Title: Happy Policeman
Title Record # 4666
Author: Patricia Anthony
Date: 1994-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
Reviews
- Review by Faren Miller (1994) in Locus, #402 July 1994
- Review by Howard V. Hendrix (1995) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 1995
- Review by Robert K. J. Killheffer (1995) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1995
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1995) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1995, (1995)
- Review by Chris Gilmore (1996) in Interzone, February 1996