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Reasons to Be Cheerful

Greg Egan

First published April 1997
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Notes

First published in Interzone #118, April 1997. [Source]

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1997 Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction SF Short Story Nominee/Finalist
1998 Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award Best Short Fiction Nominee/Finalist
1998 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (23)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
April 1997 Interzone, April 1997 David Pringle MAGAZINE 8
April 1998 The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume Two Voyager / HarperCollins (Australia) Anthology 1
June 1998 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 69
June 1998 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology 69
August 1998 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press / SFBC Anthology 69
September 1998 Luminous Millennium / Orion Collection 191
September 1998 Luminous Millennium / Orion Collection 191
October 1998 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 11th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology 74|6
August 1999 Luminous Millennium Collection 191
September 2001 Reasons to Be Cheerful Fictionwise.com Chapbook
November 2002 The Hard SF Renaissance Tor Anthology 545
December 2002 The Hard SF Renaissance Tor / SFBC Anthology 545
2003 Luminous Gollancz Collection 191
October 2003 The Hard SF Renaissance Orb Anthology 545
February 2008 Luminous Gollancz Collection 213
December 2010 Luminous Gollancz Collection
April 2011 The Hard SF Renaissance Orb Anthology 545
2013 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 69
December 2019 The Best of Greg Egan Subterranean Press Collection 217
May 2020 Luminous Greg Egan Collection
July 2020 The Best of Greg Egan Night Shade Books Collection |217
March 2021 The Best of Greg Egan Gollancz / Orion Collection 209
March 2021 The Best of Greg Egan Gateway / Orion Collection |217