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Author: Dan Simmons
Year: 1982
Type: SHORTFICTION
Storylen: shortstory
Language: English
ISFDB Record Number: 40762
Synopsis: The story Simmons presented at the Clarion workshop in 1981, and which later won the Twilight Zone magazine competition. Set in a society able to resurrect the dead, it relates the story of a family dealing with the mother's return after her ceremonial burial. Although living, something essential appears to be missing from the resurrected.
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Awards:
- 1983 Locus Poll Award - Best Short Story (Place: 26)
Publications:
- Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, April 1982, (Apr 1982, ed. T. E. D. Klein, publ. TZ Publications, Inc., $2.00, 104pp, quarto, magazine) Cover: Kevin Larson - [VERIFIED]
- Great Stories from Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, (Oct 1982, ed. T. E. D. Klein, publ. TZ Publications, Inc., $3.95, 148pp, tp, anth) Cover: Terrance Lindall
- Night Cry: Twilight Zone Special #1, (1984, ed. T. E. D. Klein, publ. Montcalm Publishing Corp., $2.95, 196pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Rosie Mackiewicz
- Prayers to Broken Stones, (Jan 1991, Dan Simmons, publ. Dark Harvest, 0-913165-58-1, $21.95, viii+322pp, hc, coll) Cover: Ron Lindahn , Val Lakey Lindahn - [VERIFIED]
- Prayers to Broken Stones, (Jan 1991, Dan Simmons, publ. Dark Harvest, 0-913165-58-1, $55.00, viii+322pp, hc, coll) Cover: Ron Lindahn , Val Lakey Lindahn - [VERIFIED]
- Prayers to Broken Stones, (Feb 1992, Dan Simmons, publ. Headline, 0-7472-7935-7, £8.99, 311pp, tp, coll) Cover: Steve Crisp
- Prayers to Broken Stones, (Feb 1992, Dan Simmons, publ. Headline, 0-7472-0499-3, £15.99, 311pp, hc, coll) Cover: Steve Crisp
- Prayers to Broken Stones, (May 1992, Dan Simmons, publ. Bantam Spectra (Spectra Special Editions), 0-553-29665-5, $5.99, 403pp, pb, coll) Cover: Gary Ruddell - [VERIFIED]
- Midnight Graffiti, (Oct 1992, ed. Jessica Horsting, James Van Hise, publ. Warner Books, 0-446-36307-3, $5.99, xiv+365pp, pb, anth) Cover: Martin Cannon
- Prayers to Broken Stones, (Nov 1992, Dan Simmons, publ. Headline, 0-7472-3816-2, £5.99, 469pp, pb, coll) Cover: Steve Crisp
- Midnight Graffiti, (Feb 1993, ed. James Van Hise, Jessica Horsting, publ. Warner Books / SFBC, #03882, $8.98, xiv+365pp, pb, anth) Cover: Martin Cannon - [VERIFIED]
- Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women, (Jan 1995, ed. Marvin Kaye, publ. GuildAmerica Books / SFBC, 1-56865-116-3, $10.98, xiv+530pp, hc, anth) Cover: Larry Lurin
- Prayers to Broken Stones, (Oct 1997, Dan Simmons, publ. Bantam Spectra, 0-553-76252-4, 403pp, tp, coll) Cover: Gary Ruddell
- Prayers to Broken Stones, (date unknown, Dan Simmons, publ. Bantam Spectra (Spectra Special Editions), 0-553-29665-5, $5.99, 403pp, pb, coll) Cover: Gary Ruddell - [VERIFIED]