The Nine Billion Names of God

Overview:

  • Title: The Nine Billion Names of God
  • Author: Arthur C. Clarke
  • Year: 1980
  • ISBN-10: 0451089995
  • Publisher: Signet / New American Library
  • Price: $1.95
  • Pages: 240
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Sentinel
  • Notes:
    Eighth printing of the June 1974 edition.
    Month of publication from Locus #238 (October 1980).
    No year of publication stated in the volume. Printing asserted by number line.
    The Introduction is signed ''Arthur C. Clarke'' and dated ''New York / August 1966''.
    Several of the stories have short prefatory notes by Clarke. All are signed with month, year and name of a city.
    The cover is identical to the one of the first Signet edition, except for the different price, the different catalogue number (J8999) and the inscription ''OVER 6 MILLION ARTHUR C. CLARKE BOOKS IN PRINT'' which replaces ''By the Author of 2001''.
    ISBN stated only in bottom of the spine.