Title: Hatrack River
Title Record # 41334
Author: Orson Scott Card
Date: 1986-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: The Alvin Maker Saga
Language: English
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Author: Orson Scott Card
Date: 1986-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: The Alvin Maker Saga
Language: English
Note: The 1989 Legend edition of Seventh Son states that the first five chapters of the novel first appeared as this novelette.
Synopsis: When a family traveling through becomes trapped in a river as the mother is about to give birth, a young girl with second sight is able to help.
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Awards
| Place | Year and Award | Category |
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| Win | 1987 World Fantasy | Best Novella |
| 2 | 1987 Locus | Best Novelette |
| Nomination | 1987 SF Chronicle | Novelette |
| 3 | 1987 Asimov's Readers' | Best Novelette |
| 4 | 1987 Hugo | Best Novelette |
| Nomination | 1987 Nebula | Novelette |
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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| Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1986 | 1986-08-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | Davis Publications | $2.00?$: US dollar |
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 | Terry Lee |  |
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| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection | 1987-05-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | St. Martin's Press | 0-312-00710-8 | $11.95?$: US dollar |
xxi+ 602 |
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 | Alan Gutierrez | |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection | 1987-05-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | St. Martin's Press | 0-312-00709-4 | $19.95?$: US dollar |
xxi+ 602 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Alan Gutierrez | |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction | 1987-08-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | Robinson | 0-948164-31-X | £4.95?£: UK pound |
615 | 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 | |
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| The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction | 1987-08-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | Robinson | 0-948164-50-6 | £10.95?£: UK pound |
615 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
| Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year #16 | 1987-09-00 | ed. Terry Carr | Tor | 0-312-93025-9 | $17.95?$: US dollar |
xi+ 402 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Peter Gudynas | |
| Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazin 30. Folge | 1987-11-00 | ed. Friedel Wahren | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4446) | 3-453-00962-2 | DM 9.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
314+ [1] |
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 | Karel Thole | |
| Best SF of the Year 16 | 1987-12-00 | ed. Terry Carr | Gollancz | 0-575-04084-X | £11.95?£: UK pound |
xi+ 388 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Jim Burns | |
| Best SF of the Year 16 | 1987-12-00 | ed. Terry Carr | Gollancz | 0-575-04085-8 | £3.95?£: UK pound |
xi+ 388 |
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 | Jim Burns | |
S-Fマガジン 1988年11月号, #371?Esu-Efu Magajin - 1988-nen 11-gatsu-gō, #371 Esu-Efu Magajin - 1988-nen 11-gatsu-gou, #371 S-F Magajin - 1988-nen 11-gatsu-gō, #371 S-F Magajin - 1988-nen 11-gatsu-gou, #371 |
1988-11-00 |
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今岡清?いまおかきよし Imaoka Kiyoshi |
早川書房?Hayakawa Shobō Hayakawa Shobo はやかわしょぼう ハヤカワショボウ |
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. |
mag | |||||
| The American Fantasy Tradition | 2002-09-00 | ed. Brian M. Thomsen | Tor | 0-765-30152-0 | $27.95?$: US dollar |
604 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |
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| The American Fantasy Tradition | 2003-09-00 | ed. Brian M. Thomsen | Tor | 0-765-30456-2 | $17.95?$: US dollar |
604 | 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 | |
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| New Magics: An Anthology of Today's Fantasy | 2004-01-00 | ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden | Tor | 0-765-30015-X | $19.95?$: US dollar |
256 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Daniel Dos Santos | |
| New Magics: An Anthology of Today's Fantasy | 2005-01-00 | ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden | Tor Teen | 0-765-34003-8 | $6.99?$: US dollar |
256 | 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 | Daniel Dos Santos | |
| Novel Ideas: Fantasy | 2006-03-00 | ed. Brian M. Thomsen | DAW Books (DAW Collectors #1358) | 0-7564-0309-X | $7.50?$: US dollar |
312 | 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 | |