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== US ==
 
== US ==
  
Serialized in three parts in ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'': {{ISFDB|61102|February}}, {{ISFDB|61271|March}}, and {{ISFDB|60967|April}} 1979.
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{{Edition tile|image=OWOS-cover-fsf.jpg|desc=Serialized in three parts in ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'': {{ISFDB|61102|February}}, {{ISFDB|61271|March}}, and {{ISFDB|60967|April}} 1979.|cover-by=Ed Emshwiller}}
 
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{{Edition tile|image=OWOS-cover-st-martins.jpg|desc=St. Martin's Press, 1979. Hardcover.|cover-by=Michael Mariano|isbn=0312584660}}
St. Martin's Press, 1979. Hardcover. Cover art (by Michael Mariano): blackface singer, piano keys, spotlight. (Nitpick: the artist has painted Daniel with two pink spots on his cheeks, which is a look he has for a while, but not in his performing career.) {{ISBN|0312584660}}
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{{Edition tile|image=OWOS-cover-bantam-1980.jpg|desc=Bantam Books, 1980. Paperback.|cover-by=Lou Feck|isbn=0553136674}}
 
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{{Edition tile|image=OWOS-cover-bantam-1985.jpg|desc=Bantam Books, 1985. Paperback.|cover-by=Kid Kane|isbn=0553250760}}
Bantam Books, 1980. Paperback. Cover art (by Lou Feck): fresh-faced Iowa kid physically soaring above the countryside. {{ISBN|0553136674}}
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{{Edition tile|image=OWOS-cover-bantam-1985.jpg|desc=Carroll & Graf, 1988. Trade paperback.|cover-by=same as 1985, alas|isbn=0881844438}}
 
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{{Edition tile|image=OWOS-cover-easton.jpg|desc=Easton Press, 1993. Trade paperback. Cover art & illustrations by Pat Morrissey, introduction by James K. Morrow. No ISBN.}}
Bantam Books, 1985. Paperback. Cover art (by Kid Kane): a sort of vinyl cyberpunk boy-band dude flying above a city, wtf. {{ISBN|0553250760}}
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{{Edition tile|image=OWOS-cover-carroll-graf.jpg|desc=Carroll & Graf, 2003. Trade paperback.|isbn=0786711221}}
 
 
Carroll & Graf, 1988. Trade paperback. Same cover art as the 1985 Bantam, alas. {{ISBN|0881844438}}
 
 
 
Easton Press, 1993. Hardcover, leatherbound limited edition. Illustrations and cover art by Pat Morrissey, introduction by James K. Morrow. No ISBN.
 
 
 
Carroll & Graf, 2003. Trade paperback. Cover art (artist unknown): impressionistic cityscape, ghostly figure. {{ISBN|0786711221}}
 
  
 
== UK & Australia ==
 
== UK & Australia ==

Revision as of 15:28, 24 January 2025

Details and images in this list are mainly derived from ISFDB, which has fuller information.

US

Serialized in three parts in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: February, March, and April 1979. Cover art: Ed Emshwiller.
St. Martin's Press, 1979. Hardcover. Cover art: Michael Mariano. ISBN 0312584660
Bantam Books, 1980. Paperback. Cover art: Lou Feck. ISBN 0553136674
Bantam Books, 1985. Paperback. Cover art: Kid Kane. ISBN 0553250760
Carroll & Graf, 1988. Trade paperback. Cover art: same as 1985, alas. ISBN 0881844438
Easton Press, 1993. Trade paperback. Cover art & illustrations by Pat Morrissey, introduction by James K. Morrow. No ISBN.
File:OWOS-cover-carroll-graf.jpg
Carroll & Graf, 2003. Trade paperback. ISBN 0786711221

UK & Australia

Gollancz, 1979. Hardcover. Cover art (by Malcolm Ashman): an angel in distress. ISBN 0575025476

Magnum, 1981. Paperback. Cover art (by Chris Moore): gaudily futuristic singer in metal headgear and shackles. ISBN 0417055803

E-book

Chu Hartley Publishers, 2016. No cover art.

Textual differences

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction serialization is slightly shorter than the full novel, and does not include the epigram.

The epigram also does not appear in the first British hardcover from Gollancz.