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Spectrum IV : a fourth science fiction anthology

by Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest

The fourth and final volume in a series of science fiction anthologies, this 1972 collection contains fourteen speculative short stories originally published between 1942 and 1964.

Accession 9225 ISBN 033020193X Publisher Pan
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