Title: Hardware Scenario G-49
Title Record # 59324
Author: James Alan Gardner
Date: 1991-12-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: James Alan Gardner
Date: 1991-12-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First published in Amazing Stories, December 1991.
Synopsis: In a future world where humans are physically maintained in an unconscious state by benevolent robots while they live lives in virtual reality, a contented virtual hardware store owner and a virtual goddess Diana are chosen to reproduce, and decide that they should have a loving virtual relationship for the sake of the child.
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Amazing Stories, December 1991 | 1991-12-00 | ed. Kim Mohan | TSR | $3.95?$: US dollar |
100 | bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding. |
mag | Nicholas Jainschigg | ||
More Amazing Stories | 1998-02-00 | ed. Kim Mohan | Tor | 0-312-86473-6 | $24.95?$: US dollar |
320 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Bob Eggleton | |
More Amazing Stories | 2000-12-00 | ed. Kim Mohan | Tor | 0-312-87437-5 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
320 | 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 | Bob Eggleton | |
Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories | 2005-05-10 | James Alan Gardner | Eos / HarperCollins | 0-06-008770-6 | $15.95?$: US dollar |
xix+ 368 |
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 | Fred Gambino |