Science
fiction novel.
Written as by Kilgore Trout
(pseudonym/fictional author).
Slightly expanded from the magazine version "Venus on the
Half-Shell".
Farmer introduces another fictional
author, Jonathan Swift
Somers III,
and his works about Ralph
von Wau Wau.
DEDICATION: "Dedicated to the beasts and the stars. They don't worry
about free will and immortality."
COVER TEXT:
WARNING: At the
end of this book you will find the Definitive Answer to the Ultimate
Question.
Simon Wagstaff
is the Space Wanderer, a seeker of truth and electric banjo player
who narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens
upon
an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho. A man without a planet,
he
gains immortality from an elixer drunk during a sexual interlude with a
cat-like alien queen in heat. Now, with his pet owl, his dog Anubis and
a
sexy robot companion, Simon charts a 3,000-year course to the most
distant corners of a multiverse full of surprises to seek out the
answers
to the questions no one can seem to answer.
(Bantam
edition.)
New York, NY: Dell
# 16149
ISBN
0-440-16149-5
paperback (18×11cm)
04/1977 (8th)
01/1978 (9th)
204
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New York, NY: Dell
SF, # 16149
ISBN
0-440-16149-5
paperback (18×11cm)
11/1978 (10th)
204
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New York, NY: Dell/Laurel
SF, # 36149
ISBN
0-440-36149-4
paperback (18×11cm)
01/1980 (1st)
204
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New York, NY: Dell/Laurel
SF, # 36149
ISBN
0-440-36149-4
paperback (17,5×11cm)
05/1981 (2nd)
204
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New York, NY: Dell
SF, # 16149
ISBN
0-440-16149-5
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12/1983 (3rd)
05/1984 (4th)
204
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New York, NY: Bantam Spectra
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-553-27531-3
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
09/1988
178
$ 3.95
Enric
Published under
Farmer's own name. With a special introduction
,"Why and How I
Became Kilgore Trout", by
Farmer.
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Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books
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ISBN 0-89968-306-1
hardcover [no dustjacket] (22,5×14,5cm)
not dated [= -/1996]
204
$ 27.95
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London: W.H. Allen / Star Books
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ISBN 0-352-39846-9
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05/1976
207
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London: Granada / Panther Books
Science Fiction
ISBN
0-586-05454-5
paperback (18×11cm)
10/1982
207
£ 1.50
Gareth Williams
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FRANCE
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French: Le
privé du cosmos
Paris: J.-C. Lattès
(Science-Fiction 13)
no ISBN
trade paperback (21,5×13,5cm)
01/1977
251
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Iawa Tate
Lionel Charpy
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French: Le
privé du cosmos
Paris: J.-C.Lattès
Titres SF 10
no ISBN
paperback (18×11cm)
06/1979
249
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Iawa Tate
Jean-Michel Nicollet
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French: Le
privé du cosmos
Paris: Presses Pocket
Science-Fiction No. 5291
ISBN 2-266-02193-1
paperback (18×11cm)
06/1988
249
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Iawa Tate
Wojtek Siudmak
Published under Farmer's own name. With an introduction
by
Farmer.
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French: Le
privé du cosmos
Paris: Presses Pocket
Science-Fiction No. 5291
ISBN 2-266-04186-X
paperback (18×11cm)
03/1992
249
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Iawa Tate
Wojtek Siudmak
Published under Farmer's own name. With an introduction
by
Farmer.
GERMANY
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German: Geburt
der Venus
München: Knaur
Science Fiction, Band 5784
ISBN 3-426-05784-0
paperback (18×11,5cm)
10/1984
206
DM 6,80
Joachim Körber
Wojtek Siudmak
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ITALY
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Italian: Venere
sulla conchiglia
Milan: Mondadori
Urania 693
no ISBN
paperback (19×13cm)
03/1976
152
L 600
Angela Campana
Karel Thole
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Italian: Lo spaziale
errante
in 10 Chiavi per lo spazio
Milan: Mondadori
-
no ISBN
hardcover [no dustjacket] (22×14,5cm)
04/1979
518
L 7.500
Angela Campana
Karel Thole
Omnibus, with stories or novels by Jerome Bixby, Murray Leinster,
Edmond Hamilton, Joanna Russ and several others.
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Italian: Venere
sulla conchiglia
Milan: Mondadori
Classici Urania 87
no ISBN
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06/1984
188
L 3.000
Angela Campana
Karel Thole
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Italian: Venere
sulla conchiglia
Milan: Mondadori
Urania Collezione 015
no ISBN
paperback (18×13cm)
04/2004
258
€ 4,90
Angela Campana
Franco Brambilla
Published under Farmer's own name. With an introduction
by Valerio Evangelisti, an introduction
by Farmer, and an article
about Farmer by Riccardo Valla.
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Japanese: 貝殻の上のヴィーナス
(Kaigara no Ue no Venus)
Tokyo: Hayakawa
SF 385
ISBN 4-15-010385-2
paperback (16×11cm)
04/1980
289
¥ 340
Hitoshi Yasuda
Gadino
Published as by Kilgore Trout.
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ROMANIA
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Romanian: Venus
ieşind din valuri
Bucharest: Nemira
Nautilus #107
ISBN 973-9301-13-4
trade paperback (20×12,5cm)
09/1997
222
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Niculita Damaschin
Dragos Gheorghiu
Published under Farmer's own name. With an introduction
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Spanish: Venus en la
concha
Madrid: Francisco Arellano
Colección Delirio
ISBN 84-85145-02-X
trade paperback (19×13,5cm)
-/1977
191
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Jesús Gómez García
Francisco Arellano
Published as by Kilgore Trout / Philip José Farmer.
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Spanish: Venus en la
concha
in Ciencia
ficción
selección 31
Barcelona: Bruguera
Libro Amigo 523
ISBN 84-02-05218-5
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
07/1977
191
Ps 100
José Manuel Pomares & Homero Alsina
Jorge Sánchez
Including the story "Skinburn"
and the poem "The
Pterodactyl". With a foreword by Carlo Frabetti.
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Swedish: Stjärnsnäckan
Stockholm: Delta
Science fiction (#33)
ISBN 91-7228-080-8
trade paperback (20×13,5cm)
-/1975
250
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Gunnar Gällmo
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Turkish: İstiridye
Kabuğundaki
Venüs
Istanbul: Ithaki Yayinlari
Bilimkurgu - 45
ISBN 975-8725-27-0
paperback (18×11cm)
-/2003
285
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not credited [= Hajime Sorayama]
Published under Farmer's own name. With an introduction
by Dr. Sönmez Güven.
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