PJF in his
introduction about the story: «"The Sumerian Oath" certainly came
up from the deeps, like an afterbirth from Moby Dick's mother, while I
was contemplating, not so quietly, a bill from a Beverly Hills doctor.
I have, however, long had a suspicion that the premise of this story is
true.»
DESCRIPTION:
It
is a very funny and absurd story about why there are doctors. Every
medical doctor not only takes the oath of Hippocrates, but also the
Sumerian oath.
Harry Harrison's short introduction: «This story is subtitled
'A
Polytropical Paramyth,' which perhaps means it is a many-valued
almost-myth. Then again it perhaps does not. What it does mean though
is that it certainly is a chunk of very good, tongue-in-cheek fun by
one of our foremost modern myth-makers.»
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FIRST PUBLICATION
in Nova 2
Harry Harrison
New York, NY: Walker and Company
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-8027-5550-X
hardcover (21×14,5cm)
07/1972
x + 209
$ 6.95
Enrico Scull
With a very short introduction by the editor.
Enrico
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inNova 2
Harry Harrison
New York, NY: Walker and Company / BCE
Book Club Edition, SFBC # 5367
no ISBN
hardcover (21,5×14,5cm)
not dated [= 09/1972; date code 39N]
x + 181
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Enrico Scull
With a very short introduction by the editor. Science Fiction Book Club
edition. Date code on page 177.
Enrico
Scull
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in Nova 2
Harry Harrison
New York, NY: Dell Books
SF, # 6668
SBN 440-06668-095
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
04/1974
04/1974 [Canadian printing]
235
$ 0.95
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exactly the same data, the Canadian printing only
states 'Printed in Canada' on the copyright page.
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in The
Book of Philip
José Farmer
New York, NY: DAW Books
UQ1063 / No. 63
SBN 451-UQ1063-095
paperback (18×10,5cm)
07/1973
07/1973 [Canadian printing]
239
$ 0.95
Jack Gaughan
With an introduction,
"Polytropical Paramyths", to the story by Farmer. Both printings have
exactly the same data, the Canadian printing states to be published by
The New American Library of Canada Ltd. and to be printed in Canada.
Jack
Gaughan
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in The
Book of Philip
José Farmer
New York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-05298-2
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
02/1982 (1st)
04/1982 (2nd)
248
$ 2.50
James Warhola
With an introduction
to the story by Farmer.
James
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in Up
the Bright River
Gary K. Wolfe
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press
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ISBN 978-1-59606-329-7
hardcover (23,5×16cm)
03/2011
333
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Bob Eggleton
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Bob
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UK
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in Nova 2
Harry Harrison
London: Sphere Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-7221-4320-6
paperback (18×11cm)
-/1975
220
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Eddie Jones
With a very short introduction by the editor.
Eddie
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in Nova 2
Harry Harrison
London: Robert Hale & Company
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-7091-5703-7
hardcover (18×11cm)
-/1976
220
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in The
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José Farmer
West Yorkshire: The Elmfield Press
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ISBN 0-7057-0067-4
hardcover (21,5×13,5cm
07/1976
239
£ 4.95
Josh Kirby
With an introduction
to the story by Farmer.
Josh
Kirby
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in The
Book of Philip
José Farmer
London: Granada Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-586-05656-4
paperback (18×11cm)
07/1983
318
£ 1.95
Richard Clifton-Dey
With an introduction
to the story by Farmer.
Richard
Clifton-Dey
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German: "Der sumerische Eid"
in Nova 2
Harry Harrison
Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei-Lübbe
Science Fiction, Nr. 21 040
ISBN 3-404-09922-2
paperback (17,5×11,5cm)
-/1973
156
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Greek: "Ο
Σουμερικός
όρκος.
'Ενα πολύτροπο
παραμύθι"
"O Soumerikós órkos. 'Ena polýtropo paramýthi"
in Nova
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Φαντασίας)
in Nova (Anthología Epistimonikís Fantasías)
uncredited [= Harry Harrison]
Athens: Parsec
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ISBN 960-7793-12-9
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341
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Japanese: "シュメールの誓い"
"Shumēru no chikai"
in S-Fマガジン
in S-F Magazine
Kurahashi desk
Tokyo: Hayakawa Publishing
No. 214 (Vol. 17 No. 9)
magazine (21×15cm)
09/1976
232
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Story illustrated by Téruo.
Hatano Teruo
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Russian: "Самаришистская клятва"
"Samarišistskaja kliatva"
in Не только мертвые
in Ne tol'ko mertvyye
Sergei Patlasov
Almaty: RGZHI "Deuir"
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ISBN 5-86228-022-7
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03/1992
312
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Russian: "Шумерская клятва"
"Šumierskaja kliatva"
in Миры Филипа Фармера - T. 15
in Miry Filipa Farmera - T. 15
Riga & Moscow: Polaris
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