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Death and Designation Among the Asadi

Michael Bishop

First published January 1973
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

Notes

This novella was revised and included as the Prologue of the novel Transfigurations. While the novel is in the "Glaktik Komm" series, the novella as originally written and published was not. The revision for the novel was published in the collection Blue Kansas Sky (2000). The revision was also translated into German and published in Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 2000.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1974 Hugo Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist
1974 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist
1974 Nebula Award Novella Nominee/Finalist

Publications (10)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 1973 Worlds of If, January-February 1973 Universal-Tandem Publishing Company Ltd. MAGAZINE 4
January 1973 Worlds of If, January-February 1973 UPD Publishing Corporation MAGAZINE 4
May 1974 The 1974 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books Anthology 187
May 1974 The 1974 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Anthology 187
September 1974 The Best from If, Vol. 2 Award Books Anthology 93
September 1974 The 1974 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books / SFBC Anthology 161
October 1975 The World's Best SF Short Stories No. 1 The Elmfield Press Anthology 187
December 1979 Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Three DAW Books Anthology 187
October 2000 Blue Kansas Sky: Four Short Novels of Memory, Magic, Surmise & Estrangement Golden Gryphon Press Collection 192
August 2013 Blue Kansas Sky Gateway / Orion Collection