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Title: Bestseller Title Record # 47586
Author: Michael Blumlein
Date: 1989-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Synopsis: A man has to resort to selling organs to support his family.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1992Translated by Christian Mähr
German Bestseller
1998Translated by Michał Wroczyński
Polish Bestseller

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
Nomination 1990 Stoker Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Brains of Rats 1989-10-00 Michael Blumlein Scream/Press  
$20.00?$: US dollar
209
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 Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1990 1990-02-00 ed. Edward L. Ferman Mercury Press, Inc.  
$2.00?$: US dollar
164
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 Ron Walotsky Checkmark
The Brains of Rats 1990-09-00 Michael Blumlein Scream/Press 0-910489-28-9
$25.00?$: US dollar
v+
197
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Stephen Elston Checkmark
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection 1991-07-00 ed. Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling St. Martin's Press 0-312-06007-6
$15.95?$: US dollar
liv+
552
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 Thomas Canty Checkmark
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection 1991-07-00 ed. Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling St. Martin's Press 0-312-06005-X
$27.95?$: US dollar
liv+
552
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Thomas Canty Checkmark
The Brains of Rats 1997-03-00 Michael Blumlein Dell 0-440-21373-8
$5.50?$: US dollar
xiv+
224
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 Checkmark
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