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Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Year: 1990
Type: NOVEL
ISFDB Record Number: 15356
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Awards:
- 1991 Asimov's Readers' Poll - Asimov's Reader's Poll -- Novella (Place: 7)
- 1991 Hugo Award - Best Novella (Nomination)
- 1991 Locus Poll Award - Best Novella (Place: 1)
- 1991 SF Chronicle Award - Novella (Nomination)
Publications:
- A Short, Sharp Shock, (May 1990, Kim Stanley Robinson, publ. Mark V. Ziesing, 0-929480-18-X, $18.00, 147pp, hc) Cover: Arnie Fenner - [VERIFIED]
- A Short, Sharp Shock / The Dragon Masters, (Dec 1990, ed. Kim Stanley Robinson, Jack Vance, publ. Tor (Tor Double #28), 0-812-50895-5, $3.50, 216pp, pb, anth) Cover: Brad Teare - [VERIFIED]
- A Short, Sharp Shock, (Mar 1996, Kim Stanley Robinson, publ. Bantam Spectra, 0-553-57461-2, $5.99, 180pp, pb) Cover: Arnie Fenner - [VERIFIED]
- A Short, Sharp Shock, (Jun 2000, Kim Stanley Robinson, publ. Voyager / HarperCollins, 0-00-651078-7, £5.99, 180pp, pb) Cover: Bob Warner
Reviews:
- Review by uncredited (1990) in Quantum, Fall 1990/Winter 1991
- Review by Mark R. Kelly (1990) in Locus, #355 August 1990
- Review by Faren Miller (1990) in Locus, #355 August 1990
- Review by Tom Easton (1990) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1990
- Review by Paul Kincaid (1990) in Vector 158
- Review by Candas Jane Dorsey (1991) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 1991, (1991)
- Review by Tanya Brown (2000) in Vector 214
- Review by Peter Young (2003) in Zoo Nation, #2: Kitchen Appliances in Zero-G, (2002)