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Title: The Shadowed Waters

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Title: The Shadowed Waters Title Record # 49666
Author: C. A. Cador
Date: 1980-04-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: The younger brother of the king of an Irish island, unable to win the hand of the princess with whom he is obsessed, is driven to kill a Silkie in an attempt to raise his status; the resulting punishment of his whole people at the hands of the sea can only be ended by the sacrifice of something which he himself no longer possesses.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1981Translated by Barbara Schönberg
German Die Schatten über den Wassern

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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, April 1980 1980-04-00 ed. Edward L. Ferman Mercury Press, Inc.  
$1.50?$: 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 Alex Schomburg Checkmark
Das Zeitsyndikat 1981-00-00 ed. Manfred Kluge Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3845) 3-453-30774-7
DM 5.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
236
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
Jörg Remé?Joerg Reme
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