The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories
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Overview:
- Title: The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Year: 2011
- ISBN-10: 9780486482897
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Price: $3.00
- Pages: vi+109
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The New Accelerator
- Notes:
- Revised Dover ed.
- Publication date, format, price, cover image from Amazon.com as of 2011-03-19.
- Most other data from "Look inside" at Amazon.com 2011-04-19, which now reports $3.00 (no change) and:
-- "Paperback – April 21, 2011"
-- "Dover Publications; Green ed. edition (May 19, 2011)"
Amazon now provides "Look inside" that contains the copyright page, Contents list, front/back covers, and both Gardner essays: -- Introduction, p[v]-vi -- Afterword, p[99]-109 The copyright statement, (c)1997 only by Gardner), presents a puzzle in conjunction with this note (quote entirely): Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 1997 and revised and reissued in 2011, is a new selection by Martin Gardner of six stories reprinted from standard sources. Mr. Gardner has also written a new Introduction and Afterword specially for this edition.
The selection of 6 stories is not new, as it matches the 1997 Dover Thrift Edition, also introduced by Gardner (see). Page numbers differ. Gardner died at age 96 in May 1910. 2011 dates for the Introduction and Afterword should be checked by comparison of the editorial contents.
Jim Miller is "Editor of This Volume" of Dover Thrift Editions. Possibly the text by Wells is corrected or Gardner left the editorial work unfinished.