Title: Nearly People
Title Record # 102009
Author: Conrad Williams
Date: 2001-03-31
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
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Author: Conrad Williams
Date: 2001-03-31
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
Synopsis: From the front flap of the PS first edition HB: "It's dog eat dog out here. And man eat dog and man eat man ...
Howling Mile. A city of the future. Barred from surrounding areas in the aftermath of a deadly toxic spill, its citizens are a crushed, hateful breed, slowly exploding in a vicious cycle of violence and cannibalism while their jailers, the Bordertypes, keep watch from sniper steeples and patrols of fire-breathing helicopters, desperate to prevent the contagion from infecting the rest of the country.
Yet within this black area, hope has come, at least for one woman.
Carrier has fallen in love with the Dancer, a man she catches glimpses of beyond her reinforced windows and deep within her dreams. By day, she tends to her best friend Jake, who is dying, infected by the slow poison that is subsuming the city and its inhabitants. By night, she corresponds with Enderby, a friend who provides her with a reason to live, by sending her missives from the real world.
Meanwhile, The Dancer introduces her to a different way of life in Howling Mile. She learns that there is beauty and magic beyond the bloodshed and resentment; that there exists a possible way forward.
But she discovers there is a price to be paid for such epiphanies. Carrier finds herself running the risk of exposing herself and Jake to the Bordertypes, who don't want anything leaking out from Howling Mile. Anything alive, that is.
And all the while it seems that the greatest secrets of the city are to be found deep within herself ..."
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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Nomination | 2001 IHG | Best Long Form |
Nomination | 2002 BFA | Best Short Fiction |
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Nearly People | 2001-05-00 | Conrad Williams | PS Publishing | 1-902880-18-8 | £8.00?£: UK pound |
78 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
chap | Wieslaw Walkuski | |
Nearly People | 2001-05-00 | Conrad Williams | PS Publishing | 1-902880-19-6 | £25.00?£: UK pound |
78 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Wieslaw Walkuski | |
Use Once, Then Destroy | 2004-06-00 | Conrad Williams | Night Shade Books | 1-892389-67-3 | $27.00?$: US dollar |
240 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Mike Bohatch | |
Use Once, Then Destroy | 2015-05-19 | Conrad Williams | Night Shade Books | 978-1-59780-822-4 | $15.99?$: US dollar |
245 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Mike Bohatch |
Reviews
- Review by Faren Miller (2001) in Locus, #488 September 2001
- Review by Don D'Ammassa (2001) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #217 October 2001
- Review by Matt Colborn (2002) in Interzone, #175 January 2002
- Review by Paul Di Filippo (2002) in Asimov's Science Fiction, May 2002