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Added: 2010
Condition: pretty beat
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Condition: pretty beat |
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FIEBERNDE PLANET
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ORIGINAL TITLE:
The Currents of Space
© 1952
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AUTHOR(S):
ASIMOV,
ISAAC
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PUBLISHER (TOP):
GOLDMANN
ISBN:
none / Zukunftsroman
Z 1
YEAR:
1960
FORMAT:
paperback with dustjacket
LANGUAGE:
german
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TRANSLATOR(S):
Iris & Rolf H. Foester
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COVER ILLUSTRATION (TOP):
Herbert
Lorenz
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PUBLISHER (BOTTOM):
GOLDMANN
ISBN:
none / WTB 01
YEAR:
1962
FORMAT:
paperback with dustjacket
LANGUAGE:
german
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COVER ILLUSTRATION (BOTTOM):
Eyke
Volkmer |
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Content:
Set within the "Trantor" universe, "Planet
with a fever" (re-translating the german title) is
set on two planets, Sark and Florina. Sark is exploiting
Florina's most valuable ressource, "kyrt", keeping
the locals under the thumb.
In the universe Asimov has created, mankind has spread
out through the galaxy (of course, earth as the mother
planet is but a myth and radioactive), and differences
like skin colour are largely forgotten. Except for the
people of Sark, who hold on to a more archaic set-up.
As a very interesting article on wikipedia points out,
there are many similarities between Sark/Florina and South
America during the cotton picking era. I recommend you
check out that article here.
In the german translation, the novel is announced as a
"utopian mystery". The top image on the left
is a paperback in plain grey cover with a dust-jacket.
The series "Goldmanns Zukunftsromane" came in
those and in hardcovers with blue linen and dust jacket.
The sizes of the hardcovers varied slightly. The cover
illustration is credited to Herbert Lorenz, but was probably
done by Eyke Volkmer, who airbrushed all of the "Welraumtaschenbücher"
(see the picture below) and who said that he started out
working for Lorenz, doing the blue/orange covers first,
later taking over the four-colour versions as well.
All covers of the series "Goldmanns Weltraum Taschenbücher"
can be found here:
www.weltraumtaschenbuch.de
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