Title: An Alien Light Title Record # 2441
Author: Nancy Kress
Date: 1988-01-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Translations
Year Language Title 1989 Italian La città della luce 1995ⓘTranslated by Hendrik P. Linckens & Antje Linckens German Fremdes Licht

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Preliminary Nominees	1988 Prometheus	Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel
30	1989 Locus	Best SF Novel
Nomination (as Fremdes Licht)	1996 Kurd Lasswitz Prize	Bester ausländischer SF-Roman

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
An Alien Light	1988-01-00	Nancy Kress	Arbor House / William Morrow	0-87795-940-4	$18.95?$: US dollar	370	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ron Walotsky
An Alien Light	1988-03-00	Nancy Kress	Arbor House / SFBC	11796	$5.98?$: US dollar	370	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ron Walotsky
An Alien Light	1988-11-00	Nancy Kress	Legend	0-7126-2389-2	£6.95?£: UK pound	370	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	Tim White
An Alien Light	1988-11-00	Nancy Kress	Legend	0-7126-2384-1	£12.95?£: UK pound	370	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Tim White
An Alien Light	1989-04-00	Nancy Kress	Avon	0-380-70706-3	$3.50?$: US dollar	360	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	Nenad Jakesevic , Sonja Lamut
An Alien Light	1989-10-00	Nancy Kress	Legend	0-09-961990-3	£4.50?£: UK pound	480	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	Tim White
An Alien Light	date unknown	Nancy Kress	Avon	0-380-70706-3	$3.50?$: US dollar	360	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	Nenad Jakesevic , Sonja Lamut

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Reviews

• Review by Faren Miller (1987) in Locus, #321 October 1987
• Review by Don D'Ammassa (1988) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #100 January 1988
• Review by Algis Budrys (1988) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1988
• Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1988) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1988
• Review by Baird Searles (1988) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1988
• Review by Maxim Jakubowski (1988) in Foundation, #43 Summer 1988
• Review by Martyn Taylor (1989) in Vector 149
• Review by Janice M. Eisen (1989) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, September-October 1989
• Review by Ian Watson (1989) in Foundation, #45 Spring 1989
• Review by Colin Steele (1990) in SF Commentary, #68
• Review by Colin Bird (1990) in Paperback Inferno, #84
• Review by Michael M. Levy (1990) in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review Annual 1989