Title: Heads
Title Record # 1808
Author: Greg Bear
Date: 1990-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series: Queen of Angels
Series Number: 2
Language: English
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Author: Greg Bear
Date: 1990-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series: Queen of Angels
Series Number: 2
Language: English
Synopsis: From the front flap St. Martin's Press edition: "Cut the politics. Among the pioneer families colonizing the moon, hard work and loyalty overrode and intrigue and faction-forming that developed. But as the colonists settled, they had more to protect, and Mickey Sandoval is about to learn that politics aren't like butter, through which one cuts with ease. Rather they're more like a neck...
Mickey's sister Rho has bought 410 cryogenically frozen heads. She wants to read their memories, possibly revive them.
Rho's husband, William, is using the lunar facilities in a quest for absolute zero. A brilliant designer and theoretician, he may achieve it soon.
Mickey just wants everything to run smoothly. But the chances for that hit absolute zero when Rho discovers she has the head of K. D. Thierry. Thierry founded the Church of Logology, and the members of the Church now revere him.
If they knew that his last thoughts were, well... Mickey could sooner cut the moon than cut the politics."
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Awards
| Place | Year and Award | Category |
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| 2 | 1991 Locus | Best Novella |
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Nomination
(as Köpfe?Koepfe )
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1996 Kurd Lasswitz Prize | Bester ausländischer SF-Roman |
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Win
(as 凍月?とうげつ )
Tōgetsu Tougetsu |
1997 Seiun | Best Translated Short Story |
Publications
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Interzone, #37 July 1990 | 1990-07-00 | ed. Simon Ounsley, David Pringle | £1.95?£: UK pound |
76 | A4?21 cm by 29.7 cm or 8.3" by 11.7" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines |
mag | David O'Connor |  |
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| Heads | 1990-08-00 | Greg Bear | Legend / Century (Legend Novellas) | 0-7126-3538-6 | £25.00?£: UK pound |
125 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Fred Gambino | |
| Interzone, #38 August 1990 | 1990-08-00 | ed. Simon Ounsley, David Pringle | David Pringle | £1.95?£: UK pound |
76 | A4?21 cm by 29.7 cm or 8.3" by 11.7" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines |
mag | Ian Sanderson | |
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| Heads | 1990-09-00 | Greg Bear | Legend / Century (Legend Novellas) | 0-7126-2174-1 | £4.50?£: UK pound |
125 | 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 | Fred Gambino | |
| Heads | 1990-09-00 | Greg Bear | Legend / Century (Legend Novellas) | 0-7126-3678-1 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
125 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Fred Gambino | |
| Heads | 1991-09-00 | Greg Bear | St. Martin's Press | 0-312-06367-9 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
125 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Fred Gambino | |
| Heads | 1991-11-00 | Greg Bear | Legend | 0-09-971480-9 | £3.99?£: UK pound |
117 | 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 | Peter Jones | |
| Heads | 1992-02-00 | Greg Bear | St. Martin's Press / BOMC | $12.95?$: US dollar |
125 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Fred Gambino | |
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| Heads | 1992-06-00 | Greg Bear | Tor | 0-812-51996-5 | $3.99?$: US dollar |
151 | 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 | Bob Eggleton | |
| Hoofdzaken | 1992-06-00 | Greg Bear | Meulenhoff (M=SF #304) | 90-290-4481-0 | 135 | 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 | Peter A. Jones | |
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| Heads | 1992-07-00 | Greg Bear | St. Martin's Press / QPBC | $7.95?$: US dollar |
128 | 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 | Fred Gambino | ||
| Köpfe | 1995-00-00 | Greg Bear | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #5347) | 3-453-08591-4 | DM 9.90?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
171 | 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 | Fred Gambino | |
S-Fマガジン 1996年2月号, #476?Esu-Efu Magajin 1996-nen 2-gatsu Gō, #476 Esu-Efu Magajin 1996-nen 2-gatsu Gou, #476 S-F Magajin 1996-nen 2-gatsu Gō, #476 S-F Magajin 1996-nen 2-gatsu Gou, #476 |
1996-02-00 |
ed.
Editors of S-Fマガジン?Editors of Esu-Efu Magajin Editors of S-F Magajin |
早川書房?Hayakawa Shobō Hayakawa Shobo はやかわしょぼう ハヤカワショボウ |
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. |
mag | |||||
| Heads | 1999-07-00 | Greg Bear | Orbit | 1-85723-850-8 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
xii+ 147 |
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 | Peter Jones | |
| Zero assoluto | 2001-09-00 | Greg Bear | Editrice Nord (Cosmo Collana di Fantascienza #318) | 88-429-1188-7 | Lit 16,000?Lit: Italian lira |
160 | 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 Collected Stories of Greg Bear | 2002-09-00 | Greg Bear | Tor | 0-765-30160-1 | $29.95?$: US dollar |
653 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Drive Communications | |
| The Collected Stories of Greg Bear | 2002-11-00 | Greg Bear | Tor / SFBC | 54199 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
653 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Drive Communications | |
| The Collected Stories of Greg Bear | 2003-03-00 | Greg Bear | Orb | 0-765-30161-X | $17.95?$: US dollar |
653 | 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. |
coll | |
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| Far Thoughts and Pale Gods | 2016-04-26 | Greg Bear | Open Road Integrated Media | 978-1-5040-2147-0 | $15.99?$: US dollar |
309 | 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. |
coll | Greg Bear | |
| Far Thoughts and Pale Gods | 2016-04-26 | Greg Bear | Open Road Integrated Media | 978-1-5040-2142-5 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll |
Reviews
- Review by Faren Miller (1990) in Locus, #355 August 1990
- Review by Russell Letson (1990) in Locus, #356 September 1990
- Review by Mark R. Kelly (1990) in Locus, #357 October 1990
- Review by Ken Lake (1990) in Vector 158
- Review by John Gregory Betancourt (1991) in Amazing Stories, September 1991
- Review by Keith Brooke (1991) in Paperback Inferno, #93
- Review by Paul Kincaid (1991) in Foundation, #51 Spring 1991
- Review by Cynthia Ward (1991) in Midnight Zoo, v1n6 1991
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1992) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1992
- Review by Charles Platt (1992) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 1992
- Review by Doug Fratz (1993) in Quantum, Spring/Summer 1993