Wasp was kept in print all through the 60s, 70s, and even the 80s - an amazing accomplishment in a field where novels typically remained in print for a matter of months. It was later serialized in three parts in the UK in New Worlds Science Fiction, starting in March 1958 (above middle, cover by Brian Lewis.) The first UK paperback edition was from Panther in March 1963 (above right, cover by Richard Powers). Wasp was first published in hardcover by Avalon Books in Nov 1957 (above left, cover by Ric Binkley). Like virtually all of Russell’s work, it remained in print for decades. Its first paperback appearance in the US was in February 1959, from Perma Books (above click for bigger images). All alone, he wages a campaign of terrorism to bring down a vast alien empire. His fifth novel, Wasp (1957), is the story of a human saboteur, sent to the home planet of a hostile race during an interstellar war. His first novels, including Sinister Barrier (1939), Dreadful Sanctuary (1948), and Sentinels from Space (1953), made him instantly popular in the United States and his home country, the UK. His prose sparkles, and his stories have genuine warmth and humor. Eric Frank Russell is one of my favorite early SF writers.
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