Forty Thousand in Gehenna
by C. J. Cherryh
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
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About This Item
First printing of this edition. Dust jacket has no tears or chips, but faded spine; now in new removable protective cover. Brown boards with blue print on tan spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Nelson Doubleday (imprint of Science Fiction Book Club) hardcover with dust jacket. First printing of this edition, June 1984 (code O22), SFBC #1881, 316 pages. Cover art by Ron Walotsky. 8vo (8.5" x 5.75") Book club reprint of limited first edition. 18th place, 1984 Locus Poll Award. First in series, followed by Cyteen, and Regenesis. Part of the author's Union-Alliance universe.
Synopsis
Forty Thousand in Gehenna, alternately 40,000 in Gehenna, is a 1983 novel by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. The science fiction novel is set in her Alliance-Union universe between 2354 and 2658 A.D. , and is one of the few works in that universe to portray the Union side (the other notable exceptions being Cyteen and Regenesis).
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- Seller
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 08041203SFBC1881CVB
- Title
- Forty Thousand in Gehenna
- Author
- C. J. Cherryh
- Illustrator
- Ron Walotsky
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first thus
- Publisher
- Nelson Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 316
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Union-Alliance
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction / Fantasy;
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