I noticed that Wikipedia has some links to bibliographical and other catalogues at the bottom of the author’s page. After exploring them...
Discogs is a database of audio recordings, so if someone is also interested in audiobooks, they could find them here. (And, hypothetically, there could be a translation in both paper and audio version, so finding the audiobook here could point towards a paper book.) Levshin actually has some audio here, but not that one book.
Лаборатория Фантастики is probably trying to be the thing that I imagined, for science fiction and fantasy, but the data is very incomplete. It lists various editions of the book I am looking for (that is also interesting for me), but none of the translations.
Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek only contains German translations, but it found one!
Virtual International Authority File seems like it aggregates information from various national libraries, so it found the Russian and German versions of the book.
...well, I found one more translation, that’s a success! But it’s disappointing that the sources that know about the Vietnamese translation don’t know about the German one, and vice versa, and no one outside Slovakia knows about the Slovak one. Basically, out of 3 translations (that I am aware of) any web source knows at most 1.
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I thought that I had a clever idea, and I put the names of both the German and Vietnamese translations in Google. Any page that contains them both is very likely the one I am looking for… oops, zero results found.
I noticed that Wikipedia has some links to bibliographical and other catalogues at the bottom of the author’s page. After exploring them...
Discogs is a database of audio recordings, so if someone is also interested in audiobooks, they could find them here. (And, hypothetically, there could be a translation in both paper and audio version, so finding the audiobook here could point towards a paper book.) Levshin actually has some audio here, but not that one book.
Лаборатория Фантастики is probably trying to be the thing that I imagined, for science fiction and fantasy, but the data is very incomplete. It lists various editions of the book I am looking for (that is also interesting for me), but none of the translations.
Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek only contains German translations, but it found one!
Virtual International Authority File seems like it aggregates information from various national libraries, so it found the Russian and German versions of the book.
WorldCat only found the Russian book.
...well, I found one more translation, that’s a success! But it’s disappointing that the sources that know about the Vietnamese translation don’t know about the German one, and vice versa, and no one outside Slovakia knows about the Slovak one. Basically, out of 3 translations (that I am aware of) any web source knows at most 1.
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I thought that I had a clever idea, and I put the names of both the German and Vietnamese translations in Google. Any page that contains them both is very likely the one I am looking for… oops, zero results found.