Title: The Sparrow Title Record # 7977
Author: Mary Doria Russell
Date: 1996-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Sparrow
Series Number: 1
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Language: English
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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title 1999ⓘTranslated by Tom van Son and Mariëlla Snel Dutch De Gevangene 1999ⓘ Translated by Zvezdana Šelmić Serbian Vrabac [as by Meri Dorija Rasel] 2000ⓘTranslated by Gisela Stege German Sperling 2013ⓘTranslated by Bogdan Perdivară Romanian Pasărea Domnului?Pasarea Domnului

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win	1996 Tiptree / Otherwise	Gender-bending SF
Win	1997 BSFA	Best Novel
12	1997 Locus	Best First Novel
3	1997 Campbell Memorial	Best Science Fiction Novel
1	1998 Clarke	Best Science Fiction Novel
Win (as Sperling)	2001 Kurd Lasswitz Prize	Bestes ausländisches Werk

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
The Sparrow	1996-10-00	Mary Doria Russell	Villard / Random House	0-679-45150-1	$23.00?$: US dollar	408	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Giotto di Bondone
The Sparrow	1997-00-00	Mary Doria Russell	Black Swan	0-552-99777-3	£6.99?£: UK pound	506	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	A. Morton
The Sparrow	1997-00-00	Mary Doria Russell	Black Swan	0-552-99777-3	£6.99?£: UK pound	505+ [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.	novel	A. Morton
The Sparrow	1997-10-00	Mary Doria Russell	Fawcett Columbine / Ballantine	0-449-91255-8	$12.00?$: US dollar	408+	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	Giotto di Bondone
The Sparrow	1998-00-00	Mary Doria Russell	Black Swan	0-552-99777-3	£6.99?£: UK pound	505+ [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.	novel	A. Morton
De Gevangene	1999-00-00	Mary Doria Russell	Luitingh-Sijthoff	90-245-2191-2		430	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	A. Morton
Vrabac	1999-00-00	Meri Dorija Rasel	Polaris Beograd (SF biblioteka Polaris)			342	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	Giotto
Sperling	2000-00-00	Mary Doria Russell	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #6336)	3-453-16180-7	€10.95?€: Euro	652	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	doManski
Sperling	2000-01-00	Mary Doria Russell	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #6336)	3-453-16180-7	DM 19.90?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	650	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	doManski
Sperling	2004-00-00	Mary Doria Russell	Heyne (Meisterwerke der Science Fiction)	3-453-87552-4	€9.00?€: Euro	663	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 Sparrow	2004-11-00	Mary Doria Russell	Fawcett / Ballantine	0-449-91255-8	$14.95?$: US dollar	408	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	Giotto di Bondone
The Sparrow	2004-12-00	Mary Doria Russell	Ballantine Books	0-449-91255-8	$14.95?$: US dollar	408	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	Giotto di Bondone
The Sparrow	2008-00-00	Mary Doria Russell	Ballantine Books	978-0-449-91255-3	$15.00?$: US dollar	431	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	Giotto di Bondone
The Sparrow	2008-05-27	Mary Doria Russell	Ballantine Books	978-0-345-51088-4	$11.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Sparrow	2008-07-08	Mary Doria Russell	Brilliance Audio	978-1-4233-5632-5			digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	novel	Giotto
The Sparrow	2010-02-23	Mary Doria Russell	Transworld Digital	978-1-4070-5702-6	£5.99?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Pasărea Domnului?Pasarea Domnului	2013-00-00	Mary Doria Russell	Editura Trei (Epsilon Science Fiction)	978-973-707-708-0		616	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
The Sparrow	date unknown	Mary Doria Russell	Fawcett Columbine / Ballantine	0-449-91255-8	$12.00?$: US dollar	408+ [15]	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	Giotto di Bondone
The Sparrow	date unknown	Mary Doria Russell	Fawcett / Ballantine	0-449-91255-8	$13.95?$: US dollar	405	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	Giotto di Bondone
The Sparrow	date unknown	Mary Doria Russell	Fawcett Columbine / Ballantine	0-449-91255-8	$12.00?$: US dollar	408+ [15]	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	Giotto di Bondone
The Sparrow	date unknown	Mary Doria Russell	Black Swan	978-0-552-99777-5	£9.99?£: UK pound	505	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	A. Morton
The Sparrow	date unknown	Mary Doria Russell	Brilliance Audio	978-1-4233-5632-5			digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	novel	Giotto

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Reviews

• Review by Lisa Goldstein (1996) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1996
• Review by Brian Stableford (1997) in Interzone, #116 February 1997 , reprinted in:
•     Exotic Encounters: Selected Reviews (2010)
• Review by uncredited (1997) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1997
• Review by Gary K. Wolfe (1997) in Locus, #435 April 1997
• Review by Paul Kincaid (1997) in Vector 196
• Review by Russell Letson (1997) in Locus, #442 November 1997
• Review by Mark L. Olson (1998) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, Spring 1998
• Review by Michelle West (1998) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1998
• Review by Bryan Milner (1998) in Foundation, Summer 1998
• Review by Kristen Pederson (1998) in SF Site, Mid-August 1998, (1998)
• Review [French] by
  Éric Vial^?Eric Vial
  (2001) in Galaxies, #21
• Review by Bruce Gillespie (2010) in SF Commentary, #80A
• Review by Jason Sizemore (2011) in Apex Magazine, August 2011
• Review by Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo (2012) in Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 , reprinted in:
•     Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 (2012)
• Review by Alan Ziebarth (2013) in Argentus, #13
• Review by Diana What (2017) in Anathema, December 2017