Title: Distress Title Record # 3349
Author: Greg Egan
Date: 1995-12-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Subjective Cosmology
Series Number: 3
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Language: English
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Translated Serializations

Year Language Title 1997ⓘTranslated by Mihai-Dan Pavelescu Romanian Distres 1997ⓘTranslated by Bernard Sigaud French L'énigme de l'univers?L'enigme de l'univers 1998 Hebrew Metsuḳah?Metsukah 1999ⓘTranslated by Bernhard Kempen German Qual 2000ⓘTranslated by Adela Ibáñez. Spanish El instante Aleph 2003ⓘTranslated by Paweł Wieczorek Polish Stan wyczerpania 2004ⓘTranslated by Petr Kotrle Czech Uzkost 2004ⓘTranslated by 山岸真 (Yamagishi Makoto) Japanese 万物理論?ばんぶつりろん Banbutsu Riron [as by グレッグ・イーガン?Gureggu Iigan Gureggu Īgan ]

Year Language Title 2002 Italian Distress (Complete Novel)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win	1995 Aurealis	SF Novel
Nominations Below Cutoff	1996 Tiptree / Otherwise	Gender-bending SF
19	1997 Locus	Best SF Novel
Win (as Qual)	2000 Kurd Lasswitz Prize	Bestes ausländisches Werk
2 (as El instante Aleph)	2001 Premio Ignotus	Mejor novela extranjera - Best Foreign Novel
Win (as 万物理論?ばんぶつりろん Banbutsu Riron )	2005 Seiun	Best Translated Long Story

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Distress	1995-12-00	Greg Egan	Millennium	1-85798-286-X	£16.99?£: UK pound	342	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Distress	1995-12-00	Greg Egan	Millennium	1-85798-285-1	£9.99?£: UK pound	343	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	Image Bank
Distress	1996-12-00	Greg Egan	Phoenix	1-85799-484-1	£5.99?£: UK pound	343	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	Image Bank
Distress	1997-05-00	Greg Egan	HarperPrism	0-06-105264-7	$21.00?$: US dollar	342	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Chris Mooney (I) , Michael Simpson
Distress	1997-07-00	Greg Egan	HarperPrism / SFBC	16059	$9.98?$: US dollar	342	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Chris Mooney (I) , Michael Simpson
Distress	1998-02-00	Greg Egan	HarperPrism	0-06-105727-4	$6.50?$: US dollar	454	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	Chris Mooney (I) , Michael Simpson
Distress	2008-02-00	Greg Egan	Gollancz	978-0-575-08173-4	£7.99?£: UK pound	424	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
Distress	2010-12-30	Greg Egan	Gollancz	978-0-575-10543-0	£4.99?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Distress	2013-07-28	Greg Egan	Greg Egan	978-1-922240-10-1	$2.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Greg Egan
Distress	2015-01-06	Greg Egan	Night Shade Books	978-1-59780-541-4	$15.99?$: US dollar	385	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	Greg Egan
Distress	date unknown	Greg Egan	HarperPrism	0-06-105727-4	$6.50?$: US dollar	454	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	Chris Mooney (I) , Michael Simpson
Distress	date unknown	Greg Egan	HarperPrism	0-06-105727-4	$6.50?$: US dollar	454	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	Chris Mooney (I) , Michael Simpson

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Reviews

• Review by Russell Letson (1995) in Locus, #419 December 1995
• Review by Chris Dickinson (1996) in Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Summer 1996
• Review by Gary S. Dalkin (1996) in Vector 187
• Review by Chris Gilmore (1996) in Interzone, March 1996
• Review by Gary K. Wolfe (1996) in Locus, #423 April 1996
• Review by Bill Congreve (1996) in Aurealis, #17
• Review by Russell Blackford (1996) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 1996
• Review by Kathleen Ann Goonan (1996) in Science Fiction Eye, #14, Spring 1996
• Review by K. V. Bailey (1996) in Foundation, #67 Summer 1996
• Review by Don D'Ammassa (1997) in Science Fiction Chronicle, April/May 1997
• Review by Paul Di Filippo (1997) in Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1997
• Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1997) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1997
• Review by Robert K. J. Killheffer (1997) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1997
• Review by Michael M. Levy (1997) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1997
• Review [French] by
  Jean-Daniel Brèque^?Jean-Daniel Breque
  (1997) in Galaxies, #7
• Review by Susan Dunman (1997) in Science Fiction Weekly, 16 Jun 1997
• Review by Stephen Dedman (1997) in Nova Express, Summer 1997
• Review by Mark L. Olson (1998) in Aboriginal Science Fiction, Spring 1998
• Review [German] by Birgit Will (1999) in Alien Contact, Nummer 35
• Review [French] by Claude Ecken (2001) in Galaxies, #22
• Review by Colin Steele (2001) in SF Commentary, #77
• Review by Bruce Gillespie (2010) in SF Commentary, #80A
• Review [French] by Erwann Perchoc (2017) in Bifrost, #88