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The Custodian

William Tenn

First published November 1953
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Notes

Word count of the first magazine appearance in "If" gives a word count of about 8600 using a sampling of five lines from 12 different pages.

Publications (20)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1953 If, November 1953 Quinn Publishing Company, Inc.; Buffalo, NY MAGAZINE 4
March 1954 If, No. 5 Strato Publications MAGAZINE 5
February 1955 Of All Possible Worlds Ballantine Books Collection 138
February 1955 Of All Possible Worlds Ballantine Books Collection 138
1956 Of All Possible Worlds Michael Joseph Collection 158
June 1960 Of All Possible Worlds Ballantine Books Collection 138
1963 Of All Possible Worlds Mayflower-Dell Collection 119
1966 Masters' Choice Simon & Schuster Anthology 293
August 1966 Of All Possible Worlds Mayflower-Dell Collection 119
1968 Masters' Choice Herbert Jenkins Anthology
June 1968 Of All Possible Worlds Ballantine Books Collection 138
1969 Masters' Choice 2 Tandem Anthology 9
January 1971 18 Greatest Science Fiction Stories Tempo Books / Grosset & Dunlap Anthology 274
September 1978 Time of Passage Taplinger Anthology 273
October 1978 Time of Passage Robert Hale Anthology
July 1981 Catastrophes! Fawcett Crest Anthology 67
February 2001 Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 1 NESFA Press Collection 581
July 2001 Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 1 NESFA Press Collection 581
September 2002 Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn, Volume 1 NESFA Press / SFBC Collection 581
July 2013 Of All Possible Worlds Gateway / Orion Collection