Title: The Island
Title Record # 1018721
Author: Peter Watts
Date: 2009-07-01
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Sunflower Cycle
Webpages: starshipsofa.com
Language: English
User Rating: 9.25 (4 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
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Author: Peter Watts
Date: 2009-07-01
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Sunflower Cycle
Webpages: starshipsofa.com
Language: English
User Rating: 9.25 (4 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
Current Tags: space opera (1), artificial intelligence (1), suspended animation (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1), evolution (1), far future (1), dyson sphere (1), higher intelligence (1), interstellar travel (1) Add Tags
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Awards
| Place | Year and Award | Category |
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| 1 | 2010 Hugo | Best Novelette |
| 3 | 2010 Locus | Best Novelette |
| Finalists | 2010 Sturgeon | Best Short Science Fiction |
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Nomination
(as L'île?L'ile )
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2012 Imaginaire | Nouvelle étrangère |
Publications
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The New Space Opera 2 | 2009-07-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Strahan | Eos / HarperCollins | 978-0-06-189150-2 | $12.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Stephan Martiniere | ||
| The New Space Opera 2 | 2009-07-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Strahan | Eos / HarperCollins | 978-0-06-156235-8 | $15.99?$: US dollar |
viii+ 544 |
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 | Stephan Martiniere |  |
| The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four | 2010-03-01 | ed. Jonathan Strahan | Night Shade Books | 978-1-59780-257-4 | $9.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | John Berkey | ||
| The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four | 2010-03-29 | ed. Jonathan Strahan | Night Shade Books | 978-1-59780-171-3 | $19.95?$: US dollar |
516 | 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 | John Berkey | |
| The New Space Opera 2 | 2010-04-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Strahan | Eos / HarperCollins | 978-0-06-156236-5 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
626 | 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 | Stephan Martiniere | |
| Year's Best SF 15 | 2010-06-00 | ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell | HarperCollins e-books | 978-0-06-199553-8 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | |||
| Year's Best SF 15 | 2010-06-00 | ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell | Eos / HarperCollins | 978-0-06-172175-5 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
xvi+ 494 |
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 | Dominic Harman | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 | 2010-06-01 | ed. Rich Horton | Prime Books | 978-1-60701-218-4 | $19.95?$: US dollar |
540 | 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 | Pat SM / Fotolia | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2010 | 2010-06-01 | ed. Rich Horton | Prime Books | 978-1-60701-246-7 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Pat SM / Fotolia | |
|
| The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 | 2010-06-21 | ed. Allan Kaster | Audiotext | $25.19?$: US dollar |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
anth | Maurizio Manzieri | |||
| The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 | 2010-06-21 | ed. Allan Kaster | Audiotext | 978-1-884612-91-6 | audio CD?Compact disc with standard audio tracks |
anth | Maurizio Manzieri | |||
| StarShipSofa, No 143 | 2010-06-30 | ed. Tony C. Smith | StarShipSofa | $0.00?$: US dollar |
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
mag | |
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| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection | 2010-07-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | St. Martin's Griffin | 978-0-312-60898-9 | $21.99?$: US dollar |
xlii+ 642 |
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 | Slawek Wojtowicz | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection | 2010-07-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | St. Martin's Griffin | 978-0-312-60897-2 | $40.00?$: US dollar |
xlii+ 642 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Slawek Wojtowicz | |
| The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 | 2010-07-17 | ed. Allan Kaster | Audiotext | 978-1-884612-93-0 | $4.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Maurizio Manzieri | ||
| The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 23rd Annual Collection | 2010-09-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | Robinson | 978-1-84901-382-6 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
xliii+ 692 |
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 | ||
| The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 23rd Annual Collection | 2010-09-16 | ed. Gardner Dozois | Robinson | 978-1-84901-660-5 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | |
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| Beyond the Rift | 2013-11-00 | Peter Watts | Tachyon Publications | 978-1-61696-127-5 | $9.99?$: US dollar |
0 | ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | ||
| Beyond the Rift | 2013-11-00 | Peter Watts | Tachyon Publications | 978-1-61696-125-1 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
229+ [1] |
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 | Hugh Sicotte | |
| Twenty-First Century Science Fiction | 2013-11-00 | ed. David G. Hartwell, Patrick Nielsen Hayden | Robinson | 978-1-4721-1242-2 | £12.99?£: UK pound |
542 | 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 | ||
| Twenty-First Century Science Fiction | 2013-11-05 | ed. David G. Hartwell, Patrick Nielsen Hayden | Tor | 978-0-7653-2600-3 | $34.99?$: US dollar |
572 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Shutterstock | |
| Twenty-First Century Science Fiction | 2013-11-21 | ed. David G. Hartwell, Patrick Nielsen Hayden | Robinson | 978-1-4721-1438-9 | £8.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | |
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| Twenty-First Century Science Fiction | 2014-09-00 | ed. David G. Hartwell, Patrick Nielsen Hayden | Tor | 978-0-7653-2601-0 | $21.99?$: US dollar |
572 | 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 | |
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| The Final Frontier | 2018-07-00 | ed. Neil Clarke | Night Shade Books | 978-1-59780-939-9 | $17.99?$: US dollar |
[10]+ 579+ [6] |
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 | Fred Gambino | |
| The Final Frontier | 2018-07-00 | ed. Neil Clarke | Night Shade Books | 978-1-59780-650-3 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
0 | ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Fred Gambino | |
| Strangest of All: Anthology of Astrobiological Science Fiction | 2020-05-00 | ed. Julie Novakova | European Astrobiology Institute | $0.00?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | |
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| The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book | 2020-10-01 | ed. Allan Kaster | Infinivox | 979-868276506-5 | $22.99?$: US dollar |
viii+ 509 |
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 | Maurizio Manzieri | |
| The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book | 2020-10-20 | ed. Allan Kaster | Infinivox | $6.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Maurizio Manzieri | |||
| Year's Best SF 15 | date unknown | ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell | Eos / HarperCollins | 978-0-06-172175-5 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
xvi+ 494 |
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 | |