Very Bad Deaths
| First published | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Series | Very #1 |
| Publisher | The Easton Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Novel |
| Catalog ID | 106-205 |
| Pages | [9]+271 |
Advertised as "Very Bad Things" by Amazon.ca, which resulted in the incorrect title showing up in various places on the internet. Spider Robinson complained about it on his Web site (http://www.spiderrobinson.com/goodnews.html ).
- "Signed First Edition" on title page
- "This edition is strictly limited to a press run of 900 individually numbered copies" from laid-in Certificate of Authenticity
- The CoA is signed and dated 31 May 2004, thus June is first availability [though unlikely six months before the Baen trade edition]
- Also laid in is "a note about Very Bad Deaths and the author"
- No price or ISBN
- "Frontispiece by Vincent DiFate" on title page; artwork is not signed
| Year | Reviewer | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Damien Broderick | Locus, #526 November 2004 |
| 2005 | John C. Bunnell | Amazing Stories, February 2005 |
| 2008 | Greg Beatty | Strange Horizons, 24 November 2008 |
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2004 | Baen Books | Hardcover | Novel | Stephen Hickman | 271 | |
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2005 | Blackstone Audiobooks | audio CD | Novel | |||
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2005 | Blackstone Audiobooks | audio cassette | Novel | |||
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2005 | Blackstone Audiobooks | audio MP3 CD | Novel | |||
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2005 | Blackstone Audio | digital audio download | Novel | |||
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2006 | Baen Books | Paperback | Novel | Stephen Hickman | 337 | |
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2014 | Baen Books | eBook | Novel |