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Title: The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever

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Title: The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever Title Record # 49206
Author: James Tiptree, Jr.
Date: 1982-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Quintana Roo
Language: English
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Current Tags: science fiction (1), waterskiing (1), Maya (1), Yucatan (1), mexico (1), fantasy (1), story within a story (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1984Translated by Rainer Schmidt
German Das Tor zur Vergangenheit
1984Translated by Gilles Questiaux
French L'homme grenouille qui plongea dans l'Eternité
2011Translated by Frank Böhmert
German Der Junge, der auf Wasserskiern in die Ewigkeit fuhr

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
2 1983 Locus Best Short Story
3 1983 Hugo Best Short Story

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1982 1982-10-00 ed. Edward L. Ferman Mercury Press, Inc.  
$1.75?$: US dollar
164
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 David Hardy Checkmark
Mythen der nahen Zukunft 1984-03-00 ed. Ronald M. Hahn Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4062) 3-453-31004-7
DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
267
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.
anth Bruce Pennington Checkmark
Fiction, #356 1984-11-00 ed. Editors of Fiction OPTA  
F32.00?F: French frank
196
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 Jean-Claude Hadi Checkmark
Tales of the Quintana Roo 1986-03-00 James Tiptree, Jr. Arkham House 0-87054-152-8
$11.95?$: US dollar
[111]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Glennray Tutor Checkmark
Quintana Roo 2011-01-03 James Tiptree, Jr. Septime (James Tiptree, Jr.: Sämtliche Erzählungen #5) 978-3-902711-04-5
€18.90?€: Euro
158+
[1]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll
Jürgen Schütz?Juergen Schuetz
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Quintana Roo 2012-00-00 James Tiptree, Jr. Septime (James Tiptree, Jr.: Sämtliche Erzählungen #5) 978-3-902711-04-5
€18.90?€: Euro
158
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll
Jürgen Schütz?Juergen Schuetz
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Tales of the Quintana Roo 2017-00-00 James Tiptree, Jr. Gateway / Orion 978-1-4732-0321-1    
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Checkmark
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