Title: Necessary Evil

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Title: Necessary Evil Title Record # 1566308
Author: Ian Tregillis
Date: 2013-04-30
Type: NOVEL
Series: The Milkweed Triptych
Series Number: 3
Language: English
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Current Tags: alternate history (1), fantasy (1), parallel universe (1) Add Tags

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
2015^ⓘTranslated by Christian Jentzsch	German	Das notwendige Böse

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
16	2014 Locus	Best Fantasy Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Necessary Evil	2013-04-30	Ian Tregillis	Tor	978-0-7653-2152-7	$25.99^?$: US dollar	384	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Chris McGrath
Necessary Evil	2013-04-30	Ian Tregillis	Orbit	978-0-356-50171-0	£8.99^?£: UK pound	472+ [15]	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
Necessary Evil	2013-04-30	Ian Tregillis	Tor	978-1-4299-4302-4	$12.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Necessary Evil	2013-04-30	Ian Tregillis	Orbit	978-1-4055-1455-2	£4.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Necessary Evil	2014-03-04	Ian Tregillis	Tor	978-0-7653-3729-0	$14.99^?$: US dollar	384	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	Chris McGrath
Das notwendige Böse	2015-05-18	Ian Tregillis	Deltus (Deltus Scifi & Fantasy #6)	978-3-940626-23-3	€13.80^?€: Euro	535	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	Dirk Berger
The Milkweed Triptych	2018-10-09	Ian Tregillis	Tor	978-1-250-20672-5	$19.18^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni

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Review by Paul Di Filippo (2013) in The Speculator, (2018)