The Planet On The Table

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"The Planet On The Table"

A short story collection by Kim Stanley Robinson

Cover of the 1986 Tor edition, art by Michael Tedesco

First published

July 1986

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The Planet On The Table is Kim Stanley Robinson's first short story collection. It consists of an introduction and 8 short stories, all of which were previously published in magazines. It contains the following stories:

Venice Drowned
Mercurial
Ridge Running
The Disguise
The Lucky Strike
Coming Back to Dixieland
Stone Eggs
Black Air

The title of the collection shares its name with the 1953 poem from Wallace Stevens.

[edit] Publication History

Tor Books, hardcover, July 1986
Tor Books, paperback, July 1987
Futura, paperback, August 1987
J'ai Lu, as La Planète Sur La Table (French translation), May 1988
Bastei-Lübbe, as Geschöpfe der Sonne (German translation), 1988
Editorial Caminho, as O Planeta sobre a Mesa (Portuguese translation), 1989
Tor Orb, included in Remaking History And Other Stories, August 1994
J'ai Lu, as La Planète Sur La Table (French translation), January 1999

[edit] Cover Gallery

News from Tor Books, 1986	Tor Books, Advance Uncorrected Proof, 1986	Tor Books, Hardcover, July 1986, cover art by Michael Tedesco
Tor Books, Paperback, July 1987, cover art by Michael Tedesco	Orbit Books, paperback, August 1987, cover art by Peter Elson	J'ai Lu, May 1988 (France), cover art by Michelangelo Miani
Bastei-Lübbe, 1988 (Germany), cover art by David B. Mattingly	Editorial Caminho, 1989 (Portugal)	Tor Orb, August 1994, cover art by Peter Gudynus
J'ai Lu, January 1999 (France), cover art by Michelangelo Miani