Title: Coils
Title Record # 2488
Authors: Fred Saberhagen and Roger Zelazny
Date: 1982-05-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Authors: Fred Saberhagen and Roger Zelazny
Date: 1982-05-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: A man discovers that his memories of childhood are false, and when he begins to investigate his psychiatrist is murdered and his girlfriend is kidnapped. As his actual past begins to return to his memory, he realizes that he has the ability to mentally connect to computer circuitry, an ability he used to use for illegal advantage for the corporation which employed him, along with a small group of others with paranormal powers. He concludes that the corporation is behind all this and sets out to find and rescue his girlfriend while the corporation pursues him.
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Awards
| Place | Year and Award | Category |
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| 20 | 1983 Locus | Best SF Novel |
Publications
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Coils | 1982-05-00 | Fred Saberhagen, Roger Zelazny | Wallaby / Simon & Schuster | 0-671-44915-X | $7.95?$: US dollar |
250 | 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 | Howard Chaykin |  |
| Coils | 1982-07-00 | Fred Saberhagen, Roger Zelazny | Nelson Doubleday / SFBC | 5139 | $2.98?$: US dollar |
183 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Ron Miller | |
| Coils | 1982-11-00 | Fred Saberhagen, Roger Zelazny | Tor | 0-523-48539-5 | $2.95?$: US dollar |
250 | 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 | Howard Chaykin | |
| Coils | 1984-12-00 | Fred Saberhagen, Roger Zelazny | Penguin Books | 0-14-007342-6 | £1.95?£: UK pound |
187 | 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 Elson | |
| Urania #1029 | 1986-08-17 | ed. Gianni Montanari | Mondadori | 1029 | Lit 3,000?Lit: Italian lira |
140 | 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 | Karel Thole | |
| Die Hirnspirale | 1987-02-00 | Fred Saberhagen, Roger Zelazny | Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe (Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Bestseller #22099) |
3-404-22099-4 | DM 7.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
223 | 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 | John Rush | |
| Coils | 1988-06-00 | Fred Saberhagen, Roger Zelazny | Tor | 0-812-55877-4 | $3.50?$: US dollar |
250 | 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 | David Lee Anderson | |
| Coils | 1999-01-00 | Fred Saberhagen, Roger Zelazny | Tor | 0-812-55877-4 | $5.99?$: US dollar |
250 | 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 | Howard Chaykin | |
| Engrenages | 2002-06-03 | Fred Saberhagen, Roger Zelazny | Gallimard (Folio SF #102) | 2-07-042404-9 | 280 | 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. |
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Reviews
- Review by Faren Miller (1982) in Locus, #255 April 1982
- Review by Patricia Hernlund (1982) in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #6, July-August 1982
- Review by Roger C. Schlobin (1982) in Fantasy Newsletter, #52 October 1982
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1983) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1983
- Review [French] by Pascal Patoz (2002) in Galaxies, #26