Title: Dear Abbey
Title Record # 308411
Author: Terry Bisson
Date: 2003-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
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Author: Terry Bisson
Date: 2003-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
Synopsis: From the front flap of the PS Publishing hardback edition: "Would you sacrifice humanity to save the planet Earth?
Cole is an obscure professor at an undistinguished community college--a man without a future. Lee is a Chinese political refugee with a Texas accent --a man without a past.
They share a tiny office, a taste for Edward Abbey (and Jack Daniels), and an awesome destiny. For the most fateful decision in human history is theirs to make.
One fateful Friday night, Cole and Lee join hands (literally) and embark on a journey to retrieve a formula that will change, or end, human history. A journey through Time.
Along the way, they are witness to all the horror and all the glory of our tomorrows--from the cannibal seals of the next Ice Age to the final campfire under a dying sun; from the seductions of 30th century Paris to the pleasures of a dinner party a hundred million years in the future. They even find time to meet man's best friend, as well as his most indifferent enemy.
It's a billion-year leap -- the perfect way to spend a long weekend that stretches all the way from Friday night to the End of Time. And your presence is requested as well."
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
---|---|---|
Nomination | 2003 BSFA | Best Short Fiction |
7 | 2004 Locus | Best Novella |
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Dear Abbey | 2003-08-00 | Terry Bisson | PS Publishing | 1-902880-75-7 | £10.00?£: UK pound |
108 | 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 | Edward Miller | |
Dear Abbey | 2003-08-00 | Terry Bisson | PS Publishing | 1-902880-76-5 | £25.00?£: UK pound |
108 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Edward Miller | |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection | 2004-07-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | St. Martin's Griffin | 0-312-32479-0 | $19.95?$: US dollar |
xxxviii+ 665 |
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 | Jean-Pierre Normand | |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection | 2004-07-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | St. Martin's Griffin / SFBC | 1164455 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
776 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Jean-Pierre Normand | |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection | 2004-07-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | St. Martin's Griffin | 0-312-32478-2 | $35.00?$: US dollar |
xxxviii+ 665 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Jean-Pierre Normand | |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 17th Annual Collection | 2004-11-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | Robinson | 1-84119-924-9 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
xlv+ 718 |
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 | joeroberts.co.uk | |
Greetings | 2005-07-01 | Terry Bisson | Tachyon Publications | 1-892391-24-4 | $24.95?$: US dollar |
384 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | John Picacio | |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 17th Annual Collection | 2011-09-09 | ed. Gardner Dozois | Robinson | 978-1-78033-265-9 | £9.98?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | |||
Dear Abbey | 2013-12-03 | Terry Bisson | 978-1-4756-0344-6 | $2.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
chap | Lisa Roth |
Reviews
- Review by Jonathan Strahan (2003) in Locus, #512 September 2003
- Review by Dave M. Roberts (2004) in Vector 234
- Review by John Clute (2006) in Interzone, #202 February 2006