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Take Back Plenty

Colin Greenland

First published June 1990
Type Novel
Series Plenty / Tabitha Jute #1

Colin Greenland, one of the sharpest and most innovative young British critics and novelists, had a bright idea. The old SF was joyous. So why not enjoy it, even now? Why not write Space Opera whose heroine – Tabitha Jute (to avoid a John Clute mistake) – may not change the universe, but who is superabundantly alive? So he did. John Clute, Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia, p. 234.

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1990 British Science Fiction Award Best Novel Winner
1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Science Fiction Novel Winner
1993 Philip K. Dick Award Philip K. Dick Award Nominee/Finalist

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1990 Cover Take Back Plenty Unwin Paperbacks Novel
October 1991 Cover Take Back Plenty Grafton Novel
1992 Cover Variété tussen de sterren Luitingh Novel 8
January 1992 Cover Take Back Plenty AvoNova Novel 3
June 1992 Cover Take Back Plenty AvoNova / SFBC Novel
1993 Begegnungen auf dem Möbiusband Heyne Novel
October 1996 Cover Take Back Plenty Voyager Novel 3
May 2000 Cover Le pays de cocagne Payot Novel
2010 Sternendieb Blanvalet Novel
January 2013 Cover Take Back Plenty Gollancz / Orion Novel 1
January 2013 Cover Take Back Plenty Gollancz / Orion Novel