- The Starmen
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name = The Starmen
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author =Leigh Brackett
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cover_artist = Ric Binkley
country =United States
language = English
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genre =Science fiction novel
publisher =Gnome Press
release_date = 1952
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media_type = Print (Hardcover )
pages = 247 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 1722293
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followed_by ="The Starmen" is a
science fiction novel by authorLeigh Brackett . It was published in 1952 byGnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. It was also published byBallantine Books in 1976 under the original magazine title of "The Starmen of Llyrdis".Ace Books published an abridged edition under the title "The Galactic Breed". The Ace edition was published as anAce Double with "Conquest of the Space Sea" byRobert Moore Williams . The novel was originally serialized in the magazine "Startling Stories " in 1951.Plot introduction
The novel is a
space opera concerning the only race that is able to endure the rigors of interstellar travel.References
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