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The Green Gene

Peter Dickinson

First published April 1973
Type Novel

Green is the color of my true love's skin. The Irish were having green-skinned babies, until they all were "wearing of the green" permanently! The Scots kept right up with them and turned green too! And the Welsh, being fellow Celtics, also became grass-colored! In all the world only one meek little Indian genius had tracked down the wild gene that was doing it. So they called him to the British Isles - and thereby upset the whole delicately balanced green-apple cart! (from the back cover of the DAW Books first printing)

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1974 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Best Science Fiction Novel Runner-up

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
April 1973 Cover The Green Gene Hodder & Stoughton Novel
May 1973 Cover The Green Gene Pantheon Books Novel
October 1974 Cover The Green Gene Panther Novel 7
December 1975 Cover The Green Gene DAW Books Novel 7
December 1975 Cover The Green Gene DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Novel 7
1978 Cover Das grüne Gen Heyne Novel
April 2015 Cover The Green Gene: A Crime Novel Open Road Integrated Media Novel
April 2015 Cover The Green Gene: A Crime Novel Open Road Integrated Media Novel