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing
-
ISBN 1-4191-6497-X
large paperback (23,5×19cm)
not dated [= 06/2004]
153
not priced [= $ 21.95]
-
No copyright information in the book, and neither a date of publication. It looks like a text book.

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West Valley City, UT: Waking Lion Press
-
ISBN 1-60096-383-8
trade paperback (23×15,5cm)
08/2006
180
not priced [= $ 10.95]
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West Valley City, UT: Waking Lion Press
-
ISBN 1-60096-492-3
trade paperback (22,5×15,5cm)
08/2006
234
not priced [= $ 12.95]
-
Large Print Edition. 

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West Valley City, UT: Classic Books Library
Science Fiction
ISBN 1-60096-768-X
trade paperback (23×15cm)
03/2007
184
not priced [= $ 10.95]
-
A print-on-demand publication.

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Rockville, MD: Wildside / Borgo Press
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ISBN 978-1-4344-8495-6
hardcover [no dustjacket] (22,5×15cm)
not dated [= 09/2007]
152
not priced [= $ 24.95]
-
Pictorial boards. A complete photographic reprint, including the title page and the copyright page, of the 1966 Ballantine paperback (second printing). A print-on-demand publication.

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Rockville, MD: Wildside / Brownstone Books
-
ISBN 978-1-4344-8494-9
trade paperback (21,5×14cm)
not dated [= 09/2007]
152
not priced [= $ 9.99]
-
A complete photographic reprint, including the title page and the copyright page, of the 1966 Ballantine paperback (second printing). A print-on-demand publication.

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West Valley City, UT: Waking Lion Press / Boomer Books
-
ISBN 978-1-4341-0072-6
trade paperback (23×15,5cm)
not dated [= 07/2008]
192
not priced [= $ 12.95]
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Newly designed and typeset for easy reading.

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Rockville, MD: Wildside Press
-
ISBN 978-1-4344-8495-6
hardcover [no dustjacket] (22,5×15cm)
not dated [= 01/2011]
152
not priced [= $ 24.95]
Antonis Papantoniou
Pictorial boards. A complete photographic reprint, including the title page and the copyright page, of the 1966 Ballantine paperback (second printing). A print-on-demand publication.

Antonis Papantoniou
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Rockville, MD: Wildside Press
-
ISBN 978-1-4344-8494-9
trade paperback (21,5×14cm)
not dated [= 01/2011]
152
not priced [= $ 9.99]
Antonis Papantoniou
A complete photographic reprint, including the title page and the copyright page, of the 1966 Ballantine paperback (second printing). A print-on-demand publication.

Antonis Papantoniou
UK
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London: Sphere Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-7221-3440-1
paperback (18×11cm)
07/1976
157
£ 0.60
not credited [= Angus McKie]
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Angus McKie
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London: Sphere Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-7221-3440-1
paperback (18×11cm)
-/1983 (2nd)
157
£ 1.75
not credited [= Angus McKie]
-

Angus McKie
FRANCE
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French: L'odyssée verth
Paris: Presses Pocket
Science-Fiction No. 5125
ISBN 2-266-01093-X
paperback (17,5×11cm)
04/1982
03/1984
191
-
J.-P. Pugi
Wojtek Siudmak
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Wojtek Siudmak
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French: L'odyssée verte
Paris: Presses Pocket
Science-Fiction No. 5125
ISBN 2-266-02764-6
paperback (17,5×11cm)
12/1988
191
-
J.-P. Pugi
Wojtek Siudmak
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Wojtek Siudmak
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French: L'odyssée verte
Paris: Presses Pocket
Science-Fiction No. 5125
ISBN 2-266-02764-6
paperback (17,5×11cm)
02/1990
04/1992
191
-
J.-P. Pugi
Wojtek Siudmak
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Wojtek Siudmak
GERMANY
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German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
München: Moewig Verlag
Terra Sonderband Nr. 57
no ISBN
magazine (19,5×14cm)
-/1962
93
DM 1,00
Lothar Heinecke
not credited [= Karl Stephan]
Abriged version.

Karl Stephan
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German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
München: Heyne
Science Fiction, Band 3127
no ISBN
paperback (18×11,5cm)
-/1968
-/1969 (2nd)
158
-
Wulf H. Bergner
Atelier Heinrichs & Bachmann
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German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
in Welten der Zukunft (Band 4)
München: Heyne
Science Fiction, Band 1004
ISBN 3-453-31150-7
paperback (19×12,5cm)
-/1985
413
DM 10,00
Wulf H. Bergner
Karel Thole
Omnibus, together with novels by Chad Oliver and John Brunner.

Karel Thole
Title
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German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
in Unterwegs in die Welt von morgen
Stuttgart: Das Beste
Nr. 117
ISBN 3-87070-353-9
hardcover [no dustjacket] (20×13,5cm)
-/1990
383
-
Wulf H. Bergner
Image Bank
Pictorial boards. Omnibus, together with a novel by Alan Dean Foster. Silver lettering on the cover and the spine. PJF's novel is illustrated by Hans-Günter Hauptmann.

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German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
in Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
München: Heyne
Science Fiction, Band 4854
ISBN 3-453-05375-3
paperback (18×11,5cm)
-/1991 (1st)
-/1992 (2nd)
767
DM 16,80
Wulf H. Bergner
Boris Vallejo
Omnibus, together with The Stone God Awakens and Lord Tyger.

Boris Vallejo
Title
Omnibus
Publisher
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Format
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German: Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
in Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green
München: Heyne
Science Fiction, Band 4854
ISBN 3-453-05375-3
paperback (18×11,5cm)
-/1993 (3rd)
-/1994 (4th)
-/1996 (5th)
767
DM 18,90
Wulf H. Bergner
Boris Vallejo
Omnibus, together with The Stone God Awakens and Lord Tyger.

Boris Vallejo
ITALY
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Italian: Pianeta in via di sviluppo
Bologna: Libra
Slan (Il Meglio della Fantascienza) 2
no ISBN
hardcover (20,5×14cm)
03/1970
216
L 2.000
Gianni Aimach
Allison
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Allison
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Italian: Pianeta in via di sviluppo
Bologna: Libra
Slan (Il Meglio della Fantascienza) 2
no ISBN
hardcover (20,5×14cm)
03/1977 (2nd)
268
L 3.300
Gianni Aimach
Allison
With a sixteen pages long introduction by Ugo Malaguti.

Allison
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Italian: La rotta verde
Milan: Mondadori
Classici Urania N. 234
no ISBN (ISSN 1120-4966)
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
09/1996
222
L 6.500
Barbara Piccioli
Marco Patrito
With an introduction by Riccardo Valla and a selected bibliography.

Marco Patrito
JAPAN
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Japanese: 緑の星のオデッセイ
(Midori no Hoshi no Odyssey)
Tokyo: Hayakawa
SF 5
no ISBN
paperback (16×11cm)
08/1970
273
¥ 200
Toru Yano
Keizo Iwabuchi

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Keizo Iwabuchi
Title

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Japanese: 緑の星のオデッセイ
(Midori no Hoshi no Odyssey)
Tokyo: Hayakawa
SF 5
no ISBN
paperback (16×11cm)
07/1989 (2nd)
273
-
Toru Yano
?

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NETHERLANDS
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Dutch: Zwerfeilanden in het groen
Laren: Luitingh
SF Tijgerpocket 130
no ISBN
paperback (18×11,5cm)
not dated [= -/1968]
not dated [= -/1970] (2nd)
181
ƒ 2,95
Carl Lans
not credited [= Jack Gaughan]
The lettering on the spines of the two Dutch printings differ: the first printing has the author's name in red and the title in blue, these colors are exchanged on the second printing which also has smaller letters.
No indication in the book about a second printing.

Jack Gaughan
PORTUGAL
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Portuguese: A odisseia verde
Mem Martins: Publicações Europa-América
Ficção Científica 223
ISBN 972-1-04199-8
paperback (17,5×11,5cm)
-/1996
133
-
Luís Cadete
credited to "Studio P.E.A." [Actually: based on art by Peter Elson and Chris Moore.]
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Elson & Moore
RUSSIA
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Omnibus
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Russian: Одиссея Грина
in Одиссея Грина
Nizhny Novgorod: Parallel
Мир фантастики
ISBN 5-86067-008-9
hardcover [no dustjacket] (20×13cm)
-/1994
542
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A. Tachkov
Peter A. Jones
Pictorial boards. Omnibus, together with Inside Outside and Flesh, and two stories: "Open to Me, My Sister" and "Riders of the Purple Wage".

Peter A. Jones
Title
Omnibus
Publishers

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Russian: Одиссея Грина
in Ф.Фармер (4): Мир дней - 2
Moscow & St. Petersburg: Troll
St. Petersburg: Yuventa
Меч и посох
ISBN 5-87365-019-5
hardcover (22×14,5cm)
-/1995
624
-
A. Tachkov
photo: S.P. Bondarenko
Omnibus, together with Dayworld Breakup, Night of Light and The Gate of Time. Joined publication of two publishers (Troll and Yuventa), together with publisher Nauka.

S.P. Bondarenko
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Russian: Одиссея Грина
in Миры Филипа Фармера 18
Riga & Moscow: Polaris
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ISBN 5-88132-311-4
hardcover [no dustjacket] (20,5×13,5cm)
06/1997
384
-
O. Stepashkina
Hajime Sorayama [credited to V. Kovalev]
Pictorial boards. Omnibus, together with The Long Warpath and The Wind Whales of Ishmael.

Hajime Sorayama
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