Title: City of Truth

Title: City of Truth Title Record # 16087
Author: James Morrow
Date: 1990-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English

Note: Comment by the author in Nebula Awards 28:

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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Other Titles

Translations

Translated Serializations

Year	Language	Title
1992	French	Cité de vérité
1993^ⓘTranslated by Irene Bonhorst	German	Die Stadt der Wahrheit
1997^ⓘTranslated by Arkadiusz Nakoniecznik	Polish	Miasto prawdy
1997	Italian	Il ribelle di Veritas

Year	Language	Title
1992^ⓘTranslated by Hajdu Gábor	Hungarian	Az igazmondók városa (Part 2 of 3)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
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
City of Truth	1990-00-00	James Morrow	Legend / Century (Legend Novellas)	0-7126-3693-5	£9.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	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	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	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	ed. Kuczka Péter^?Kuczka, Peter	Móra Ferenc Ifjúsági Könyvkiadó^?Mora Ferenc Ifjusagi Konyvkiado		Ft 72^?Ft: Hungarian forint. ISO code: HUF	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
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. ISO code: USD	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. ISO code: USD	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. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	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
Hugo and Nebula Anthology 1993	1993-00-00	ed. Brad Templeton	ClariNet Communications Corp.	1-56941-012-7	$29.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	0	other^?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes.	anth
City of Truth	1993-05-00	James Morrow	Harcourt Brace	0-15-618042-1	$7.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	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. ISO code: USD	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. ISO code: USD	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. ISO codes: PLZ in 1950-1994, PLN since 1995	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
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. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999	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. ISO code: USD	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. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
City of Truth	2013-08-20	James Morrow	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-4804-3865-1	$7.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		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	£2.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	chap

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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