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Title: The River Styx Runs Upstream Title Record # 40762
Author: Dan Simmons
Date: 1982-04-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1991Translated by Jacques Chambon
French
Le Styx coule à l'envers?Le Styx coule a l'envers
1995 German Der Styx fließt bergauf
1997Translated by Jean-Daniel Brèque
French
Le Styx coule à l'envers?Le Styx coule a l'envers

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
26 1983 Locus Best Short Story

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, April 1982 1982-04-00 ed. T. E. D. Klein TZ Publications, Inc.  
$2.00?$: US dollar
104
quarto?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
mag Kevin Larson Checkmark
Great Stories from Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine 1982-10-00 ed. T. E. D. Klein TZ Publications, Inc.  
$3.95?$: US dollar
148
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 Terrance Lindall  
Night Cry: TZ Special #1 1984-00-00 ed. T. E. D. Klein TZ Publications, Inc.  
$2.95?$: US dollar
196
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Rosie Mackiewicz  
Prayers to Broken Stones 1991-01-00 Dan Simmons Dark Harvest 0-913165-58-1
$21.95?$: US dollar
viii+
322+
[7]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Ron Lindahn , Val Lakey Lindahn Checkmark
Prayers to Broken Stones 1991-01-00 Dan Simmons Dark Harvest 0-913165-58-1
$55.00?$: US dollar
viii+
322+
[7]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Ron Lindahn , Val Lakey Lindahn Checkmark
Prayers to Broken Stones 1992-02-00 Dan Simmons Headline 0-7472-7935-7
£8.99?£: UK pound
311
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 Steve Crisp Checkmark
Prayers to Broken Stones 1992-02-00 Dan Simmons Headline 0-7472-0499-3
£15.99?£: UK pound
311
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Steve Crisp  
Prayers to Broken Stones 1992-05-00 Dan Simmons Bantam Spectra (Spectra Special Editions) 0-553-29665-5
$5.99?$: US dollar
403
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.
coll Gary Ruddell Checkmark
Midnight Graffiti 1992-10-00 ed. Jessica Horsting, James Van Hise Warner Books 0-446-36307-3
$5.99?$: US dollar
xiv+
365
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.
anth Martin Cannon  
Prayers to Broken Stones 1992-11-00 Dan Simmons Headline 0-7472-3816-2
£5.99?£: UK pound
469
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.
coll Steve Crisp  
Midnight Graffiti 1993-02-00 ed. Jessica Horsting, James Van Hise Warner Books / SFBC 03882
$8.98?$: US dollar
xiv+
365
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.
anth Martin Cannon Checkmark
Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women 1995-01-00 ed. Marvin Kaye GuildAmerica Books / SFBC 1-56865-116-3 / 03334
$10.98?$: US dollar
xiv+
530
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Larry Lurin Checkmark
Prayers to Broken Stones 1997-10-00 Dan Simmons Bantam Spectra 0-553-76252-4   403
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 Gary Ruddell  
Prayers to Broken Stones date unknown Dan Simmons Bantam Spectra (Spectra Special Editions) 0-553-29665-5
$5.99?$: US dollar
403
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.
coll Gary Ruddell Checkmark
Midnight Graffiti date unknown ed. Jessica Horsting, James Van Hise Warner Books 0-446-36307-3
$5.99?$: US dollar
xiv+
365
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.
anth Martin Cannon Checkmark
Prayers to Broken Stones date unknown Dan Simmons Bantam Spectra (Spectra Special Editions) 0-553-29665-5
$5.99?$: US dollar
403+
[14]
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.
coll Gary Ruddell Checkmark
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