Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System

Overview:

• Title: Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System
• Author: Mike Ashley
• Year: 2020
• ISBN-10: 9780712353564
• Publisher: British Library Publishing
• Price: £8.99
• Pages: 334
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Anthology
• Title Reference: Wait It Out
• Notes:
  • Copyright page statements:
    • This collection first published in 2020 by [over] The British Library.
    • Selection, introduction and notes (c) 2020 Mike Ashley
    • The frontispiece illustration and illustrations on pages 10, 38, 88, 108, 214, 238, 258, 284 and 320 are reproduced from Sur les Autre Mondes by Lucien Rudaux.
    • The illustrations and caption on page 168 are reproduced from The New Book of Knowledge edited by Sir John Hammerton.
    • Front cover illustration: Nova melting a hypothetical planet, 1950 by Chesley Bonestell.
    • Front cover design by Jason Anscomb
  • No printing number stated.
  • Month and day from Amazon UK.
  • The product pages at Waterstones, and for the Kindle publication on Amazon UK, state that this is volume 14 in the British Library Science Fiction Classics publication series. The printed book does not indicate the book series number anywhere.
  • Story introductions contain "[...] a history of each world in both fact and fiction." (citation from main introduction) as well as a brief biography of the respective story's author.
  • Story titles and authors given on the page where the introductions start.
  • "Foundling on Venus" as by "John and Dorothy De Courcy" on page 89.
  • "A Baby on Neptune" as by "Clare Winger Harris & Miles J. Breuer" on page 285.