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Phases of Gravity

Dan Simmons

First published 1989
Publisher Bantam Spectra
Format Paperback
Type Novel
ISBN 0553277642
Cover art Tony Randazzo
Pages 278

Notes

According to Simmons' afterword in the third printing of the Bantam edition and the Locus Index, the second (and presumably all subsequent) printing of the Bantam edition, which appeared in March 1991, was revised, though the afterword in the second printing gives no indication of any revisions.
Simmons stresses in the Afterword that the novel is NOT SF SFE says: ...not literally sf, being instead – if one is able to ignore a moment or two of muffled Transcendence – perhaps the first historical novel by an sf author about the space programme, recounting the psychic rejuvenation of a grounded astronaut.

Awards

Year Award Category Status
1990 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Nominee/Finalist

Other Editions

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Phases of Gravity Cover 1990 Headline Trade Paperback Novel 282
Phases of Gravity Cover 1990 Headline Hardcover Novel 282
Phases of Gravity Cover 1990 Headline Hardcover Novel 282
Phases of Gravity Cover 1991 Bantam Spectra Paperback Novel Gary Ruddell 281
Phases of Gravity Cover 1991 Headline Paperback Novel 344
Phases of Gravity Cover 2001 Olmstead Press Trade Paperback Novel 305
Phases of Gravity Cover 2004 e-reads.com Trade Paperback Novel 232
Phases of Gravity Cover 2012 Subterranean Press Hardcover Novel Alan Bean 310
Phases of Gravity Cover 2014 Open Road Integrated Media eBook Novel
Phases of Gravity Cover 2014 Open Road Integrated Media eBook Novel
Phases of Gravity Cover 2014 Open Road Integrated Media Trade Paperback Novel 228