Title: Petra

Title: Petra Title Record # 41069
Author: Greg Bear
Date: 1982-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1984^ⓘTranslated by Emmanuel Jouanne.	French	Petra
1987^ⓘTranslated by Michèle Albaret.	French	Petra
1988^ⓘTranslated by Roland Fleissner	German	Petra
1988^ⓘTranslated by Eduardo Saló	Portuguese	Petra
1988^ⓘTranslated by 小川隆 (Takashi Ogawa)	Japanese	ペトラ^?Petora [as by グレッグ・ベア^?Gureggu Bea ]
1989^ⓘTranslated by Walter B. Relsky	Dutch	Rotssteen
1990^ⓘTranslated by Jyri-Pekka Järvinen	Finnish	Petra
1993^ⓘTranslated by unknown hands	Spanish	Petra
1993^ⓘTranslated by 小川隆 (Ogawa Takashi)	Japanese	ペトラ^?Petora [as by グレッグ・ベア^?Gureggu Bea ]
1994^ⓘTranslated by Jacek Manicki	Polish	Petra
1994^ⓘTranslated by Danilo Santoni	Italian	Petra
1995^ⓘTranslated by Florin Pîtea	Romanian	Petra
1996^ⓘTranslated by Fabio Feminò	Italian	Petra
1998^ⓘTranslated by Andoni Alonso and Iñaki Arzoz	Spanish	Petra

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win	1983 SF Chronicle	Short Story
6	1983 Locus	Best Short Story
Nomination	1983 Nebula	Short Story
Nomination	1983 World Fantasy	Best Short Fiction

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Omni, February 1982	1982-02-00	ed. Ben Bova, Ellen Datlow, Dick Teresi	Omni Publications International Ltd.	0149-8711	$2.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	130	bedsheet^?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.	mag	Bob Giusti
The Wind from a Burning Woman	1983-00-00	Greg Bear	Arkham House	0-87054-094-7	$13.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xii+ 271	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Vincent Di Fate
The Wind from a Burning Woman	1983-03-00	Greg Bear	Arkham House	0-87054-094-7	$13.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xii+ 270	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Vincent Di Fate
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction	1984-01-00	ed. Ellen Datlow	Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp.	0-8217-1319-1	$3.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	395	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	Wayne McLoughlin
Univers 1984	1984-03-15	ed. Joëlle Wintrebert^?Joelle Wintrebert	J'ai Lu (J'ai Lu - Science Fiction #1617)	2-277-21617-8		415	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	Tim White
The Wind from a Burning Woman	1984-10-00	Greg Bear	Ace Science Fiction Books	0-441-89212-4	$2.75^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xii+ 226	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.	coll	John Harris
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology	1986-12-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Arbor House	0-87795-868-8	$16.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xiv+ 239	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Abbe Lubell
Mozart en verres miroirs	1987-12-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Denoël^?Denoel ( Présence du Futur^?Presence du Futur #451)	2-207-30451-5		316	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	Tim White
Reflexos do futuro	1988-00-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Livros do Brasil (Argonauta #376)	972-38-0889-7		275	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	A. Pedro
Spiegelschatten	1988-00-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4544)	3-453-03133-4	DM 12.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	432	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	Hannah Shapero
ミラーシェード^?Mirāshēdo	1988-03-31	ed. ブルース・スターリング^?Burūsu Sutāringu	早川書房^?Hayakawa Shobō Hayakawa Shobo はやかわしょぼうハヤカワショボウ ( ハヤカワ文庫SF^?Hayakawa Bunko SF #762)	4-15-010762-9	¥600^?¥: Japanese yen. ISO code: JPY	473+ [7]	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	奥村靫正^?おくむらゆきまさ Okumura Yukimasa
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology	1988-07-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Ace Books	0-441-53382-5	$3.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xvi+ 239	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
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology	1988-11-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Paladin	0-586-08782-6	£4.95^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	239	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
CyberpunkSF	1989-08-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Meulenhoff (M=SF #268)	90-290-4047-5	ƒ24.50^?ƒ: Dutch guilder. ISO code: NLG in 1810s-1999	303	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	Peter A. Jones
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology	1990-00-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Paladin	0-586-08782-6	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	xiv+ 239	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
Peililasit	1990-00-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Kustannus Oy Jalava (Jalavan scifi-sarja #18)	951-8954-24-0		238	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	Jari Rasi
Mega SF	1990-06-00	ed. Meulenhoff Redactie	Meulenhoff (M=SF #285)	90-290-4468-3		224	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	Peter A. Jones
The Wind from a Burning Woman	1990-10-00	Greg Bear	Questar / Popular Library	0-445-20846-5	$4.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xii+ 240	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.	coll	Jim Burns
Bear's Fantasies	1992-00-00	Greg Bear	Wildside Press / PSFS	1-880448-17-3	$10.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	160	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
Bear's Fantasies	1992-00-00	Greg Bear	Wildside Press / PSFS	1-880448-19-X	$75.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	160	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Bear's Fantasies: Six Stories in Old Paradigms	1992-00-00	Greg Bear	Wildside Press / PSFS	1-880448-18-1	$30.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	160	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Howard Pyle
Op z'n best!: De vijfentwintig mooiste SF en fantasy verhalen	1992-00-00	ed. unknown	Meulenhoff				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
The Venging	1992-02-00	Greg Bear	Legend	0-7126-5050-4	£14.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	269	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Nick Rodgers
The Venging	1992-02-00	Greg Bear	Legend	0-7126-5051-2	£8.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	269	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	Nick Rodgers
The Wind from a Burning Woman	1992-06-17	Greg Bear	Recorded Books and Blackstone Publishing	1-6646-2660-3	$44.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		audio CD^?Compact disc with standard audio tracks	coll
Cyber Fantasy, No. 3	1993-00-00	ed. Alberto Santos Castillo	Alberto Santos		Pta 495^?Pta: Spanish peseta. ISO code: ESP	66	A4^?21 cm by 29.7 cm or 8.3" by 11.7" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines	mag	Rafael González
The Venging	1993-02-00	Greg Bear	Legend	0-09-996450-3	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	290	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.	coll	Nick Rodgers
タンジェント^?Tanjento	1993-11-30	グレッグ・ベア^?Gureggu Bea	早川書房^?Hayakawa Shobō Hayakawa Shobo はやかわしょぼうハヤカワショボウ ( ハヤカワ文庫SF^?Hayakawa Bunko SF #1038)	4-15-011038-7		414	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	大森英樹^?Ōmori Hideki Oomori Hideki Ohmori Hideki Omori Hideki おおもりひでき
Fenix, V5 #1, 1994	1994-00-00	ed. Jaroslaw Grzędowicz^?Jaroslaw Grzedowicz	Radwan				digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Marcin Konczakowski
Mirrorshades: l'antologia della fantascienza cyberpunk	1994-02-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Bompiani (I grandi tascabili Bompiani #323)	88-452-2151-2	Lit 13,000^?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999	312	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	Aurelia Raffo
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology	1994-11-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	HarperCollins (UK)	0-586-08782-6	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	xiv+ 239	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
Almanah Anticipația 1996^?Almanah Anticipatia 1996	1995-00-00	ed. Mihai-Dan Pavelescu	Știință & Tehnică^?Shtiintsa & Tehnicah	973-9236-06-5	Lei 6,000^?Lei: Romanian leu. ISO codes: ROK in 1947-1952, ROL in 1952-2005, RON since 2005	272	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	Walter Riess
Mozart en verres miroirs	1996-09-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Denoël^?Denoel ( Présence du Futur^?Presence du Futur #451)	2-207-50451-4		311	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	Mandy
Urania #1293	1996-09-29	ed. Giuseppe Lippi	Mondadori	1293	Lit 5,900^?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999	284	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.	mag	Marco Patrito
Mirrorshades: Una antología ciberpunk	1998-00-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Siruela (Siruela Bolsillo #41)	84-7844-418-1			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
Mozart en verres miroirs	2001-02-27	ed. Bruce Sterling	Gallimard (Folio SF #49)	2-07-041754-9		426	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	Lisa Powers
The Millennium Philcon: The 59th World Science Fiction Convention and the 2001 Worldcon	2001-08-30	Diana Thayer	The Philadelphia Corporation			176	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.	non-fic	Stephen Youll
The Collected Stories of Greg Bear	2002-09-00	Greg Bear	Tor	0-765-30160-1	$29.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	653	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Drive Communications
The Collected Stories of Greg Bear	2002-11-00	Greg Bear	Tor / SFBC	54199	$14.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	653	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Drive Communications
The Collected Stories of Greg Bear	2003-03-00	Greg Bear	Orb	0-765-30161-X	$17.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	653	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
Mirrorshades	2003-10-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Mondadori (Urania Collezione #9)	9	€4.90^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	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.	anth	Franco Brambilla
Sleepside: The Collected Fantasies of Greg Bear	2004-10-00	Greg Bear	ibooks	0-7434-9805-4	$22.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	viii+ 293	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Cameron Redwine
Sleepside: The Collected Fantasies	2005-11-00	Greg Bear	ibooks	1-59687-144-X	$11.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	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.	coll	M. Postawa
Sleepside: The Collected Fantasies	2008-12-03	Greg Bear	e-reads.com	978-0-7592-2675-3	$16.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	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.	coll
The Wind from a Burning Woman	2010-00-00	Greg Bear	Recorded Books	978-1-4498-4235-2			digital audio player^?Player with a pre-loaded digital file of the audiobook	coll
Like Water for Quarks	2011-00-00	ed. Elton Elliott, Bruce Taylor	MVP Publishing	978-1-61364-144-6	$20.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xxv+ 312	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	Alan M. Clark
Sleepside Stories	2011-12-12	Greg Bear	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-12339-7	£2.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Venging	2012-07-02	Greg Bear	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-12345-8	£2.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Sleepside: The Collected Fantasies	2014-04-29	Greg Bear	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-4976-0778-1	$9.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Far Thoughts and Pale Gods	2016-04-26	Greg Bear	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-5040-2147-0	$15.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	309	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	Greg Bear
Far Thoughts and Pale Gods	2016-04-26	Greg Bear	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-5040-2142-5	$14.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Like Water for Quarks	2019-00-00	ed. Elton Elliott, Bruce Taylor	MVP Publishing	978-1-61364-144-6	$20.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xxiv+ 312	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	Alan M. Clark
The Big Book of Cyberpunk	2023-09-26	ed. Jared Shurin	Vintage Books	978-0-593-46723-7	$32.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xx+ 1116	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	aaronamat , Vitmann , Ociacia
The Big Book of Cyberpunk	2023-09-26	ed. Jared Shurin	Vintage Books	978-0-593-46724-4	$14.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	aaronamat , Vitmann , Ociacia
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology	2023-11-00	ed. Bruce Sterling	Rudy Rucker		$0.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
Audiobook Collection	2024-03-03	Bruce Sterling	MotionAudiobooks		$32.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		audio MP3 DVD^?DVD with mp3-encoded audio tracks	omni
The Big Book of Cyberpunk Volume One	2024-05-02	ed. Jared Shurin	Vintage (UK)	978-1-78487-929-7	£25.00^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	880	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology	date unknown	ed. Bruce Sterling	??? (Israel)				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
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology	date unknown	ed. Bruce Sterling	Ace Books	0-441-53382-5	$3.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xvi+ 239	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
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology	date unknown	ed. Bruce Sterling	Ace Books	0-441-53382-5	$3.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xvi+ 239	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
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology	date unknown	ed. Bruce Sterling	Ace Books	0-441-53382-5	$5.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xvi+ 239	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
The Venging	date unknown	Greg Bear	Legend	0-09-996450-3	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	290	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.	coll	Nick Rodgers
The Venging	date unknown	Greg Bear	Legend	0-09-996450-3	£4.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	290	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.	coll	Nick Rodgers

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