Title: Looking for the Mahdi Title Record # 234
Author: N. Lee Wood
Date: 1996-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Translations
Year Language Title 1998ⓘTranslated by Lucia Popescu Romanian În căutarea lui Mahdi?In cautarea lui Mahdi 1998ⓘTranslated by Walter Brumm German In Erwartung des Mahdi 2000ⓘTranslated by Pierre-Paul Durastanti French Le gardien de l'ange

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nominations Below Cutoff	1996 Tiptree / Otherwise	Gender-bending SF
6	1997 Locus	Best First Novel
Finalists	1997 Clarke	Best Science Fiction Novel
Nomination (as In Erwartung des Mahdi)	1999 Kurd Lasswitz Prize	Bestes ausländisches Werk
Nomination (as Le gardien de l'ange)	2001 Imaginaire	Traduction

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Looking for the Mahdi	1996-02-00	N. Lee Wood	Ace Books	0-441-00298-6	$12.00?$: US dollar	293	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	Bruce Jensen
Looking for the Mahdi	1996-11-00	N. Lee Wood	Vista	0-575-60109-4	£5.99?£: UK pound	351	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	Steve Crisp
Looking for the Mahdi	1997-08-00	N. Lee Wood	Ace Books	0-441-00450-4	$5.99?$: US dollar	337	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	Bruce Jensen
In Erwartung des Mahdi	1998-00-00	N. Lee Wood	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #5985)	3-453-14875-4	DM 17.90?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	430	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	doManski
În căutarea lui Mahdi?In cautarea lui Mahdi	1998-00-00	N. Lee Wood	Editura Nemira (Nautilus #132)	973-569-196-5		364	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
Le gardien de l'ange	2000-02-08	N. Lee Wood	Flammarion (Imagine)	2-08-067875-2	F104.00?F: French frank	378	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	Sofiane Tilikete

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Reviews

• Review by Shira Daemon (1996) in Locus, #420 January 1996
• Review by Carolyn Cushman (1996) in Locus, #421 February 1996
• Review by Tad Dembinski (1996) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1996
• Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1996) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 1996
• Review by Ian Sales (1997) in Vector 192
• Review by Don D'Ammassa (1997) in Science Fiction Chronicle, April/May 1997
• Review by Norman Spinrad (1997) in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1997
• Review by Colin Greenland (1997) in Foundation, #70 Summer 1997
• Review [French] by Marie-Laure Vauge (2000) in Galaxies, #16