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Incarnation Day

Walter Jon Williams

First published August 2006
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series College of Mystery

Synopsis

In a future where "children" are created as virtual personalities and raised in a simulation until their parents have them "incarnated" into physical bodies or deleted, one (virtual) girl decides to fight for the rights of all virtual children.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2007 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (16)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 2006 Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space Science Fiction Book Club Anthology 239
2007 Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition Prime Books Anthology 126
January 2007 Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition Wildside Press Anthology
March 2007 The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One Night Shade Books Anthology 117
March 2007 The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One Night Shade Books Anthology
April 2007 Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition Wildside Press Anthology 126
June 2007 Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition Cosmos Books / Dorchester Publishing Anthology 159
July 2007 The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 266
July 2007 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 266
August 2007 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin / SFBC Anthology 311
September 2007 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 20th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology 287
November 2008 Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space Firebird / Penguin Anthology 239
April 2009 The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One Night Shade Books Anthology 117
April 2010 The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories Night Shade Books Collection 203
August 2011 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 20th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology |287
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