Science fiction novel.
DEDICATION: "In alphabetical order, to my granddaughters Andrea
Josephsohn and Kimberley Ladd; my daughter, Kristen; my grandson
Matthew Josephsohn; my son, Philip Laird; my granddaughter Stephanie
Josephsohn; my grandson Torin Paul Farmer. And to any descendants of my
wife, Bette Virginia Andre, and of myself fifteen billion years from
now, when this story takes place."
COVER TEXT:
Fifteen billion
years
from now, Earth is a dying planet - its skies darkened by the ashes of
burned-out galaxies, its molten core long cooled.
But young Deyv of the
Turtle Tribe knew nothing of his world's history or its fate. He lived
only to track down the wretched Yawtl, who had stolen his precious Soul
Egg. Together with Vana, a girl from another tribe, and the plant-man
Sloosh - both also victims of the same thief - they trailed the thief
across a nightmare landscape of monster-haunted jungle and wetland.
The
search for the Soul Eggs led the troupe into deeper and deeper peril -
first to the lair of Feersh the Blind, the witch who had ordered the
thefts; then to the Bright Abomination, the jeweled wasteland that
harbored The Shemibob, the ageless being from another star who knew
Earth's end was near... and held the key to the only way for any to
escape that end.
(Del Rey, paperback editions.)
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FIRST PUBLICATION
New York, NY: Ballantine Books / Del Rey
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ISBN 0-345-27684-1
hardcover (22×15cm)
09/1979
405
$ 9.95
Darrell K. Sweet
Hardcover with green paper boards and blue cloth spine. Silver
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New York, NY: Ballantine Books
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Rey
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-345-28950-1
paperback (18×10,5cm)
07/1980
405
$ 2.25
Darrell K. Sweet
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New York, NY: Ballantine Books
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Science Fiction
ISBN 0-345-29680-X
paperback (18×10,5cm)
11/1980 (2nd)
-/1982 (3rd)
405
$ 2.50
Darrell K. Sweet
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New York, NY: Ballantine Books
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Science Fiction
ISBN 0-345-33201-6
paperback (18×10,5cm)
08/1985 (4th)
405
$ 2.95
Darrell K. Sweet
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New York, NY: Ballantine Books
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Science Fiction
ISBN 0-345-33956-8
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01/1987 (5th)
405
$ 3.95
Darrell K. Sweet
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UK
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London: Granada
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ISBN 0-246-11378-2
hardcover (22,5×14cm)
01/1981
400
not priced [= £ 6.95]
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London: Granada / Panther
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05177-5
paperback (18×11cm)
03/1982
400
£ 1.95
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London: Granada / Panther
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05177-5
paperback (17,5×11cm)
-/1984 (2nd)
400
£ 1.95
Mike van Houten
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FRANCE
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French: Le soleil
obscur
Paris: J'ai Lu
Science-Fiction, No. 1257
ISBN 2-277-21257-1
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11/1981
382
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Iawa Tate
Boris Vallejo
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French: Le soleil
obscur
Paris: J'ai Lu
Science-Fiction, No. 1257
ISBN 2-277-21257-1
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12/1990
382
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Iawa Tate
Boris Vallejo
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French: Le soleil
obscur
Paris: J'ai Lu
Science-Fiction, No. 1257
ISBN 2-277-21257-1
paperback (16,5×11cm)
12/1994
382
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Iawa Tate
Boris Vallejo
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GERMANY
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German: Dunkel ist
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München: Moewig
Science Fiction, No. 3502
ISBN 3-8118-3502-5
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-/1980
414
DM 7,80
Sigrid Ehemann
Esteban Maroto
With an afterword by Hans Joachim Alpers.
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ITALIA
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Italian: Il sole nero
Milan: Nord
Cosmo. Collana di Fantascienza 124/125
no ISBN (later: ISBN 88-429-0129-6)
trade paperback [with dustjacket] (19,5×12,5cm)
07/1982
346
not priced [= L 7.000]
Roberta Rambelli
Darrell K. Sweet
With a foreword by Sandro Pergameno.
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Italian: Il sole nero
Milan: Nord
Tascabili Fantascienza 4
no ISBN (later: ISBN 88-429-0681-6)
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07/1991
346
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Roberta Rambelli
Darrell K. Sweet
With an illustration by Frank Frazetta.
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SLOVAKIA
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Slovak: Temné
slnko
Bratislava: Epos
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