Title: The Golden Globe

Title: The Golden Globe Title Record # 12598
Author: John Varley
Date: 1998-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Metal Trilogy
Series Number: 2
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: Consummate actor and a skilled con man Kenneth "Sparky" Valentine, races across the solar system to be on Luna in time to play King Lear, dodging an assassin from the Charonese Mafia.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
2003^ⓘTranslated by Patrick Marcel	French	Le système Valentine^?Le systeme Valentine

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win	1999 Prometheus	Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel
5	1999 Locus	Best SF Novel
Nomination	1999 Endeavour	Distinguished Novel or Collection
Nomination ^ⓘNomination is for the translator Patrick Marcel. (as Le système Valentine^?Le systeme Valentine )	2005 Imaginaire	Traduction

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Golden Globe	1998-10-00	John Varley	Ace Books	0-441-00558-6	$22.95^?$: US dollar	425	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Danilo Ducak
The Golden Globe	1999-01-00	John Varley	Ace Books / SFBC	01396	$11.50^?$: US dollar	425	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Danilo Ducak
The Golden Globe	1999-09-00	John Varley	Ace Books	0-441-00643-4	$6.99^?$: US dollar	517	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Danilo Ducak
The Golden Globe	2004-08-00	John Varley	Ace Books	0-441-00643-4	$7.99^?$: US dollar	517	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Danilo Ducak
The Golden Globe	date unknown	John Varley	Ace Books	0-441-00643-4	$6.99^?$: US dollar	517	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Danilo Ducak
The Golden Globe	date unknown	John Varley	Ace Books	978-1-101-65612-9	$9.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Danilo Ducak

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Reviews

Review by Don D'Ammassa (1998) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #199 Oct-November 1998
Review by John Clute (1998) in Science Fiction Weekly, 19 Oct 1998 , reprinted in:
Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003 (2003)
Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003 (2016)
Review by Paul Di Filippo (1998) in Science Fiction Age, November 1998
Review by Thomas Myer (1998) in SF Site, December 1998, (1998)
Review by Paul J. McAuley (1998) in SF Site, Mid-October 1998, (1998)
Review by Russell Letson (1999) in Locus, #456 January 1999
Review by Ken Scholes (1999) in Talebones #14, Winter 1999
Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1999) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 1999
Review by Wayne Daniels (2000) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, March 2000
Review by Lenny Bailes (2002) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 2002
Review [French] by
Jean-François Thomas^?Jean-Francois Thomas
(2003) in Galaxies, #31
Review [French] by Bruno Para (2004) in Bifrost, #33
Review by Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo (2012) in Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 , reprinted in:
Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 (2012)