Title: Michaelmas

Title: Michaelmas Title Record # 1531
Author: Algis Budrys
Date: 1977-07-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Laurent Michaelmas
Webpages: web.archive.org, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: The world's leading broadcast journalist, who uses the information provided by his highly advanced artificially intelligent personal assistant which monitors all the public data in the world to secretly control events to guide humanity, becomes involved in a story wherein an American astronaut, presumed killed in a botched landing, suddenly reappears completely healed of any injuries, apparently due to a stay in a Swiss medical clinic.

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Translated Serializations

Year	Title
1978	Michaelmas [as by Algis J. Budrys]

Year	Language	Title
1978	Italian	Progetto Terra
1979^ⓘTranslated by Jean Bonnefoy	French	Michaelmas
1980^ⓘTranslated by Walter Brumm	German	Michaelmas

Year	Title
1976	Michaelmas (Part 1 of 2)
1976	Michaelmas (Part 2 of 2)

Year	Language	Title
1977^ⓘTranslated by Françoise Maillet	French	Michaelmas (Part 1 of 2)
1977^ⓘTranslated by Françoise Maillet	French	Michaelmas (Part 2 of 2)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
13	1977 Locus	Best SF Novel
5	1978 Locus	Best SF Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1976	1976-08-00	ed. Edward L. Ferman	Mercury Press, Inc.		$1.00^?$: US dollar	164	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Greg Bear
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1976	1976-09-00	ed. Edward L. Ferman	Mercury Press, Inc.		$1.00^?$: US dollar	164	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	David Hardy
Fiction, #277	1977-02-00	ed. Editors of Fiction	OPTA		F8.50^?F: French frank	196	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Laurent Bounoure
Fiction, #278	1977-03-00	ed. Editors of Fiction	OPTA		F8.50^?F: French frank	196	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Sayag
Michaelmas	1977-07-00	Algis Budrys	Berkley/Putnam	0-399-11653-2	$7.95^?$: US dollar	253	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Don Brautigam
Michaelmas	1977-10-27	Algis Budrys	Gollancz (Gollancz SF Series (4))	0-575-02375-9	£3.95^?£: UK pound	253	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Michaelmas	1978-04-00	Algis Budrys	Readers Union / The Science Fiction Book Club (UK)	1136		253	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Michaelmas	1978-05-00	Algis Budrys	Berkley/Putnam / SFBC	2541	$2.98^?$: US dollar	183	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Don Brautigam
Michaelmas	1978-07-00	Algis J. Budrys	Berkley Books	0-425-03812-2	$1.95^?$: US dollar	247	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	Don Brautigam
Progetto Terra	1978-10-00	Algis Budrys	Editrice Nord (Cosmo Collana di Fantascienza #80)		Lit 2,500^?Lit: Italian lira	vi+ 152	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Eddie Jones
Michaelmas	1979-00-00	Algis Budrys	Fontana	0-00-615407-7	£0.95^?£: UK pound	221	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	Alun Hood
Michaelmas	1979-01-09	Algis Budrys	Denoël^?Denoel ( Présence du Futur^?Presence du Futur #270)			280	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	Stéphane Dumont^?Stephane Dumont
Michaelmas	1980-01-00	Algis Budrys	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3683)	3-453-30603-1	DM 5.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	253	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	Karel Thole
Michaelmas	1986-12-00	Algis Budrys	Questar / Popular Library	0-445-20316-1	$3.50^?$: US dollar	212	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	James Gurney
Michaelmas	2011-09-00	Algis Budrys	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-10840-0	£4.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Iron Thorn / Michaelmas / Hard Landing	2014-01-00	Algis Budrys	Gollancz (SF Gateway Omnibus)	978-0-575-10833-2	£18.99^?£: UK pound	xii+ 379+ [4]	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.	omni	Guy Worley
The Iron Thorn / Michaelmas / Hard Landing	2014-01-00	Algis Budrys	Gateway / Orion (SF Gateway Omnibus)	978-1-4732-0193-4	£9.49^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni
Michaelmas	2016-02-00	Algis Budrys	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-4976-5298-9	$7.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Charles Platt (1977) in Science Fiction Review, August 1977
Review by Lester del Rey (1977) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1977
Review by Charles N. Brown (1977) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Winter 1977
Review by Algis Budrys (1977) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1977
Review by Richard A. Lupoff [as by Richard Lupoff] (1977) in Algol, #30, Winter 1977-78
Review by Spider Robinson (1978) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, February 1978
Review by Harlan Ellison (1978) in Delap's F & SF Review, February 1978
Review by Brian Stableford [as by Brian M. Stableford] (1978) in Foundation, #14 September 1978
Review [French] by Roger Bozzetto (1979) in Fiction, #300
Review by Joseph Nicholas (1979) in Paperback Parlour, August 1979
Review by David Pringle (1985) in Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels , reprinted in:
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1985)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1986)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1987)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1997)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (2014)
Review by Graham Sleight (2008) in Locus, #569 June 2008