The Year of the Ransom

Overview:

• Title: The Year of the Ransom
• Author: Poul Anderson
• Year: 1988
• ISBN-10: 0802768008
• Publisher: Walker & Co.
• Price: $15.95
• Pages: 169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Chapter Book
• Title Reference: The Year of the Ransom
• Notes:
  • No statement of edition on the copyright page, but there is a complete number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
  • The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (1988), the ISBNs of this hardcover edition (0-8027-6800-8) and a paperback edition (0-8027-6801-6), and the LCCN (87-29054). There is no record of a paperback printing of this edition.
  • Month of publication from Locus1.
  • "Illustrated by Paul Rivoche" (over) [Millennium logo] (over) "Millennium" (over) "A Byron Preiss Book" (over) [Walker logo] (over) "Walker and Company" (over) "New York".
  • "Cover painting by Paul Rivoche." (over) "Book design by Alex Jay/Studio J" (over) "Book edited by David M. Harris" stated on the copyright page.
  • "Book and Cover design by Alex Jay" (over) "Cover painting by Paul Rivoche" (over) "Logo design by Lebbeus Woods" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
  • There are six double-page B&W illustrations by Rivoche.
  • There are less than 110 pages of text with large print and wide margins, so there's a possibility that this is a novella and should be treated as a chapterbook. A rough word count makes it 25,000 words.
  • The Millennium series numbering is not stated in the book itself, but this title is the sixth listed on the page facing the title page.