Descendant
| First published | August 1987 |
|---|---|
| Type | Short Fiction |
| Length | Novelette |
| Series | Culture |
A shot-down spaceman has to walk around a large part of a planet in an intelligent powered space suit.
No direct quote of "the Culture", but features a drone, knife missiles, AI levels measured in decimal numbers and Orbitals.
The copyright page of State of the Art (Orbit trade paperback edition, ISBN 1-85723-030-2) does not mention this story. It states that a different story, "Odd Attachment," was first published in Tales from the Forbidden Planet.
This appears to be mistaken -- the story "Descendant" first appeared in Tales from the Forbidden Planet, and "Odd Attachment" first appeared in "Arrows of Eros."
The copyright page of State of the Art (Orbit trade paperback edition, ISBN 1-85723-030-2) does not mention this story. It states that a different story, "Odd Attachment," was first published in Tales from the Forbidden Planet.
This appears to be mistaken -- the story "Descendant" first appeared in Tales from the Forbidden Planet, and "Odd Attachment" first appeared in "Arrows of Eros."
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1987 |
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Tales from the Forbidden Planet | Titan Books | Anthology | 133 |
| August 1987 |
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Tales from the Forbidden Planet | Titan Books | Anthology | 133 |
| October 1987 |
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Tales from the Forbidden Planet | Titan Books | Anthology | 133 |
| 1991 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 33 |
| March 1991 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 33 |
| 1992 |
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Ein Geschenk der Kultur | Heyne | Collection | 59 |
| 1993 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 42 |
| 1994 | The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 40 | |
| 1996 | The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 40 | |
| 1996 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 40 |
| 1997 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 40 |
| 1997 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 40 |
| 1998 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 42 |
| 1999 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 40 |
| 1999 |
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Monolith 002 | Zagrebačka naklada | Anthology | |
| 2001 | The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | ||
| November 2004 |
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The State of the Art | Night Shade Books | Collection | 29 |
| November 2004 |
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The State of the Art | Night Shade Books | Collection | 29 |
| 2005 | The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | ||
| 2006 | The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 40 | |
| April 2007 |
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The State of the Art | Night Shade Books | Collection | 29 |
| March 2010 |
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L'essence de l'art | Le Bélial' | Collection | 72 |
| March 2010 |
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The State of the Art | Hachette Digital | Collection | |39 |
| 2011 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 39 |
| May 2011 |
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Última generación | La Factoría de Ideas | Collection | 48 |
| 2013 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 39 |
| 2013 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | 39 |
| February 2013 |
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L'essence de l'art | Le Livre de Poche | Collection | 77 |
| November 2013 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit | Collection | |39 |
| April 2024 |
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The State of the Art | Hachette Audio | Collection | |39 |
| April 2024 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit (US) | Collection | 39 |
| April 2024 |
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The State of the Art | Orbit (US) | Collection | |4 |