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Michaelmas

Algis Budrys

First published August 1976
Type Novel
Series Laurent Michaelmas

The world's leading broadcast journalist, who uses the information provided by his highly advanced artificially intelligent personal assistant which monitors all the public data in the world to secretly control events to guide humanity, becomes involved in a story wherein an American astronaut, presumed killed in a botched landing, suddenly reappears completely healed of any injuries, apparently due to a stay in a Swiss medical clinic.

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1977 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Nominee/Finalist
1978 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Nominee/Finalist

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1976 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1976 Mercury Press, Inc. MAGAZINE 5
September 1976 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1976 Mercury Press, Inc. MAGAZINE 40
February 1977 Cover Fiction, #277 OPTA MAGAZINE 3
March 1977 Cover Fiction, #278 OPTA MAGAZINE 3
July 1977 Cover Michaelmas Berkley/Putnam Novel 11
October 1977 Cover Michaelmas Gollancz Novel
April 1978 Cover Michaelmas Readers Union / The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Novel 11
May 1978 Cover Michaelmas Berkley/Putnam / SFBC Novel
July 1978 Cover Michaelmas Berkley Books Novel 1
October 1978 Cover Progetto Terra Editrice Nord Novel
1979 Cover Michaelmas Fontana Novel 7
January 1979 Cover Michaelmas Denoël Novel
January 1980 Cover Michaelmas Heyne Novel
December 1986 Cover Michaelmas Questar / Popular Library Novel 1
September 2011 Cover Michaelmas Gateway / Orion Novel
January 2014 Cover The Iron Thorn / Michaelmas / Hard Landing Gollancz / Orion Omnibus 121
January 2014 Cover The Iron Thorn / Michaelmas / Hard Landing Gateway / Orion Omnibus
February 2016 Cover Michaelmas Open Road Integrated Media Novel
November 2018 Cover Michaelmas Blackstone Audio Novel