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Title: A escuridão

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Title:
A escuridão?A escuridao
Title Record # 2035836
Author:
André Carneiro?Andre Carneiro

Date: 1963-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: Portuguese
Synopsis: A classic Brazilian SF story with an end-of-the world atmosphere as Earth plunges into some unknown phenomenom that cancel all propagation of light. Protagonist Wladas is a common man who is helped by a group of blind people, the only ones who know how to deal with darkness. Originally printed in Brazil in 1965. Won the "Brazilian Hugo," The Nova Science Fiction Award for Best Short Fiction of 1995 (in a reprint).
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2013
Escuridão?Escuridao
Year Language Title
1972This novelette first appeared in Carneiro´s first collection, Diário da Nave Perdida, 1965. It is considered an international classic of SF. Many international publications. Included in an American selection of the Best of the Year. There is comment about it and the author in Dictionary of Contemporary Brazilian Authors, David William Foster & Roberto Reis, eds., Arizona State University 1981. Translated by Leo L. Barrow.
English Darkness
1973Translated by Lore Straßl
German Dunkelheit
1977Translated by Gömöri Péter
Hungarian
Sötétség?Sotetseg
Soeteetseeg
1978Translated by Gunnar Gällmo First published in JVM #371, 1978.
Swedish Mörker

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Diário da Nave Perdida 1963-00-00
André Carneiro?Andre Carneiro
Edart (Ciencificção #4)     209
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
coll  
As Melhores Novelas Brasileiras de Ficção Científica 2011-00-00 ed. Roberto de Sousa Causo Devir 978-85-7532-476-9   224
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.
anth Vagner Vargas  
Fénix?Fenix
2013-01-00 ed. Marcelina Gama Leandro Álvaro de Sousa Holstein e Marcelina Gama Leandro (Fénix #2)     92
A5?14.8 cm by 21 cm or 5.8" by 8.3" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines
fanzine Ana C. Nunes , Ana C. Silva Checkmark
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