To Open the Sky
| First published | 1967 |
|---|---|
| Series | Blue Fire |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
| Format | Paperback |
| Type | Novel |
| Catalog ID | U6093 |
| Cover art | Richard Powers (artist) |
| Pages | 222 |
| Price | $0.75 |
Fix-up Novel or collection based on:
- Blue Fire • (1965) • novelette with 2077 appended to the title.
- The Warriors of Light • (1965) • novelette with 2095 appended to the title.
- Where the Changed Ones Go • (1966) • novelette with 2135 appended to the title.
- Lazarus Come Forth! • (1966) • novelette with 2152 appended to the title.
- Open the Sky • (1966) • novelette with the new title: "To Open the Sky: 2164".
- "First Edition: May, 1967"
- Printing not stated, no number line
- The artist is not credited, no visible signature
- Cover credited by Jane Frank in "The Art of Richard Powers," 2001, ISBN 1-85585-890-8.
- Printed in the US
- OCLC, along with Contento1, lists this as a collection of five novellas
| Year | Reviewer | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | P. Schuyler Miller | Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, June 1968 |
| 1971 | Mark Adlard | Vector 57 |
| 1977 | Philip Stephensen-Payne | Paperback Parlour, December 1977 |
| 1985 | Michel Levert | Proxima [France], #8 |
| 1985 | Edward James | Paperback Inferno, #54 |
| 1986 | Paul McGuire | Science Fiction Review, Spring 1986 |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
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1967 | Ballantine Books | Paperback | Novel | U6093 | Richard Powers (artist) | 222 |
| To Open the Sky |
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1970 | Sphere Books | Paperback | Novel | 78409 | 202+[1] | |
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1970 | Ballantine Books | Paperback | Novel | Tom Adams | 222 | |
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1977 | Sphere | Paperback | Novel | Peter Elson | 203 | |
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1977 | Gregg Press | Hardcover | Novel | xi+222 | ||
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1978 | Berkley Books | Paperback | Novel | Paul Alexander | [14]+209 | |
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1983 | Sphere | Paperback | Novel | Peter Elson | 203 | |
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1984 | Bantam Books | Paperback | Novel | Jim Burns | 222 | |
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1989 | Sphere | Paperback | Novel | Josh Kirby | 203 | |
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1999 | Pulpless.Com | Trade Paperback | Novel | Billy Tackett | 234 | |
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2011 | Gateway / Orion | eBook | Novel | |||
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2014 | Open Road Integrated Media | eBook | Novel | |||
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2023 | Three Ravens Publishing | Trade Paperback | Novel | 261 |