Title: The Pickup Artist
Title Record # 20957
Author: Terry Bisson
Date: 2001-04-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: Terry Bisson
Date: 2001-04-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: From the front flap of the Tor first edition: "From the award-winning author of Pirates of the Universe, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, comes The Pickup Artist - a sharp, witty, and subversive exploration of the future of art, culture, and society. In the tradition of Ray Bradbury's fireman who burns books in Fahrenheit 451, our hero, Hank Shapiro, is a pickup artist, a government agent who gathers for retirement creative works whose time has come and gone. You see, there's simply not enough room in the world for all the art, so anything past a certain age must be cataloged, archived in the records, and destroyed, paving the way for new art. It's a job that comes with risk and the pay's lousy, but it covers the bills. And, after all, this year's art is better than last year's, isn't it?
But what happens is not nearly as important as the telling. Terry Bisson is an American writer in the satirical tradition of Twain and Vonnegut and perhaps Richard Brautigan. He can make you laugh and touch your heart in the same sentence. This is a book about love, death, and America."
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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11 | 2002 Locus | Best SF Novel |
Nomination
(as Hank Shapiro au pays de la récup'?Hank Shapiro au pays de la recup' )
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2004 Imaginaire | Roman étranger |
Nomination ⓘNomination is for the translator, Gilles Goullet and was made in conjunction with the translations for Meucs and Échecs et maths
(as Hank Shapiro au pays de la récup'?Hank Shapiro au pays de la recup' )
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2004 Imaginaire | Traduction |
Publications
Displaying all variants and translations • Do not display translations • Do not display variants or translations
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Pickup Artist | 2001-04-00 | Terry Bisson | Tor | 0-312-87403-0 | $22.95?$: US dollar |
240 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | David Gallo | |
The Pickup Artist | 2002-04-00 | Terry Bisson | Tor | 0-312-87421-9 | $13.95?$: US dollar |
240 | 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 | David Gallo | |
Hank Shapiro au pays de la récup' | 2003-04-00 | Terry Bisson | Denoël?Denoel (Lunes d'encre) |
2-207-25303-1 | €18.00?€: Euro |
277 | 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 |
Benjamin Carré?Benjamin Carre
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The Pickup Artist | 2013-11-24 | Terry Bisson | JumperCable Books | 978-1-4756-0210-4 | $2.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by Gary K. Wolfe (2001) in Locus, #483 April 2001
- Review by Elizabeth Hand (2001) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2001
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (2001) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2001
- Review by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley] (2001) in Interzone, #170 August 2001, (2001)
- Review by Peter Heck (2002) in Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2002
- Review by Stuart Carter (2002) in Vector 224
- Review by Michael Cule (2002) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 2002
- Review by David Mathew (2002) in Foundation, #86 Autumn 2002
- Review by David Mathew (2002) in Foundation, #85 Summer 2002
- Review [German] by Thomas Harbach (2003) in phantastisch!, #9
- Review [French] by Philippe Boulier (2003) in Bifrost, #31
- Review
[French]
by
Éric Vial?Eric Vial(2003) in Galaxies, #30
- Review by John Clute (2003) in Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003 , reprinted in:
- Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003 (2016)