Science
fiction novel.
Series: Wold Newton Universe.
Philip José Farmer's science fiction 'sequel' to Moby
Dick by Herman Melville.
Farmer planned to write sequels to this novel, see Announced books.
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Ishmael, lone survivor of the doomed whaling ship Pequod, falls through
a rift in time and space to a future Earth—an Earth of
blood-sucking vegetation and a blood-red sun, of barren canyons where
once the Pacific Ocean roared.
Here too there are whales to hunt—but whales that soar
through a dark blue sky....
Hugo Award-winner Philip José Farmer has spun a fascinating
tale of whaling ships and seamen of the sky in a bizarre future world
where there are no seas to sail and no safe harbor to call home....
(Ace 1981)
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FIRST PUBLICATION
New York, NY: Ace Books
SF, # 89237
SBN 441-89237-075
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
-/1971
157
$ 0.75
Kelly Freas
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Kelly Freas
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New York, NY: Ace Books
SF, # 89238
SBN 441-89238-125
paperback (18×10,5cm)
not dated [= 04/1976]
157
$ 1.25
not credited [= Bart Forbes]
No indication in the book that this is the second printing.
Bart Forbes
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New York, NY: Ace Books
SF, # 89239
ISBN 0-441-89239-6
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
not dated [= -/1977]
157
$ 1.50
not credited [= Bart Forbes]
No indication in the book that this is the third printing.
Bart Forbes
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New York, NY: Ace Books
SF, # 89240
ISBN 0-441-89240-X
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
not dated [= 12/1979]
157
$ 1.95
not credited [= Bart Forbes]
No indication in the book that this is the fourth printing.
Bart Forbes
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New York, NY: Ace Books
SF, # 89240
ISBN 0-441-89240-X
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
not dated [= 05/1981]
157
$ 1.95
not credited [= Paul Alexander]
Fourth printing —in a row of numbers— according to
the book, it's actually the fifth. The fourth and fifth printing share
the
same ISBN and price, but the fifth has a new cover illustration.
Paul Alexander
UK
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London: Quartet Books
Science Fantasy
ISBN 0-704-31035-X
paperback (18×11,5cm)
08/1973
130
£ 0.35
Bob Habberfield
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Bob Habberfield
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London: Quartet Books
Science Fantasy
ISBN 0-704-31035-X
paperback (17,5×11cm)
not dated [= 04/1974]
130
£ 0.40
not credited [= unknown]
The first edition of 1973 according to the book, it is actually the
second printing.
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London: Titan Books
Science Fiction / A Grand Master Novel
ISBN 978-1-78116-297-2
trade paperback (20,5×13cm)
03/2013
185
£ 7.99 (US $ 9.95)
not credited [= Crop]
With a Foreword by Michael Croteau and an Afterword by Danny Adams.
Crop
GERMANY
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German: Ismaels
fliegende Wale
München: Moewig
Science Fiction, Band 3508
ISBN 3-8118-3508-4
paperback (18×12,5cm)
-/1980
158
DM 5,80
Ronald M. Hahn
Norma/Pujolar
Illustrated by Klaus D. Schiemann. With an afterword by Hans
Joachim
Alpers.
Norma/Pujolar
ITALY
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Italian: Pianeta
d'aria
Rome: Fanucci
Futuro, Biblioteca di Fantascienza, 37
no ISBN
trade paperback (21×14cm)
03/1978
188
L 3.000
Alfredo Pollini
Bruce Pennington
With a list of the mayor Farmer publications in Italy, an
introduction by Gianfranco de Turris & Sebastiano Fusco, plus
an appendix, the 25 pages long article "Gli
universi letterari di Farmer" by Teo Mora.
Bruce Pennington
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Italian: Pianeta
d'aria
Rome: Fanucci
Biblioteca di Fantascienza 4
ISBN 88-347-0252-2
trade paperback (20,5×13,5cm)
06/1988
188
L 12.000
Alfredo Pollini
Colin Hay [credited to Bruce Pennington however]
With an introduction by Gianfranco de Turris & Sebastiano
Fusco, plus an appendix, the
25 pages long article "Gli universi letterari di Farmer" by Teo Mora.
Colin Hay
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Italian: Pianeta
d'aria
Rome: Fanucci
Biblioteca di Fantascienza 4
ISBN 88-347-0252-2
trade paperback (20,5×13,5cm)
07/1988
188
L 15.000
Alfredo Pollini
Colin Hay [credited to Bruce Pennington however]
With an introduction by Gianfranco de Turris & Sebastiano
Fusco, plus an appendix, the
25 pages long article "Gli universi letterari di Farmer" by Teo Mora.
Colin Hay
NETHERLANDS
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Dutch: De wereld van
de walvis
Amsterdam: Born
Science Fiction 45
ISBN 90-283-0315-4
paperback (17,5×11cm)
-/1972
192
ƒ 3,95
Peter Diderich
Alex Jagtenberg
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Alex Jagtenberg
RUSSIA
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Russian: Летающие
киты Исмаэля
in Летающие киты
Исмаэля
Moscow: Centerpoligraf
Osiris 19
ISBN 5-7001-0004-5
hardcover [no dustjacket] (20×14,5cm)
-/1992
587
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Pictorial boards. Omnibus, together with the novels Flesh and Night of Light and the
collection The Alley God,
plus an extra story "Open
To Me, My Sister".
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Russian: Небесные
киты Измаила
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
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L. Shabad
Hajime Sorayama [credited to V. Kovalev]
Pictorial boards. Omnibus, together with The
Green Odyssey and The Long
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Hajime Sorayama
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Russian: Летающие
киты Измаила
in Антология мировой фантастики. Том 2: Машина времени
Moscow: Avanta+
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ISBN 5-94623-039-5
hardcover [no dustjacket] (21.5×14,5cm)
-/2003
608
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Oleg Kolesnikov
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Spanish: Las
ballenas volantes de Ismael
Madrid: Miraguano
Futurópolis 16
ISBN 84-7813-047-0
trade paperback (19,5×13cm)
-/1989
158
Ps 890
Francisco Arellano
Rafael Estrada
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Rafael Estrada
UKRAINE
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Ukrainian: Летающие
киты Исмаэля
in Врата
времени
Kiev: Zovnishtorgvidav Ukraini
Vega
ISBN 5-85-025-080-0
hardcover (20,5×13cm)
-/1992
318
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