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Title: With Thimbles, with Forks, and Hope Title Record # 40780
Author: Kate Wilhelm
Date: 1981-11-23
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series: Constance and Charlie
Language: English
Synopsis: A married couple who work as investigators are commissioned by an insurer who is worried that a client is planning suicide; they find him mysteriously controlled by a strange woman.
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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1983Translated by Biggy Winter
German Ein Untier an der Angel
1984Translated by Sylvie Audoly
French Avec un bateau, une auguille et un peu d'espoir
1989Translated by Zvijezdana Vlahović
Croatian Napršnjacima, viljuškama i nadom

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
10 1982 Locus Best Novella
4 1982 Hugo Best Novella

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Listen, Listen 1981-11-00 Kate Wilhelm Houghton Mifflin 0-395-31269-8
$13.95?$: US dollar
301
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Jack Ribik Checkmark
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 23, 1981 1981-11-23 ed. George H. Scithers Davis Publications  
$1.50?$: US dollar
180
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 Wayne D. Barlowe Checkmark
Isaac Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders 1983-03-00 ed. Shawna McCarthy Davis Publications  
$2.95?$: US dollar
288
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".
anth Checkmark
Isaac Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders 1983-04-00 ed. Shawna McCarthy The Dial Press 0-385-27912-4
$12.95?$: US dollar
288
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Science Fiction Story Reader 20 1983-07-00 ed. Wolfgang Jeschke Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3995) 3-453-30931-6
DM 7.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
352
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 Peter Goodfellow Checkmark
Ecoute, écoute ! 1984-04-00 Kate Wilhelm
Denoël?Denoel
(
Présence du Futur?Presence du Futur
#380)
2-207-30380-2   243
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 Laurence Terrel Checkmark
Listen, Listen 1984-12-00 Kate Wilhelm Berkley Books 0-425-07327-0
$2.95?$: US dollar
263
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 Checkmark
Isaac Asimov's Choice 1986-10-23 ed. uncredited Robert Hale 0-7090-2764-8
£10.95?£: UK pound
255
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Sirius, #154 1989-03-05 ed.
Hrvoje Prćić?Hrvoje Prcic
Vjesnik  
Din 5,000?Din: Serbian and Yugoslavian dinar
132
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.
mag Mario Rosanda Checkmark
A Flush of Shadows 1995-06-00 Kate Wilhelm St. Martin's Press 0-312-13075-9
$22.95?$: US dollar
xii+
336
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Michael Accordino Checkmark
A Flush of Shadows 1996-06-00 Kate Wilhelm Fawcett Crest / Ballantine 0-449-22434-1
$5.99?$: US dollar
xii+
353
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  
Listen, Listen 2013-07-25 Kate Wilhelm Gateway / Orion 978-0-575-12018-1
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Masters of Science Fiction: Kate Wilhelm, Volume 1 2020-03-29 Kate Wilhelm Centipede Press (Masters of Science Fiction (Centipede Press)) 978-1-61347-208-8
$95.00?$: US dollar
736
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Jim Keegan , Ruth Keegan Checkmark
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