Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1974. First edition. Purple remainder spray on bottom edge of text block, a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169509) (30131). Octavo, cloth. "In this wild fantasy, the lavish use of nuclear weapons has caused distortions in the space-time continuum which bounce the characters from era to era. This effect is used mainly to create various incongruities after the manner of Aldiss's post-psychedelic war novel BAREFOOT IN THE HEAD (1972)." - Brains, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 112. "An over-the-top comic romp which unfortunately fails to amuse. One of Aldiss's few duds." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 117. The Doubleday edition and the later Cape edition have minor textual differences.

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Bookseller: John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 30131
Title: THE EIGHTY-MINUTE HOUR: A SPACE OPERA
Author: Aldiss, Brian W[ilson]
Book Condition: Used - Purple remainder spray on bottom edge of text block, a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169509) (30131)
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Place of Publication: Garden City
Date Published: 1974
Keywords: SF

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