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Title: Looking for Kelly Dahl Title Record # 44408
Author: Dan Simmons
Date: 1995-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
Synopsis: Roland Jakes, high-school teacher, finds himself trapped in the bizarre alternate realities constructed by former student Kelly Dahl. Due to Dahl's poor education, the realities are largely inconsistent, and Roland passes his time reflecting on life, critiquing her realities, and hunting her with a high-powered rifle.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1997Translated by Jean-Daniel Brèque
French
À la recherche de Kelly Dahl?A la recherche de Kelly Dahl
1998
  • Translated by Goran Skrobonja
Serbian U potrazi za Keli Dal [as by Den Simons]
1998Translated by 嶋田洋一(Shimada Yoh-ichi)
Japanese
ケリー・ダールを探して?Kerī Dāru wo Sagashite
Kerii Daaru wo Sagashite
Kerī Dāru o Sagashite
Kerii Daaru o Sagashite
[as by ]
2004Translated by Jürgen Langowski.
German Auf der Suche nach Kelly Dahl

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
15 1996 Locus Best Novella
Nomination (as
À la recherche de Kelly Dahl?A la recherche de Kelly Dahl
)
1998 Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, and Science Fiction 1995-07-00 ed. Steve Rasnic Tem Ocean View Books 0-938075-45-4
$29.95?$: US dollar
499
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Charles Ragland Bunnell  
Omni Online, September 1995 1995-09-00 ed. Ellen Datlow        
webzine?Used for Internet-based periodical publications which are otherwise not downloadable as an "ebook".
mag  
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection 1996-06-00 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Press 0-312-14451-2
$29.95?$: US dollar
xlviii+
592
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Bob Eggleton Checkmark
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection 1996-06-00 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Press 0-312-14452-0
$17.95?$: US dollar
xlvii+
592
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 Bob Eggleton Checkmark
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection 1996-09-00 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Press / SFBC 13595
$14.98?$: US dollar
lxiii+
704
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Bob Eggleton Checkmark
The Best New Science Fiction: 9th Annual Collection 1996-10-00 ed. Gardner Dozois Robinson 1-85487-492-6
£7.99?£: UK pound
lxiv+
687
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 Phil Marritt  
Worlds Enough and Time 2002-03-00 Dan Simmons Subterranean Press 1-931081-54-9
$40.00?$: US dollar
243
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Desert Isle Design Checkmark
Worlds Enough and Time 2002-03-00 Dan Simmons Subterranean Press 1-931081-55-7
$100.00?$: US dollar
243
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Worlds Enough and Time 2002-03-00 Dan Simmons Subterranean Press 1-931081-55-7
$400.00?$: US dollar
243
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction 2002-12-00 Dan Simmons Eos / HarperCollins 0-06-050604-0
$14.95?$: US dollar
262
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 Checkmark
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