Title: The Practice Effect Title Record # 7517
Author: David Brin
Date: 1984-04-00
Type: NOVEL
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Language: English
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Other Titles

Translations	Translated Serializations
Year Language Title 1986ⓘTranslated by Rainer Schmidt German Der Übungseffekt?Der Uebungseffekt	Year Language Title 1990ⓘData from baza.fantasta.pl. Translated by Darosław Jerzy Toruń Polish Stare jest piękne (part 2)?Stare jest piekne (part 2) 1992 Italian L'effetto Anomalia (Complete Novel)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win	1985 Balrog	Novel
27	1985 Locus	Best SF Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
The Practice Effect	1984-04-00	David Brin	Bantam Books	0-553-23992-9	$2.75?$: US dollar	277	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	Peter Goodfellow
The Practice Effect	1984-05-00	David Brin	Bantam Books	0-553-23992-9	$2.75?$: US dollar	277	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	Peter Goodfellow
The Practice Effect	1984-10-00	David Brin	Bantam Books / SFBC	6213	$3.98?$: US dollar	249	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Jill Bauman
The Practice Effect	1984-12-00	David Brin	Bantam Books	0-553-25215-1	$2.95?$: US dollar	277	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	Peter Goodfellow
The Practice Effect	1985-09-00	David Brin	Bantam Books	0-553-25593-2	$3.50?$: US dollar	277	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	Peter Goodfellow
The Practice Effect	1986-02-00	David Brin	Bantam Books (UK)	0-553-17184-4	£1.95?£: UK pound	277	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	Bruce Pennington
The Practice Effect	1987-08-00	David Brin	Bantam Spectra	0-553-26981-X	$3.95?$: US dollar	277	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	Jim Burns
The Practice Effect	1987-11-00	David Brin	Bantam Spectra	0-553-26981-X	$3.95?$: US dollar	277	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	Jim Burns
The Practice Effect	1991-08-00	David Brin	Bantam Books (UK)	0-553-17184-4	£3.99?£: UK pound	277	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
The Practice Effect	1994-09-00	David Brin	Bantam Spectra	0-553-26981-X	$5.99?$: US dollar	277	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	Dave Dorman
The Practice Effect	2009-12-23	David Brin	Spectra / Ballantine Books	978-0-307-57502-9	$7.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Dave Dorman
The Practice Effect	2012-05-22	David Brin	Audible Studios		$19.95?$: US dollar		digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	novel
The Practice Effect	2016-05-03	David Brin	Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio	978-1-5113-9714-8	$9.99?$: US dollar		audio MP3 CD?Compact disc with mp3-encoded audio tracks	novel
The Practice Effect	2020-06-17	David Brin	David Brin	979-8-6540-1705-5	£4.78?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Patrick Farley
The Practice Effect	date unknown	David Brin	Bantam Spectra	0-553-26981-X	$4.99?$: US dollar	277	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	Jim Burns
The Practice Effect	date unknown	David Brin	Bantam Spectra	0-553-26981-X	$6.99?$: US dollar	277	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	Dave Dorman
The Practice Effect	date unknown	David Brin	Bantam Spectra	978-0-553-26981-9	$7.99?$: US dollar	277	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	Dave Dorman

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Reviews

• Review by Faren Miller (1984) in Locus, #277 February 1984
• Review by Algis Budrys (1984) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1984
• Review [French] by
  Élisabeth Vonarburg^?Elisabeth Vonarburg
  (1984) in Solaris, #56
• Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1984) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1984
• Review by Baird Searles (1984) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1984
• Review by Keith Soltys (1984) in Fantasy Review, August 1984
• Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1984) in Science Fiction Review, Fall 1984
• Review by Frank Catalano (1984) in Amazing Stories, September 1984
• Review by Darrell Bain (2005) in My 100 Most Readable (and Re-Readable) Science Fiction Novels