334/Editions
This is a partial list that doesn't include translations. For more details, see ISFDB.
All the notes on the rest of this site refer to the 1999 Vintage Books edition.
US
New York: Vintage Books (Random House), 1999. Trade paperback. Cover photograph (by Elliot Erwitt): shining TV in dismal room. ISBN 0375705449
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1987. Paperback. Cover illustration (by Roy Colmer): horrifying upside-down screaming face. ISBN 0881843407
Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Hardcover - exact reprint of the Avon Books paperback edition. Introduction by M. John Harrison, frontispiece illustration by Richard Powers. ISBN 0839823312
New York: Avon Books, 1974. Paperback. Cover illustration (unknown artist): lascivious woman on couch watching TV. Subtitled "The bold, innovative novel of city existence."
UK & Australia
London: Littlehampton Book Services, 1982. Paperback. ISBN 0417060807
Australia: Magnum, 1981. Paperback. Cover illustration: big chrome numbers. ISBN 0417060807
London: Sphere, 1974. Paperback. Cover illustration (by Tony Roberts): a spaceship?! ISBN 0722129734
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1972. Hardcover. Dust jacket illustration (by Michael Hasted): apartment building as mainframe computer. ISBN 0261632833
Textual differences
There are a few differences between earlier and later editions that might either be corrections, or misguided "corrections" by an over-zealous copyeditor— in speculative fiction, it's not always easy to tell what is a mistake. Here's how the Vintage trade paperback (B) differs from all the previous US editions (A):
- "US gorillas" (A) -> "US guerrillas" (B)
- "mickeymouse" (A) -> "Mickey Mouse" (B)
- "sexlife" (A) -> "sex life" (B)