Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science

Overview:

  • Title: Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science
  • Author: Gregory Benford, George Zebrowski
  • Year: 2000
  • ISBN-10: 0151002924
  • Publisher: Harcourt
  • Price: $28.00
  • Pages: 355
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science
  • Notes:
    • Stated "First Edition"
    • First printing by letter line H G F E D C B A
    • The printing date is not stated. The copy right date is "2000". Locus1 is the source of the April 2000 publication date used in this ISFDB publication record. Amazon reports April 21, 2000.
    • Between pages 164 and 165 is "A Picture of Skylife" which is a set of eight glossy color pages with illustrations. These have been listed in ISFDB's contents as appearing on pages i to viii. The "A Picture of Skylife" title comes from the publication's Contents page though is not used in the body of the publication.
    • The six stories by Arthur C. Clarke on pages 57 to 76 have a collective title "The Other Side of the Sky" and are printed without page breaks at the start of each story
    • 'Jacket art "Spherical Space Station under Construction in Earth Orbit" by Chesley Bonestell' on rear flap, no visible signature on the artwork [the whole painting, in miniature and in mirror-image is repeated on the back cover]
    • $42.00 in Canada