Title: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Title: The Slow Regard of Silent Things Title Record # 1765892
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Date: 2014-10-28
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series: The Kingkiller Chronicle
Language: English

Note: "Over 30,000 words" according to the author's blog.

Synopsis: A woman of a dimension underlying ours goes about her solitary days finding objects and putting them in their proper locations in all the places to which she has access, while waiting for a visitor.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
2014^ⓘTranslated by Gemma Rovira Ortega. Although this story is a novella in the original language, and the translation has been assigned the same length in the record here, the translated work is actually longer than 40,000 words and was nominated for the Premio Ignotus in the Novel category.	Spanish	La música del silencio
2014^ⓘTranslated by Colette Carrière	French	La musique du silence
2015^ⓘTranslated by Jochen Schwarzer	German	Die Musik der Stille
2015^ⓘTranslated by Sandra van de Ven	Dutch	De muziek van de stilte

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
4	2014 Goodreads	Fantasy
16	2015 Locus	Best Novella
4 (as La música del silencio)	2015 Premio Ignotus	Mejor novela extranjera - Best Foreign Novel
Nominations Below Cutoff	2015 Hugo	Best Novella

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Slow Regard of Silent Things	2014-10-28	Patrick Rothfuss	DAW Books	978-0-7564-1043-8	$18.95^?$: US dollar	x+ 159	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap	Julia Reschke
The Slow Regard of Silent Things	2014-10-28	Patrick Rothfuss	Gollancz	978-1-4732-0932-9	£12.99^?£: UK pound	ii+ 159	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap	Laura Brett
The Slow Regard of Silent Things	2014-10-28	Patrick Rothfuss	DAW Books	978-0-7564-1043-8		176	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap	Julia Reschke
The Slow Regard of Silent Things	2014-10-28	Patrick Rothfuss	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #1670)	978-0-698-18494-7	$10.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	chap	Julia Reschke
The Slow Regard of Silent Things	2014-10-28	Patrick Rothfuss	Gollancz	978-1-4732-0934-3	£6.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	chap	Laura Brett
The Slow Regard of Silent Things	2015-10-08	Patrick Rothfuss	Gollancz	978-1-4732-0953-4	£7.99^?£: UK pound	176	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.	chap	Laura Brett
The Slow Regard of Silent Things	2015-11-17	Patrick Rothfuss	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #1670)	978-0-7564-1132-9	$10.99^?$: US dollar	159	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	Julia Reschke
The Slow Regard of Silent Things	2016-11-10	Patrick Rothfuss	Gollancz	978-1-4732-0933-6	£7.99^?£: UK pound	176	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.	chap	Laura Brett
The Slow Regard of Silent Things	date unknown	Patrick Rothfuss	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #1670)	978-0-7564-1132-9	$10.99^?$: US dollar	[iii]+ 159	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
The Slow Regard of Silent Things	date unknown	Patrick Rothfuss	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #1670)	978-0-7564-1132-9	$10.99^?$: US dollar	[iii]+ 159	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

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Reviews

Review [Dutch] by Jan van 't Ent (2015) in Holland-SF 2015, #1
Review by Michelle West (2015) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March-April 2015
Review by Tim Pratt (2015) in Locus, #651 April 2015
Review [Dutch] by Jan van 't Ent (2015) in Holland-SF 2015, #2
Review by Colin Steele (2016) in SF Commentary, #91 , reprinted in:
SF Commentary, #91 (2016)