Thorns

Robert Silverberg

first published 1967 Bantam Books, 1983 paperback 224 pages

Gollancz SF collector's edition

Duncan Chalk's six-hundred-pound frame is nearly as large as his media empire. Beneath the depths of his immense rolls of flab, the fabulously wealthy mogul wields the editorial power to deliver his programming across the solar system to billions of viewers. His newest real-life romance drama is between a starman who survived painful surgical experimentation while in alien captivity, and an emotionally scarred 17-yea...

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Thorns audiobook · 2015 · Skyboat Media · 1 pages · 9781504633802
Thorns edition · 2014 · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781497632448
Thorns edition · 2014 · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781497632455
Thorns edition · 2011 · Gateway · 320 pages · 9780575106062
Thorns paperback · 2000 · Gollancz · 224 pages · 9780575071469
Thorns. edition · 1987 · Futura · 158 pages
Thorns paperback · 1983 · Bantam Books · 224 pages · 9780553235739
Thorns paperback · 1979 · Del Rey · 9780345279682
Thorns paperback · 1977 · New English Library · 160 pages · 9780450031939
Thorns paperback · 1970 · Ballantine Books · 9780345220264
Thorns edition · 1969 · Rapp + Whiting · 222 pages
Thorns paperback · 1967 · Ballantine Books · 222 pages · 9780345234476

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