Title: Finity
Title Record # 19662
Author: John Barnes
Date: 1999-03-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: John Barnes
Date: 1999-03-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: From the flaps of the Tor first edition: "Lyle Peripart's world is coming apart. Up until just a few days ago he was a settled professor at the University of Auckland. The descendant of American expatriates, he's proud of his ancestry and privately doesn't care for the Reichs that have dominated the world since the Axis victory over a century ago. But he's the quiet type, not looking for a fight.
Then Lyle is recruited for private industry by the mysterious industrialist Geoffrey Iphwin - and that's when everything stops making sense.
His fiancee turns out to be a gun-toting weapons expert who saves him from assassination - and who immediately afterwards, remembers nothing of what she did. But what she does remember is that she grew up in a world with an entirely different history, in which America surrendered to the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
Even stranger, several of their friends turn out to have each grown up in worlds with different histories still. Worse, they gradually realize that not one of them has ever talked to anyone inside the continental United States. In fact, just thinking about the United States is hard - as if something is trying to stop them.
Something, in fact, seems to be trying to kill each of them. And Geoffrey Iphwin is trying to pull them together - for a quest into what's actually going on."
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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19 | 2000 Locus | Best SF Novel |
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Finity | 1999-03-00 | John Barnes | Tor | 0-312-86118-4 | $22.95?$: US dollar |
303 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | www.choppingblock.com | |
Finity | 1999-05-00 | John Barnes | Tor / SFBC | 19156 | $10.98?$: US dollar |
303 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | www.choppingblock.com | |
Finity | 1999-12-00 | John Barnes | Tor | 0-812-57145-2 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
303 | 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 | www.choppingblock.com | |
Finity | 2000-01-00 | John Barnes | Gollancz | 0-575-06890-6 | £16.99?£: UK pound |
303 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | John Harris | |
Finity | 2000-01-00 | John Barnes | Gollancz | 0-575-06891-4 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
303 | 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. |
novel | John Harris | |
Finity | 2001-01-00 | John Barnes | Gollancz | 1-85798-740-3 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
303 | 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 | John Harris |
Reviews
- Review by Gary K. Wolfe (1999) in Locus, #457 February 1999
- Review by Russell Letson (1999) in Locus, #458 March 1999
- Review by Curt Wohleber (1999) in Science Fiction Weekly, 1 Mar 1999
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1999) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 1999
- Review by Mark L. Olson (1999) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, Fall 1999
- Review by Damien Broderick (2000) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 2000
- Review by John D. Owen (2000) in Vector 211
- Review by Duncan Lawie (2000) in The Zone, Summer 2000