Edd Cartier's illustration of the story in Unknown, October 1940
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre(s)
Science fiction
Publication
Published in
Unknown Fantasy Fiction
Media type
Print (Magazine)
Publication date
October, 1940
"The Wheels of If" is an alternate history science fiction story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in the magazine Unknown Fantasy Fiction for October, 1940,[1] and first appeared in book form in de Camp's collection The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction (Shasta, 1940).[2] It later appeared in the paperback edition of the collection published by Berkley Books in 1970,[3] in de Camp's subsequent collections The Virgin & the Wheels (Popular Library, 1976)[4] and Years in the Making: the Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp (NESFA Press, 2005), and in the anthology Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond (Galahad Books, 1989). It also appeared, together with a sequel by Harry Turtledove, in The Pugnacious Peacemaker/The Wheels of If (Tor Books, 1990) and Down in the Bottomlands and Other Places (Baen Books, 1999).[5] The story has also been translated into German.[1]
^ abLaughlin, Charlotte, and Levack, Daniel J. H. De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1983, page 261.
^Laughlin, Charlotte, and Levack, Daniel J. H. De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1983, pages 104, 261.
^Laughlin, Charlotte, and Levack, Daniel J. H. De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1983, page 104.
^Laughlin, Charlotte, and Levack, Daniel J. H. De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1983, pages 102, 261.
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