Star Colony

This book presents itself as being the first volume of a three volume history of the planet Colmar. Only this first volume exists. The beginning of the book contains material making it look as if this is an academic history, explaining the supposed background of how the book came to be written and acknowledging many people for their academic contributions.

Stated first edition and first printing. No publication date stated, only the copyright date of 1981. The OCLC record is dated 1981-04-22, so the publication date is assumed to be 1981. According to the listing in Locus #253 (February 1982), the book did not appear until January 1982. Reginald3 has 1981; Clute/Nicholls 1982 Jacket design by Irv Freeman.