Address: Centauri

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Address: Centauri

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author F. L. Wallace
Cover artist Ed Emshwiller
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Gnome Press
Publication date 1955
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 220 pp
ISBN NA
OCLC 1850623

Address: Centauri is a science fiction novel by author F. L. Wallace. It was published in 1955 by Gnome Press in an edition of 4,000 copies. The novel is an expansion of Wallace's story "Accidental Flight" which first appeared in the magazine Galaxy Science Fiction in 1952.

[edit] Plot introduction

The novel concerns people with incurable injuries and defects who volunteer for the first interstellar flight.

[edit] References

  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 304. 
  • Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 443. ISBN 0-911682-22-8.