Starships

Overview:

  • Title: Starships
  • Author: Charles G. Waugh, Martin Harry Greenberg, Isaac Asimov
  • Year: 1983
  • ISBN-10: 0449201260
  • Publisher: Fawcett Crest / Ballantine
  • Price: $3.50
  • Pages: 342
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Starships
  • Notes:
    • "First Ballantine Books Edition: May 1983" • Printing not stated, no number line • The artist is not credited, Sternbach's S inside a box is on the artwork • The TOC is split into three sections [not repeated in the book], each section with subtitles [also not repeated in the book] for each story in the section
      The Complement:
        Captain [Cordwainer Smith] Crew [Richard McKenna] Passengers [Robert Sheckley] Cargo [Christopher Anvil]
      The Type:
        Time Relativity Ships [Doris Pitkin Buck] Generation Ships [Frank M. Robinson] Suspended Animation Ships [A. E. Van Vogt] Cybernetic Ships [Anne McCaffrey] Faster Than Light/Hyperspace Ships [James V. McConnell, note that the story title page drops the 'V.']
      The Events:
        First Contact [A. Bertram Chandler] Inspection [Eric Frank Russell] Disaster [Isaac Asimov] Combat [Fred Saberhagen]
    • The page numbers in the TOC correspond to a brief one-paragraph 'about-the author' that precedes the story title page and text by two pages, the latter numbers are used in the contents below • Only the US price is printed on the cover, a Ballantine Books Canada [BBC] sticker gives the Price In Canada as $4.25 [there is also an edition printed in Canada] • Printed in the US