First Channel
Jean Lorrah & Jacqueline Lichtenberg
| First published | January 1980 |
|---|---|
| Type | Novel |
| Series | Sime/Gen #1 |
<br>Rimon Farris, a rich Sime farmer's son, has a golden future: all he has to do is marry his childhood sweetheart, Kadi, and he's set for life. But Kadi matures into a Gen, as one-third of the human children do, randomly; and suddenly is considered no more than a food animal, a thing to be killed and harvested. The couple refuse to accept their fate, and flee to a strange hybrid community. There they set in motion the greatest social engineering experiment in human history. If it succeeds, Simes will finally be able to live peacefully in a symbiotic relationship with the Gens. But if it fails, all will be lost.
| Year | Award | Category | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Locus Poll Award | Best SF Novel | Nominee/Finalist |
| 1983 | Prometheus Award | Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel | Nominee/Finalist |
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| January 1980 |
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First Channel | Doubleday | Novel | |
| January 1981 |
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First Channel | Playboy Paperbacks | Novel | |
| March 1986 |
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First Channel | Berkley Books | Novel | |
| October 1988 |
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Die dritte Art | Moewig | Novel | 7 |
| January 2011 |
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First Channel | Borgo Press / Wildside Press | Novel | |
| February 2011 |
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First Channel | Wildside Press | Novel | |
| July 2023 |
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First Channel | Wildside Press | Novel |