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Blood Music

Greg Bear

First published June 1983
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1984 Hugo Award Best Novelette Winner
1984 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist
1984 Nebula Award Novelette Winner
1984 SF Chronicle Award Novelette Nominee/Finalist
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (63)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1983 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1983 Davis Publications MAGAZINE 12
April 1984 The Year's Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection Bluejay Books Anthology 348
April 1984 The Year's Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection Bluejay Books Anthology 348
June 1984 The 1984 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books Anthology 10
June 1984 The 1984 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Anthology 10
August 1984 The 1984 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books / SFBC Anthology 1
December 1984 The Nebula Awards #19 Arbor House Anthology 146
August 1989 Tangents Warner Books Collection 9
October 1989 Tangents Gollancz Collection 11
October 1989 Tangents Warner Books / SFBC Collection 11
December 1989 The New Hugo Winners: Award-Winning Science Fiction Stories Wynwood Press Anthology 174
April 1990 Tangents VGSF / Gollancz Collection 11
May 1990 The New Hugo Winners Wynwood / SFBC Anthology 174
August 1990 Tangents Questar / Popular Library Collection 7
October 1990 Tangents VGSF / Gollancz Collection 11
September 1991 The New Hugo Winners Baen Books Anthology 174
October 1991 Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy Dove Audio Anthology
December 1991 Tangents VGSF / Gollancz Collection 11
October 1992 Tangents VGSF / Gollancz Collection 11
1995 Discoveries Gollancz Anthology 35
March 1995 Tangents VGSF Collection 11
August 1995 Nanodreams Baen Books Anthology 17
November 1996 Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology Tor Anthology 31
November 1996 Visions of Wonder: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology Tor Anthology 31
May 1997 Tangents Vista Collection 11
June 1997 Cyber-Killers Millennium / Orion Anthology 15
June 1997 Cyber-Killers Millennium / Orion Anthology 15
May 1998 Cyber-Killers Orion Anthology 19
October 1998 Future on Ice Tor Anthology 89
December 1998 Nanotech Ace Books Anthology 1
March 1999 Nanotech Science Fiction Book Club Anthology 1
December 1999 Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy Phoenix Audio Anthology
January 2000 Future on Ice Tor Anthology 89
June 2000 Tangents Millennium Collection 9
July 2000 The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prentice-Hall Anthology 1019
September 2002 The Collected Stories of Greg Bear Tor Collection 15
September 2002 The Ultimate Cyberpunk ibooks Anthology 153
November 2002 The Collected Stories of Greg Bear Tor / SFBC Collection 15
2003 The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prentice-Hall Anthology 1019
March 2003 The Collected Stories of Greg Bear Orb Collection 15
May 2004 The Ultimate Cyberpunk ibooks Anthology 153
February 2005 The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 1
February 2005 The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 1
February 2005 The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction St. Martin's Griffin Anthology
April 2006 Novel Ideas—Science Fiction DAW Books Anthology 197
November 2007 A Science Fiction Omnibus Penguin Books Anthology 159
November 2007 A Science Fiction Omnibus Penguin Books Anthology |11
March 2008 The Mammoth Book of The Best of The Best New SF Robinson Anthology 1
March 2008 The Mammoth Book of The Best of The Best New SF Robinson Anthology |1
December 2008 Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press Anthology 1175
June 2011 Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |250
December 2011 The Year's Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection Bluejay Books Anthology
December 2011 Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |250
October 2012 Tangents Audible Studios Collection
March 2013 Nanotech Baen Books Anthology
2015 Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press Anthology 743
October 2015 Visions of the Future Lifeboat Foundation Anthology 543
December 2015 Visions of the Future Lifeboat Foundation Anthology |32
April 2016 Just Over the Horizon Open Road Integrated Media Collection
July 2016 The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology 740
July 2016 The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology |71
July 2016 The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Crime/Black Lizard / SFBC Anthology 740
July 2016 Tangents Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio Collection