Starquake

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Overview:

Title: Starquake
Author: Robert L. Forward
Year: 1986
Publisher: Del Rey / Ballantine / SFBC
Price: $5.98
Pages: 247
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Starquake
Notes:
• First SFBC edition (not stated) • First printing has gutter code "Q06" [verified] on page 245, indicates a February '86 printing date. • Cover painting by Ralph McQuarrie. • There is a "Technical Appendix" written in essay form at the end of the novel but is fiction (though it references both real and fictitious publications).