Title: City of Truth
Title Record # 16087
Author: James Morrow
Date: 1990-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
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Author: James Morrow
Date: 1990-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
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Comment by the author in Nebula Awards 28:
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City of Truth traces to a short story, Veritas, that I wrote for George Zebrowski's anthology series, Synergy. In that particular yarn, I systematically delineated the concept of a truth-telling dystopia, but shortly after its publication I began to feel that the premise deserved something beyond the spy-thriller plot I'd erected. When my then-current British editor, Deborah Beale, invited me to contribute to her Legend Novellas series at Random Century, I began thinking more deeply about the conundrum of candor. "Honesty is a good thing," I told myself, "but what if my young son were dying? Wouldn't my first instinct be to spare him the truth?" And so I returned to Veritas, putting the main character through an ordeal far more intense than the one faced by his counterpart in the original story.While the first edition bears a January 1991 publication date (qualifying it for the 1992 Nebula ballot) it seems the book was available as early as November 1990 as Locus Magazine carried reviews in November 1990 (review by Faren Miller) and in December 1990 (review by Mark R. Kelly). The story has a 1990 copyright date which may explain why there are catalogue listings for this book for "1990."
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Awards
| Place | Year and Award | Category |
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| 10 | 1992 Locus | Best Novella |
| Win | 1993 Nebula | Novella |
Publications
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| City of Truth | 1990-00-00 | James Morrow | Legend / Century (Legend Novellas) | 0-7126-3693-5 | Ł9.99?Ł: UK pound |
104 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Steve Crisp |  |
| City of Truth | 1991-06-00 | James Morrow | Legend / Century (Legend Novellas) | 0-7126-4575-6 | Ł4.99?Ł: UK pound |
104 | 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. |
chap | Steve Crisp | |
Galaktika 137: Tudományos-fantasztikus antológia?Galaktika 137: Tudomanyos-fantasztikus antologia |
1992-02-00 |
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Kuczka Péter?Kuczka, Peter |
Móra Ferenc Ifjúsági Könyvkiadó?Mora Ferenc Ifjusagi Konyvkiado |
Ft 72?Ft: Hungarian forint |
96 | 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 | Mark Harrison | |
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| Cité de vérité | 1992-04-00 | James Morrow | Denoël?Denoel (Présence du Futur?Presence du Futur #530) |
2-207-30530-9 | 188 | 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. |
chap | Roland Cat | ||
| City of Truth | 1992-06-00 | James Morrow | St. Martin's Press | 0-312-07672-X | $14.95?$: US dollar |
104 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Steve Crisp | |
| City of Truth | 1992-07-00 | James Morrow | St. Martin's Press / SFBC | 01741 | $6.98?$: US dollar |
104 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Steve Crisp | |
| Die Stadt der Wahrheit | 1993-00-00 | James Morrow | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #5050) | 3-453-06621-9 | DM 8.90?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
158 | 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". |
chap |
Jörg Remé?Joerg Reme
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| Hugo and Nebula Anthology 1993 | 1993-00-00 | ed. Brad Templeton | ClariNet Communications Corp. | 1-56941-012-7 | $29.95?$: US dollar |
0 | other?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes. |
anth | |
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| City of Truth | 1993-05-00 | James Morrow | Harcourt Brace | 0-15-618042-1 | $7.95?$: US dollar |
144 | 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. |
chap | Steven Cooley | |
| Nebula Awards 28 | 1994-04-00 | ed. James Morrow | Harcourt Brace | 0-15-600039-3 | $12.95?$: US dollar |
xiii+ 329 |
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 | Craig Stuart Rosenberg | |
| Nebula Awards 28 | 1994-04-00 | ed. James Morrow | Harcourt Brace | 0-15-100082-4 | $24.95?$: US dollar |
xiii+ 329 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Craig Stuart Rosenberg | |
| Nebula '92 | 1997-00-00 | ed. James Morrow | Prószyński i S-ka?Proszynski i S-ka (Nowa Fantastyka) |
83-7180-065-7 | zł 16.50?zł: Polish zloty |
455+ [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. |
anth | |
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| Il ribelle di Veritas | 1997-09-00 | James Morrow | Editrice Nord (Cosmo Collana di Fantascienza #282) | 88-429-0856-8 | Lit 18,000?Lit: Italian lira |
154 | 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. |
chap | Barclay Shaw | |
| Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction | 2011-06-00 | ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman | Wildside Press | 978-1-4344-3079-3 | $49.99?$: US dollar |
991 | 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 | ||
| Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction | 2011-12-20 | ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman | Wildside Press | 978-1-4344-4035-8 | $39.99?$: 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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| City of Truth | 2013-08-20 | James Morrow | Open Road Integrated Media | 978-1-4804-3865-1 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
chap | Mauricio Diaz | ||
| City of Truth | 2013-10-31 | James Morrow | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-08194-9 | Ł2.99?Ł: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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Reviews
- Review by Faren Miller (1990) in Locus, #358 November 1990
- Review by Mark R. Kelly (1990) in Locus, #359 December 1990
- Review by Valerie Housden (1991) in Vector 161
- Review by Wendy Bradley (1991) in Interzone, #48 June 1991
- Review by Wendy Bradley (1991) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, July-August 1991, (1991)
- Review by John Gregory Betancourt (1992) in Amazing Stories, July 1992
- Review [French] by Marc Lemosquet (1992) in Yellow Submarine, #94
- Review by Orson Scott Card (1992) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1992
- Review by Baird Searles (1992) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1992
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1992) in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, October 1992
- Review by Darrell Schweitzer (1993) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, Fall 1993
- Review by Glen Engel-Cox [as by Glen E. Cox] (1993) in First Impressions, Installment Nine
- Review by Doug Fratz (1993) in Quantum, Spring/Summer 1993