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Shadow on the Hearth is the first of three science fiction novels by Judith Merril, originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1950. A British hardcover was published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1953, with a paperback following from Compact Read More..

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Description	Shadow on the Hearth is the first of three science fiction novels by Judith Merril, originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1950. A British hardcover was published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1953, with a paperback following from Compact Books in 1966. Italian translations appeared in 1956 and 1992; a German translation was issued in 1982. It was included in Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow, a 2008 NESFA Press omnibus compiling all Merril's novels (the other two written in collaboration with Cyril M. Kornbluth). No American paperback of Shadow on the Hearth has ever been published, although a book club edition appeared. ISFDB publication historyShadow on the Hearth tells the story of "a Westchester woman and her two children after the explosion of a series of atomic bombs on New York"."Books -- Authors", The New York Times, June 10, 1950 Merril described it as "a very political novel, . . . written for political reasons".Merril began writing Shadow as a short story; "When it reached ten thousand words," she remembered, "I began to understand that it wanted to be a novel." Although she stopped working on the piece when it reached twice that length, needing to spend more time with her young daughter, Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury read the incomplete draft and bought the novel. Merril quit her editorial job at Bantam to complete it. When she completed it, Doubleday imposed its own title (avoiding any mention of nuclear war), revising the text to create a happier ending, and wrapping the novel in a nondescript dust jacket. "On the cover was an attractive young mother, obviously in great distress: it could have been a gothic novel", Merril later groused, "or basically anything".Judith Merril & Emily Pohl-Weary, Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, Between The Lines, 2002, pp. 97-99.In 1954, the Motorola TV Theatre aired an adaptation of Shadow, retitled Atomic Attack.
Description	Shadow on the Hearth is the first of three science fiction novels by Judith Merril, originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1950. A British hardcover was published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1953, with a paperback following from Compact Books in 1966. Italian translations appeared in 1956 and 1992; a German translation was issued in 1982. It was included in Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow, a 2008 NESFA Press omnibus compiling all Merril's novels (the other two written in collaboration with Cyril M. Kornbluth). No American paperback of Shadow on the Hearth has ever been published, although a book club edition appeared. ISFDB publication historyShadow on the Hearth tells the story of "a Westchester woman and her two children after the explosion of a series of atomic bombs on New York"."Books -- Authors", The New York Times, June 10, 1950 Merril described it as "a very political novel, . . . written for political reasons".Merril began writing Shadow as a short story; "When it reached ten thousand words," she remembered, "I began to understand that it wanted to be a novel." Although she stopped working on the piece when it reached twice that length, needing to spend more time with her young daughter, Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury read the incomplete draft and bought the novel. Merril quit her editorial job at Bantam to complete it. When she completed it, Doubleday imposed its own title (avoiding any mention of nuclear war), revising the text to create a happier ending, and wrapping the novel in a nondescript dust jacket. "On the cover was an attractive young mother, obviously in great distress: it could have been a gothic novel", Merril later groused, "or basically anything".Judith Merril & Emily Pohl-Weary, Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, Between The Lines, 2002, pp. 97-99.In 1954, the Motorola TV Theatre aired an adaptation of Shadow, retitled Atomic Attack.

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Name	Shadow on the Hearth
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Authors	Judith Merril
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Genre	Science fiction
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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