Title: V.A.O.
Title Record # 23568
Author: Geoff Ryman
Date: 2002-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Author: Geoff Ryman
Date: 2002-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Synopsis: From the front flap of the PS hardback edition: "Gus has his squeeze Mandy. Mandy used to be a lap dancer. She's still got a body, I can tell you. She's also got a mouth and the brains to use it. Her cover is that she used to be in property development. Well yeah maybe. A certain kind of old babe has the hardest eyes you'll ever see. Mandy says, "The trouble with that scum is they'll turn the heat up on all of us." The Happy Farm keeps its elderly guests protected with the latest security. VAO they call it, Victim Activated Ordnance. Sound guns or microwaves blast thieves and juveniles alike. The Happy Farm provides drugs and physiotherapy and advanced Neurobics to help heal its guests' bodies and minds. It also costs over $100,000 a year. So, some of the guests have turned to unorthodox ways of paying their bills. They hack it out of other people's bank accounts. Then a gang of aged street people starts taking more direct action. They turn the VAO onto the people it's supposed to protect: the young, the wealthy. Age Rage they call it. They even have a charismatic leader called Silhouette. The cosy criminals of the Happy Farm realise that Silhouette is drawing all together too much attention to the scourge of elderly crime. And the best way to do something about that is to catch Silhouette themselves."
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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20 | 2003 Locus | Best Novelette |
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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V.A.O. | 2002-09-00 | Geoff Ryman | PS Publishing | 1-902880-49-8 | £25.00?£: UK pound |
67 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Edward Miller | |
V.A.O. | 2002-09-00 | Geoff Ryman | PS Publishing | 1-902880-48-X | £8.00?£: UK pound |
67 | 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 | Edward Miller | |
Cities | 2003-04-00 | ed. Peter Crowther | Gollancz / Orion | 0-575-07504-X | £12.99?£: UK pound |
xi+ 292 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Edward Miller | |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection | 2003-07-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | St. Martin's Griffin | 0-312-30859-0 | $35.00?$: US dollar |
xxxix+ [1]+ 648 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Dominic Harman | |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection | 2003-07-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | St. Martin's Griffin | 0-312-30860-4 | $19.95?$: US dollar |
xxxix+ 648 |
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 | Dominic Harman | |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection | 2003-07-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | St. Martin's Griffin / SFBC | 58543 | $14.99?$: US dollar |
xlvi+ 797 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Dominic Harman | |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection | 2003-08-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | St. Martin's Griffin | 0-312-71062-3 | $27.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | Dominic Harman | ||
The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 16th Annual Collection | 2003-12-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | Robinson | 1-84119-795-5 | £9.99?£: UK pound |
xlv+ 719 |
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 | Pete Rozycki | |
Cities | 2004-04-00 | ed. Peter Crowther | Four Walls Eight Windows | 1-56858-304-4 | $17.00?$: US dollar |
xi+ 292 |
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 | Edward Miller | |
Moloch | 2005-02-00 | ed. Peter Crowther | Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe (Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction #23280) |
3-404-23280-1 | €8.00?€: Euro |
431 | 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 | Michael Whelan | |
Paradise Tales | 2011-07-12 | Geoff Ryman | Small Beer Press | 978-1-931520-64-5 | $16.00?$: US dollar |
313 | 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. |
coll | Giovis Dimitrios | |
Paradise Tales | 2011-07-12 | Geoff Ryman | Small Beer Press | 978-1-931520-44-7 | $9.95?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 16th Annual Collection | 2011-09-09 | ed. Gardner Dozois | Robinson | 978-1-78033-264-2 | £9.98?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth | |||
Cities | date unknown | ed. Peter Crowther | Thunder's Mouth Press | 1-56858-304-4 | $17.00?$: US dollar |
xi+ 292 |
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 | Edward Miller |
Reviews
- Review by Jonathan Strahan (2002) in Locus, #500 September 2002
- Review by Paul Brazier (2002) in Interzone, #184 November-December 2002
- Review by Steve Jeffery (2003) in Vector 228
- Review by Paul Di Filippo (2003) in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2003