Countdown to Midnight: Twelve Great Stories About Nuclear War
| First published | 1984 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | DAW Books |
| Format | Paperback |
| Type | Anthology |
| Catalog ID | UE1983 |
| Cover art | Vincent Di Fate |
| Pages | 287 |
| Price | $2.95 |
| ISBN | 0879979836 |
• "First Printing, December 1984/123456789"
• Cover art credited to DiFate on copyright page, cover is also signed
• DAW Collectors' Book No. 600 on copyright page, No. 608 on the cover [latter is correct]
• DAW catalog #UE1983
• Akua Nuten (The South Wind) translated by Howard Roiter.
• Mikhail Yemtsev's first name is misspelt Mikhael on story title page but correctly everywhere else including page headers
• Joe Haldeman is spelled without the middle initial throughout
• Each story has untitled prefatory material
• $3.50 in Canada.
| Year | Reviewer | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Larry D. Woods | Fantasy Review, January 1985 |
Searching by ISBN: 0879979836
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Nuclear War and Science Fiction | H. Bruce Franklin | Essay |
| 29 | To Still the Drums | Chandler Davis | Short Story |
| 48 | Thunder and Roses | Theodore Sturgeon | Novelette |
| 76 | That Only a Mother | Judith Merril | Short Story |
| 88 | Lot | Ward Moore | Novelette |
| 120 | Afterword to Lot | H. Bruce Franklin | Essay |
| 121 | I Kill Myself | Julian Kawalec | Short Story |
| 131 | The Neutrino Bomb | Ralph S. Cooper | Short Story |
| 134 | Akua Nuten | Yves Thériault | Short Story |
| 146 | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | Harlan Ellison | Short Story |
| 166 | Countdown | Kate Wilhelm | Short Story |
| 180 | The Big Flash | Norman Spinrad | Novelette |
| 207 | Everything But Love | Mikhail Yemtsev & Eremei Parnov | Novella |
| 267 | To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal | Joe Haldeman | Short Story |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
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| Countdown to Midnight: Twelve Great Stories About Nuclear War |
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1984 | DAW Books / New American Library of Canada | Paperback | Anthology | UE1983 | Vincent Di Fate | 287 |