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The Tribes of Bela

Albert E. Cowdrey

First published August 2004
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella
Series Colonel Kohn

Synopsis

An investigator is sent to a mining colony on a planet with apparently no sentient life, where a serial murderer has killed 20 people in a specific and unusual manner.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2005 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist
2006 Nebula Award Novella Nominee/Finalist

Publications (10)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 2004 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2004 Spilogale, Inc. MAGAZINE 41
July 2005 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin / SFBC Anthology 405
July 2005 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 324
July 2005 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 324
July 2005 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology
September 2005 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology
January 2006 The Tribes of Bela Fictionwise Chapbook
March 2012 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology |324
2021 Revelation and Other Tales of Fantascience PS Publishing Collection |12
July 2021 Revelation and Other Tales of Fantascience PS Publishing Collection |12