​This Crowded Earth

​First Published: 1968
Publisher: Belmont Books
​Format: Paperback
​Summary: Harry Collins lives in a world where war is a thing of the past and death from disease is almost unheard of. As a result, Harry lives cramped and squeezed in an overpopulated city of 38 million, in a cramped and squeezed world of six billion. After a failed suicide attempt, Harry is sent to a “treatment center,” where he unwittingly becomes part of the government's horrifying solution to the problem of a world with too many people and too little space for them.

Bloch: “This Crowded Earth—​the other half of Ladies Day, also considers the same problem [overpopulation] in another scenario of a possible future. But my timing was off: during this period science fiction had largely abandoned sociological speculation in favor of the stylistic experimentation labelled “New Wave” writing. But then, as you know, I’ve seldom been a slavish follower of fashion in fiction.”—The Robert Bloch Companion
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Notes:
  • Published bound with another Bloch novel, Ladies' Day.
  • Originally published in the November 1958 issue of Amazing Stories magazine.
Bibliography
Note: documenting editions of This Crowded Earth proved particularly difficult. As the book is public domain, it seems that everyone under the sun published an "edition." If I could not find any, or insufficient, evidence of an edition's existence, it was not included. Some candidates even had ISBN numbers, but if a lookup in the official ISBN database did not produce a result...it was excluded from below. As a result, while the below is fairly comprehensive, any feedback regarding errors in omission or inclusion are welcome.
US: Amazing Science Fiction Stories magazine (novella); Nov 1958
Germany: Pabel ("Ken Platz aud der Erde"; novella) Utopia Zukunfts Roman magazine #516); 1966 
US: Belmont; pb 1968
US: Belmont; pb 1974
UK: Flamingo Books; pb 1974
France: Marabout ("Matriarchie suivi de La fourmilière"); pb 1975
French: NEO ("La fourmilière: suivi de: Matriarchie"); pb 1983
Italy: Mondadori ("Non c'è più posto per noi") Urania magazine #1143); 1990; also contains Ladies' Day, an essay by Giuseppe Lippi, and interview of Bloch by Michael Brennen and Giuseppe Lippi
US: IndyPublish; hc 2008
US: Project Gutenburg; ebook 2008
US: Wildside Press; pb 2008
US: Aegypan; pb 2009
US: Aegypan;  hc 2009
US: CreateSpace; pb 2009
UK: Echo Library; pb 2009
US: LibriVox; audio book; 2009
US: Wilder Publications; pb 2009
??: Wonder Audiobooks; audiobook (omnibus) 2009 (also includes: the stories "The Old College Try", "Black Bargain", "Founding Fathers", and "A Good Imagination)
?? FQ Books; pb 2010
US: Halcyon Press; ebook 2010
US: Bottom of the Hill Publishing; pb 201
??: ebook (Kindle) 2011; nfd
UK: Benediction Classics; hc 2012
??: Rarebooksclub.com; pb 2012
US: Armchair Fiction; anthology pb 2012 (w/Reign of the Telepuppets)
US: CreateSpace; pb 2013
US: Start Publishing; ebook 2013
US: CreateSpace; pb 2014
Australia: Leopold Classic Library; pb 2015
??: HardPress Publishing; pb 2016
??: Audioliterature; audio book 2017
US: CreateSpace; pb 2017
US: CreateSpace; pb 2017
US: CreateSpace; pb 2017
US: CreateSpace; pb 2017
US: CreateSpace; pb 2017
Turkey: CreateSpace; pb 2017
?? Jovian Press; ebook 2018
US: Ozymandias Press; ebook 2018
??: Vintage Sci-Fi Classics; pb 2018
??: Vintage Sci-Fi Classics; ebook 2018
US: Wilder Publications; hc 2018
US: IDB Productions; audio book 2019
India: Lector House; pb 2019
Canada: Reading Essentials; ebook 2019
??: Independently published; pb 2020
Spain: La Biblioteca Del Laberinto ("Esta Tierra Atestada"); pb 2022
Canada: Otbebookpublishing; ebook 2022
India: Double 9 Books; pb 2023
??: Zinc Read; pb 2023
Greece: Alpha Edition; pb 2024
??: HardPress; ebook 2024
US: Start Classics; hc 2024
US: Start Classics; pb 2024