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Author: Colin Greenland
Year: 1990
Type: NOVEL
Series: Plenty / Tabitha Jute
Series Number: 1
ISFDB Record Number: 1054
Note: Colin Greenland, one of the sharpest and most innovative young British critics and novelists, had a bright idea. The old SF was joyous. So why not enjoy it, even now? Why not write Space Opera whose heroine -Tabitha Jute (to avoid a John Clute mistake)- may not change the universe, but wwho is superabundantly alive? So he did. John Clute, Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia, p. 234.
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Variant Titles:
- Begegnungen auf dem Möbiusband [German] (1993) - Colin Greenland
- Sternendieb [German] (2010) - Colin Greenland
Awards:
- 1990 British Science Fiction Award - SF Novel (Win)
- 1991 Arthur C. Clarke Award - Winner (Win)
- 1993 Philip K. Dick Award - Finalists (Nomination)
Publications:
- Take Back Plenty, (Jun 1990, Colin Greenland, publ. Unwin Paperbacks, 0-04-440265-1, £6.99, 359pp, tp) Cover: Steve Crisp
- Take Back Plenty, (Oct 1991, Colin Greenland, publ. Grafton, 0-586-21339-2, £4.99, 528pp, pb) Cover: Steinar Lund
- Take Back Plenty, (Jan 1992, Colin Greenland, publ. AvoNova, 0-380-76395-8, $4.99, 484pp, pb) Cover: Glenn Orbik - [VERIFIED]
- Take Back Plenty, (Jun 1992, Colin Greenland, publ. AvoNova / SFBC, #19840, $8.98, 484pp, hc) Cover: Walter Velez
- Begegnungen auf dem Möbiusband, (1993, Colin Greenland, publ. Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4992), 3-453-06215-9, DM 19.80, 601pp, pb) - [VERIFIED]
- Take Back Plenty, (1996, Colin Greenland, publ. Voyager, 0-586-21339-2, £5.99, 528pp, pb) Cover: Steinar Lund - [VERIFIED]
- Sternendieb, (2010, Colin Greenland, publ. Blanvalet, 3-442-26668-8, EUR 8.95, 634pp, pb) - [VERIFIED]
- Take Back Plenty, (Jan 2013, Colin Greenland, publ. Gollancz, 978-0-575-11952-9, £8.99, 496pp, tp)
- Take Back Plenty, (date unknown, Colin Greenland, publ. AvoNova, 0-380-76395-8, $4.99, 484pp, pb) Cover: Glenn Orbik - [VERIFIED]
Reviews:
- Review by Faren Miller (1990) in Locus, #354 July 1990
- Review by Paul Brazier (1990) in Interzone, #40 October 1990
- Review by Vernon Leigh (1990) in Paperback Inferno, 87
- Review by Gwyneth Jones (1990) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 1990
- Review by Alan Dorey (1990) in Vector 158
- Review by Ian Sales (1991) in The Lyre, Spring 1991
- Review by Sherry Coldsmith (1991) in Science Fiction Eye, Winter 1991
- Review by Tom Easton (1991) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1991
- Review by Mat Coward (1991) in Paperback Inferno, 93
- Review by Janice M. Eisen (1992) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, Fall 1992
- Review by Norman Spinrad (1994) in Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1994