Circus World

TitleCircus World
Year for Search1980
AuthorsLongyear, Barry B[rookes](b. 1942)
Date Published1980
PublisherNelson Doubleday
Place PublishedGarden City, NY
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Eutopia depicting the society created by circus performers when their ship crashed on the planet Momus.

Additional Publishers

This is the Science Fiction Book Club Edition published by arrangement with Berkley Pub. Co., but the first New York: Berkley Books ed. is 1981. U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1982. Originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine as "The Tryouts." 2.6 (10) (November-December 1978): 22-37; "The Second Law." 3.1 (11) (January 1979): 24-54; "Proud Rider." (February 1979): 102-27, "Dueling Clowns." 3.3 (13) (March 1979): 49-54; "The Quest." 3.5 (May 1979): 154-83; and "Priest of the Baraboo." 3.7 (17) (July 1979): 22-59. One story, "The Magician's Apprentice," was published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Adventure Magazine 1.2 (2) (Spring 1979): 35-54.

Holding Institutions

Merril, PSt

Author Note

(b. 1942)

Full Text

1980 Longyear, Barry B[rookes] (b. 1942). Circus World. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday. This is the Science Fiction Book Club Edition published by arrangement with Berkley Pub. Co., but the first New York: Berkley Books ed. is 1981. U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1982. Originally published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine as “The Tryouts.” 2.6 (10) (November-December 1978): 22-37; “The Second Law.” 3.1 (11) (January 1979): 24-54; “Proud Rider.” (February 1979): 102-27, “Dueling Clowns.” 3.3 (13) (March 1979): 49-54; “The Quest.” 3.5 (May 1979): 154-83; and “Priest of the Baraboo.” 3.7 (17) (July 1979): 22-59. One story, “The Magician’s Apprentice,” was published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Adventure Magazine 1.2 (2) (Spring 1979): 35-54. Merril, PSt

Eutopia depicting the society created by circus performers when their ship crashed on the planet Momus.