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Title: Footvote Title Record # 194459
Author: Peter F. Hamilton
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: In the Manhattan in Reverse introduction, Hamilton notes "I also took the opportunity to revise 'Footvote', bringing it slightly more up to date": The original opens with the date 2003 and "It was the day Tony Blair was due to give evidence to the Hutton enquiry", the revision has 2010, Gordon Brown and "to appear before the Iraq Enquiry again." Many online retailers of the standalone story share erroneous description "Taken from [...] collection Manhattan in Reverse, Footvote is a thrilling short story featuring Paulo Myo of the Commonwealth Saga." While that also opens with discovery of wormhole transportation, the continuity is completely different; Myo appears in the title novella, "written exclusively for this collection."
Synopsis: Day after tomorrow, the UK is "going to rack and ruin" due to politicians' ineptness, well-deserved enmity of the EU but most of all, mass emigration by a wormhole to another world, whose inventor declared disquietingly draconic rules to prevent repetition of Earth's faults. A divorced mother has to make a hard choice...
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Translations
Year Language Title
2008Translated by Silviu Genescu and/or Mihai-Dan Pavelescu and/or Antuza Genescu and/or Ana-Veronica Mircea
Romanian
Alegere profitabilă?Alegere profitabila
2012Translated by Emmanuel Tollé
French
Un électorat qui marche?Un electorat qui marche
2013Translated by Michael Neuhaus
German Abstimmung mit den Füßen

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Postscripts, #1 Spring 2004-00-00 ed. Peter Crowther PS Publishing 1-904619-20-7
£6.00?£: UK pound
178
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 Edward Miller  
Postscripts, Spring 2004 2004-00-00 ed. Peter Crowther PS Publishing 1-904619-20-7
£50.00?£: UK pound
178
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
mag Edward Miller  
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection 2005-07-00 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Griffin / SFBC 1188574
$14.99?$: US dollar
lii+
822
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Stephan Martiniere  
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection 2005-07-00 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Griffin 0-312-33659-4
$35.00?$: US dollar
xl+
663
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Stephan Martiniere Checkmark
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection 2005-07-00 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Griffin 0-312-33660-8
$19.95?$: US dollar
xl+
663
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 Stephan Martiniere Checkmark
The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection 2005-09-00 ed. Gardner Dozois Robinson 1-84529-116-6
£9.99?£: UK pound
xlv+
722
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 Year's Best Science Fiction (vol. IV) 2008-00-00 ed. Gardner Dozois Editura Nemira (Nautilus) 978-973-143-221-2   732
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 Mammoth Book of The Best of The Best New SF 2008-03-00 ed. Gardner Dozois Robinson 978-1-84529-424-3
£9.99?£: UK pound
xix+
778
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 Mammoth Book of The Best of The Best New SF 2008-03-27 ed. Gardner Dozois Robinson 978-1-84901-540-0
£9.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth  
Postscripts Sampler 2009-00-00 ed. Peter Crowther PS Publishing     111
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 Tomislav Tikulin Checkmark
Footvote 2011-09-16 Peter F. Hamilton Tor UK 978-1-4472-1191-4
£0.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
chap  
Manhattan in Reverse 2011-10-00 Peter F. Hamilton Macmillan UK 978-0-230-75030-2
£17.99?£: UK pound
[10]+
260
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Steve Stone Checkmark
Manhattan in Reverse 2011-10-00 Peter F. Hamilton Macmillan UK 978-0-230-75031-9
£12.99?£: UK pound
[10]+
260
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 Steve Stone Checkmark
Manhattan in Reverse 2011-10-07 Peter F. Hamilton Tor UK 978-0-230-76171-1
£5.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Manhattan in Reverse 2012-02-28 Peter F. Hamilton Del Rey / Ballantine 978-0-345-52807-0
$4.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection 2012-03-01 ed. Gardner Dozois Robinson 978-1-78033-721-0
£2.49?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth Checkmark
Manhattan in Reverse 2012-05-10 Peter F. Hamilton Pan Books 978-0-330-52220-5
£7.99?£: UK pound
260
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 Steve Stone Checkmark
Manhattan in Reverse 2012-08-00 Peter F. Hamilton Subterranean Press 978-1-59606-440-9
$40.00?$: US dollar
271
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Ron Miller Checkmark
Manhattan à l'envers 2012-11-23 Peter F. Hamilton Bragelonne 978-2-35294-612-0
€22.00?€: Euro
360
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 Manchu  
Die Dämonenfalle 2013-04-00 Peter F. Hamilton
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(
Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction & Fantasy?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction & Fantasy
#20709)
978-3-404-20709-1
€12.00?€: Euro
350
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 Arndt Drechsler Checkmark
Manhattan à l'envers?Manhattan a l'envers
2017-06-00 Peter F. Hamilton Milady     286
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 Manchu  
Manhattan in Reverse 2019-07-25 Peter F. Hamilton Pan Books 978-1-5098-6871-1
£8.99?£: UK pound
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.
coll  
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