Title: Brightness Falls from the Air
Title Record # 2312
Author: James Tiptree, Jr.
Date: 1985-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Rift
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Language: English
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Author: James Tiptree, Jr.
Date: 1985-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Rift
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
User Rating: 8.75 (8 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
Current Tags: distant future (1), torture (1), rapid aging (1), poison (1), reproduction (1), telepathy (1), beauty (1), sadism (1), murder (1), memory erasure (1), loss (1), science fiction (1), love (1), interstellar travel (1), interstellar war (1), aliens (1), genocide (1), art (1), drugs (1), alcohol (1), nova (1), time distortion (1), suspended animation (1) Add Tags
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Awards
| Place | Year and Award | Category |
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| 8 | 1986 Locus | Best SF Novel |
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Win
(as 輝くもの天より墜ち?かがやくものてんよりおち )
Kagayakumono Ten Yori Ochi |
2008 Seiun | Best Translated Long 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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| Brightness Falls from the Air | 1985-02-00 | James Tiptree, Jr. | Tor | 0-312-93097-6 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
382 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Joe Bergeron |  |
| Brightness Falls from the Air | 1985-04-00 | James Tiptree, Jr. | Tor / SFBC | 6341 | $4.98?$: US dollar |
[16]+ 270 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Joe Bergeron | |
| Brightness Falls from the Air | 1986-04-00 | James Tiptree, Jr. | Tor | 0-812-55625-9 | $3.50?$: US dollar |
382 | 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 | Joe Bergeron | |
| Brightness Falls from the Air | 1986-11-00 | James Tiptree, Jr. | Sphere | 0-7221-8533-2 | £3.50?£: UK pound |
334 | 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 | Les Edwards | |
| Brightness Falls from the Air | 1993-08-00 | James Tiptree, Jr. | Orb | 0-312-85407-2 | $9.95?$: US dollar |
382 | 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. |
novel | Joe Bergeron | |
| Brightness Falls from the Air | 2001-11-00 | James Tiptree, Jr. | e-reads.com | 0-7592-6253-5 | $8.99?$: 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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| Brightness Falls From the Air | 2014-04-01 | James Tiptree, Jr. | Open Road Integrated Media | 978-1-4976-1140-5 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
| Two Great Novels: Up the Walls of the World / Brightness Falls from the Air | 2016-01-14 | James Tiptree, Jr. | Gollancz | 978-1-4732-0310-5 | £12.99?£: UK pound |
702 | 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 | Nattapon Wongwean | |
| Two Great Novels: Up the Walls of the World / Brightness Falls from the Air | 2016-02-25 | James Tiptree, Jr. | Gollancz | 978-1-4732-0311-2 | £12.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
omni | Nattapon Wongwean | ||
| Brightness Falls from the Air | 2016-06-09 | James Tiptree, Jr. | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-12402-8 | £4.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by Debbie Notkin (1985) in Locus, #288 January 1985
- Review by Baird Searles (1985) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1985
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1985) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1985
- Review by Keith Soltys (1985) in Fantasy Review, December 1985
- Review by Doug Fratz (1985) in Thrust, #23, Winter 1985
- Review by Paul Kincaid (1987) in Vector 137
- Review by L. J. Hurst (1987) in Paperback Inferno, #65
- Review by Lee Montgomerie (1987) in Interzone, #19 Spring 1987
- Review by Graham Sleight (2007) in Locus, #557 June 2007
- Review [German] by Horst Illmer (2018) in phantastisch!, #71
- Review [German] by Christian Endres (2018) in Das Science Fiction Jahr 2018