Title: A Short, Sharp Shock
Title Record # 15356
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Date: 1990-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
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Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Date: 1990-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
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- The IASFM version of this novella is shorter than other versions; there are 24 sections/chapters in the magazine version, while there are 30 in the original Ziesing edition. The missing sections correspond to 16-20 and 27 in the Ziesing edition, and there are other continuity changes throughout the text to account for these missing chapters.
- Like the Ziesing text, the Tor Double version has 30 chapters, as does the Bantam Spectra version and the version in the Grafton collection Down and Out in the Year 2000. The magazine version appears to be unique in its shorter nature.
- There are other small differences between the Ziesing text and the other 30-chapter versions which are limited to corrections of typographical errors that were discovered in the first publication.
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Awards
| Place | Year and Award | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1991 Locus | Best Novella |
| 3 | 1991 Hugo | Best Novella |
| Nomination | 1991 SF Chronicle | Novella |
| 7 | 1991 Asimov's Readers' | Best Novella |
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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| A Short, Sharp Shock | 1990-05-00 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Mark V. Ziesing | 0-929480-18-X | $18.00?$: US dollar |
147 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Arnie Fenner |  |
| A Short, Sharp Shock | 1990-05-00 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Mark V. Ziesing | 0-929480-19-8 | $45.00?$: US dollar |
147 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Arnie Fenner | |
| Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 1990 | 1990-11-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | Davis Publications | $3.95?$: US dollar |
324 | 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 | Bob Walters | |
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| A Short, Sharp Shock / The Dragon Masters | 1990-12-00 | ed. Kim Stanley Robinson, Jack Vance | Tor (Tor Double #28) | 0-812-50895-5 | $3.50?$: US dollar |
216 | 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 | Brad Teare | |
| Down and Out in the Year 2000 | 1992-11-00 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Grafton | 0-586-21497-6 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
351 | 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 | Chris Moore | |
| Science Fiction almanah Monolit knjiga 8 | 1993-00-00 |
ed.
Boban Knežević?Boban Knezevic |
Flamarion (Monolit #8) | 544 | 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 |
D. Bob Živković?D. Bob Zivkovic
D. Bob Zhivkovich |
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| Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1994 | 1994-00-00 | ed. Wolfgang Jeschke | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #5100) | 3-453-07264-2 | DM 15.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
576 | 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 | Bob Layzell | |
| A Short, Sharp Shock | 1996-03-00 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Bantam Spectra | 0-553-57461-2 | $5.99?$: US dollar |
180+ [17] |
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. |
chap | Arnie Fenner | |
| A Short, Sharp Shock | 2000-00-00 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Bantam Spectra | 0-553-57461-2 | $6.50?$: US dollar |
180+ [15] |
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. |
chap | Arnie Fenner | |
| A Short, Sharp Shock | 2000-06-00 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Voyager / HarperCollins | 0-00-651078-7 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
180 | 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. |
chap | Bob Warner | |
| A Short, Sharp Shock | 2013-07-00 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Roadswell Editions | 978-1-938263-06-4 | $3.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
chap | Robert Rodi | |
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| A Short, Sharp Shock | 2015-05-00 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Anti-Oedipus Press | 978-0-9892391-9-6 | $13.95?$: US dollar |
xvii+ 130+ [3] |
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. |
chap | Ivan Titor | |
| A Short, Sharp Shock | 2015-05-00 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Anti-Oedipus Press | 978-0-9905733-4-0 | $13.95?$: US dollar |
154 | 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. |
chap | |
Reviews
- Review by Mark R. Kelly (1990) in Locus, #355 August 1990
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1990) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1990
- Review by Faren Miller (1990) in Locus, #355 August 1990
- Review by Paul Kincaid (1990) in Vector 158
- Review by uncredited (1990) in Quantum, Fall 1990/Winter 1991
- Review [French] by Pascal J. Thomas (1991) in Yellow Submarine, #87
- Review by Candas Jane Dorsey (1991) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 1991, (1991)
- Review by Tanya Brown (2000) in Vector 214
- Review by Peter Young (2002) in Zoo Nation, #2: Kitchen Appliances in Zero-G