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Penric's Mission

Lois McMaster Bujold

First published November 2016
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella
Series World of the Five Gods › Penric and Desdemona #3

Notes

This novel is 45,200 words long, and therefore outside the 40,000-word definition of a novella; however, according to current publishing practices it is a novella, and it was eligible for a Hugo nomination because the rules allow the length limit to be exceeded by up to 10%.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2017 Hugo Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist

Publications (9)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 2016 Penric's Mission Spectrum Literary Agency Chapbook
February 2017 Penric's Mission Blackstone Audio Chapbook
February 2017 Penric's Mission Blackstone Audio Chapbook
February 2017 Penric's Mission Blackstone Audio Chapbook
February 2017 Penric's Mission Blackstone Publishing Chapbook
November 2017 Penric's Mission Subterranean Press Chapbook 7
November 2017 Penric's Mission Subterranean Press Chapbook
May 2020 Penric's Travels Baen Books Collection 1
May 2021 Penric's Travels Baen Books Collection |1