Title: The Birthgrave

Title: The Birthgrave Title Record # 7691
Author: Tanith Lee
Date: 1975-06-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Birthgrave
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: The place: the heart of a rumbling volcano. The person: a woman awakening from a deathlike sleep. The time: unknown, far from today. The problem: her identity. Who is she? What are her powers? Where is her lover and who or what is he? What is her relation to the world in which she finds herself... slave girl, goddess, nomad, or warrior? (from the back cover of the DAW Books first edition)

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1978^ⓘTranslated by Pon Ruiter	Dutch	Het geboortegraf
1978^ⓘTranslated by Roberta Rambelli	Italian	Nata dal vulcano
1979	German	Im Herzen des Vulkans
1979^ⓘTranslated by Francis Max	French	Le réveil du volcan^?Le reveil du volcan
1984^ⓘTranslated by Michel Darroux & Bernadette Emerich.	French	La déesse voilée
1996^ⓘTranslated by Viviana Viviani	Italian	Nata dal vulcano
2006^ⓘTranslated by Mika Renvall	Finnish	Synnyinhauta

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
20	1976 Locus	Best SF Novel
Nomination	1976 Nebula	Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Birthgrave	1975-06-00	Tanith Lee	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #154)	0-87997-177-0 / UW1177	$1.50^?$: US dollar	408	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	George Barr
The Birthgrave	1975-06-00	Tanith Lee	DAW Books / New American Library of Canada	UW1177	C$1.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	408	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	George Barr
The Birthgrave	1977-09-00	Tanith Lee	Orbit	0-86007-942-2	£1.25^?£: UK pound	408	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	Gino D'Achille
The Birthgrave	1979-00-00	Tanith Lee	Orbit	0-86007-942-2	£1.25^?£: UK pound	408	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	Peter Jones
The Birthgrave	1981-12-00	Tanith Lee	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #463)	0-87997-672-1	$2.95^?$: US dollar	408	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	Ken W. Kelly
The Birthgrave	1982-00-00	Tanith Lee	DAW Books	0-87997-776-0	$3.50^?$: US dollar	408	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	Ken W. Kelly
The Birthgrave	1985-00-00	Tanith Lee	Orbit	0-86007-942-2	£2.95^?£: UK pound	408	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	Peter Jones
The Birthgrave	1986-00-00	Tanith Lee	DAW Books	0-88677-127-7	$3.95^?$: US dollar	408	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	Ken W. Kelly
The Birthgrave	1986-01-00	Tanith Lee	DAW Books	0-88677-127-7	$3.95^?$: US dollar	408	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	Ken W. Kelly
The Birthgrave	2010-11-00	Tanith Lee	TaLeKa	978-1-60762-079-2	$39.95^?$: US dollar	554	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	John Kaiine
The Birthgrave	2010-11-10	Tanith Lee	TaLeKa	978-1-60762-080-8	$21.95^?$: US dollar	551	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	John Kaiine
The Birthgrave	2015-05-29	Tanith Lee	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-12083-9	£2.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Birthgrave	2015-06-02	Tanith Lee	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #154)	978-0-7564-1105-3	$7.99^?$: US dollar	452	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	Bastien Lecouffe Deharme
The Birthgrave	2015-06-02	Tanith Lee	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #154)	978-0-698-40453-3	$5.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Bastien Lecouffe Deharme
The Birthgrave	date unknown	Tanith Lee	DAW Books	0-87997-177-0 / UW1177	$1.50^?$: US dollar	408	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	George Barr
The Birthgrave	date unknown	Tanith Lee	DAW Books	0-87997-776-0	$3.50^?$: US dollar	408	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	Ken W. Kelly
The Birthgrave	date unknown	Tanith Lee	DAW Books / New American Library of Canada	0-87997-776-0	C$3.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	408	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	Ken W. Kelly

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Reviews

Review by L. J. Knapp (1975) in The Science Fiction Review (Monthly), August 1975
Review by Lester del Rey (1975) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1975
Review by James K. Burk (1975) in Delap's F & SF Review, September 1975
Review by Thomas Murn (1975) in Janus, Vol. 1, #1 Sept. 1975
Review by Thomas A. Easton (1975) in Locus, #179 September 27, 1975
Review by Lin Carter (1976) in The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 2
Review by Robin Marcus (1977) in Paperback Parlour, June 1977
Review by Joan Gordon (1986) in Fantasy Review, April 1986