Title: The Affirmation Title Record # 2471
Author: Christopher Priest
Date: 1981-05-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Dream Archipelago
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Language: English
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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title 1981ⓘTranslated by Annemarie Kindt Dutch De Droomarchipel 1984ⓘTranslated by Walter Brumm German Der weiße Raum?Der weisse Raum 1990ⓘTranslated by Paula Reis Portuguese A Afirmação 1990ⓘTranslated by Jacques Chambon French La fontaine pétrifiante?La fontaine petrifiante

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	1981 BSFA	Best Novel
Win	1982 Ditmar	Best International Long Fiction
25	1982 Locus	Best SF Novel
Nomination (as Der weiße Raum?Der weisse Raum )	1985 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
De Droomarchipel	1981-00-00	Christopher Priest	Centripress (Centripress SF)	90-305-0249-5		255	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	Tais Teng
The Affirmation	1981-05-00	Christopher Priest	Charles Scribner's Sons	0-684-16957-6	$10.95?$: US dollar	213	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Paul Bacon
The Affirmation	1981-05-25	Christopher Priest	Faber and Faber	0-571-11684-1	£6.25?£: UK pound	213	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Affirmation	1983-02-00	Christopher Priest	Arena (UK)	0-09-930680-8	£2.50?£: UK pound	213	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
Der weiße Raum?Der weisse Raum	1984-05-00	Christopher Priest	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4073)	3-453-31037-3	DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	301	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	Jobst Teltschik
The Affirmation	1988-12-00	Christopher Priest	VGSF / Gollancz (VGSF Classics #29)	0-575-04283-4	£2.99?£: UK pound	213	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	Geoffrey Gove
A Afirmação	1990-00-00	Christopher Priest	Caminho ( Caminho ficção científica?Caminho ficcao cientifica #115)	972-21-0074-2		234	unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	novel
La fontaine pétrifiante	1990-03-00	Christopher Priest	Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Science Fiction #5346)	2-266-03169-4		285	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	W. Siudmak
The Affirmation	1996-09-00	Christopher Priest	Touchstone / Simon & Schuster UK	0-684-81614-8	£6.99?£: UK pound	213	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	Holly Warburton
La fontaine pétrifiante?La fontaine petrifiante	2003-02-20	Christopher Priest	Gallimard (Folio SF #128)	2-07-042351-4		367	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	Éric Scala?Eric Scala
The Affirmation	2006-02-00	Christopher Priest	Gollancz / Orion	0-575-07577-5	£7.99?£: UK pound	247	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
The Affirmation	2011-00-00	Christopher Priest	Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-1-4072-4410-5	£7.99?£: UK pound	viii+ 247	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	Tyler Stalman
The Affirmation	2011-10-13	Christopher Priest	Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-0-575-09946-3	£7.99?£: UK pound	viii+ 247	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	Tyler Stalman
The Affirmation	2011-10-13	Christopher Priest	Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-0-575-11499-9	£4.99?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Tyler Stalman
The Affirmation	2014-11-11	Christopher Priest	Valancourt Books (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)	978-1-941147-47-4	$15.99?$: US dollar	vii+ 217	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

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Reviews

• Review by Todd Lerner (1981) in The Patchin Review, Number Two
• Review by Joseph Nicholas (1981) in Vector 104
• Review by Ian Watson (1981) in Foundation, #23 October 1981
• Review by Gene DeWeese (1981) in Science Fiction Review, Winter 1981
• Review [French] by Emmanuel Jouanne (1982) in Fiction, #325
• Review [French] by Pascal J. Thomas (1982) in A&A, #77
• Review by Michael Bishop (1982) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1982
• Review [French] by
  Stéphane Nicot^?Stephane Nicot
  (1982) in Fiction, #327
• Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1982) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1, 1982
• Review by Andrew Tidmarsh (1982) in Science Fiction Review, Summer 1982
• Review by David Pringle (1983) in Imagine, June 1983
• Review by Colin Greenland (1983) in Interzone, #5 Autumn 1983
• Review by Bill Carlin (1983) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 7, Number 2
• Review [German] by Christian Lautenschlag (1986) in Das Science Fiction Jahr Ausgabe 1986
• Review by Helen McNabb (1989) in Paperback Inferno, #80
• Review [French] by Evariste Blanchet (1990) in Yellow Submarine, #77
• Review by Bruce Gillespie (1991) in SF Commentary, #69/70
• Review [French] by
  Stéphane Nicot^?Stephane Nicot
  (2003) in Galaxies, #29
• Review by David Hebblethwaite (2014) in Big Sky, #4: SF Masterworks 2
• Review by Vacuous Wastrel (2014) in Big Sky, #4: SF Masterworks 2
• Review by Rob Adey (2014) in Big Sky, #4: SF Masterworks 2