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Title: Happy Policeman Title Record # 4666
Author: Patricia Anthony
Date: 1994-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: From the front flap of the Harcourt Brace first edition: "In the small Texas town of Coomey, the Turku deliver VCRs, Clothes, Gasoline. Even Twinkies and Diet Dr. Pepper. It began six years ago, on Bomb Day, when the aliens put up the Line to block out the rest of the world. On all the radio bands there is nothing now but static, and beyond the barrier there may be only radioactive waste. Yet in Coomey life goes on quietly. Until Loretta Harper, the pudgy Mary Kay rep and perennial Homemaker of the Month is found dead in the woods. It's the first murder in six years, and police chief DeWitt Dawson, with a curse, starts his investigation. Did the Torku kill her? Or was it Foster, the town banker turned flower child? Janet - yes even Janet, the police chief's own wife - may be involved. Both lyrical and humorous, Happy Policeman is a story of everyday people trapped in an existential test tube. A story of duty and rebellion. And adultery. While aliens watch - and wait - to see if DeWitt will learn the truth about time, responsibility, and universes that leak."
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Awards

Place Year and Award Category
Finalists 1996 Clarke Best Science Fiction Novel

Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Happy Policeman 1994-09-00 Patricia Anthony Harcourt Brace 0-15-138478-9
$21.95?$: US dollar
282
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Will van Overbeek Checkmark
Happy Policeman 1995-10-00 Patricia Anthony New English Library 0-340-64004-9
£5.99?£: UK pound
282
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 Bob Warner Checkmark
Happy Policeman 1996-04-00 Patricia Anthony Ace Books 0-441-00321-4
$5.99?$: US dollar
274
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 Mark Smollin Checkmark
Happy Policeman 2012-09-27 Patricia Anthony Event Horizon EBooks / Event Horizon Publishing Group  
$5.49?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
novel  
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