Title: Great Work of Time Title Record # 1844
Author: John Crowley
Date: 1989-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title 1995ⓘTranslated by Raffaela Ciampa Italian Ingranaggi del tempo 1998ⓘTranslated by Monique Lebailly French La grande œuvre du temps?La grande oeuvre du temps 2021ⓘTranslated by Joachim Körber German Das große Werk der Zeit?Das grosse Werk der Zeit

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win	1990 World Fantasy	Best Novella
Nomination	1990 SF Chronicle	Novella
9	1990 Locus	Best Novella
Nomination	1990 Nebula	Novella
Win (as La grande œuvre du temps?La grande oeuvre du temps )	1999 Imaginaire	Nouvelle étrangère
22 ⓘ19 votes.	2012 Locus Online	20th Century Novella

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Novelty	1989-05-00	John Crowley	Doubleday Foundation	0-385-26171-3	$18.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	227	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Mike Fisher
Novelty	1989-05-00	John Crowley	Doubleday Foundation	0-385-26347-3	$6.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	227	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	Mike Fisher
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection	1990-06-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	St. Martin's Press	0-312-04452-6	$14.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xxvi+ 598	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	Thomas Kidd
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection	1990-06-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	St. Martin's Press	0-312-04451-8	$24.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xxvi+ 598	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Thomas Kidd
Best New SF 4	1990-08-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	Robinson	1-85487-057-2	£6.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	xxvi+ 598	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	Ian Craig
Great Work of Time	1991-08-00	John Crowley	Bantam Spectra (Spectra Special Editions)	0-553-29319-2	$3.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	136	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.	chap	Thomas Canty
Millemondi Primavera 1995	1995-02-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	Mondadori (Millemondi (quarterly) #2)		Lit 9,000?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999	350	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	Marco Patrito
The Science Fiction Century	1997-11-00	ed. David G. Hartwell	Tor	0-312-86338-1	$40.00?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	1005	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	John Harris
The Science Fiction Century	1997-11-00	ed. David G. Hartwell	Tor / BOMC	0-312-86338-1		1005	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	John Harris
La grande œuvre du temps	1998-02-00	John Crowley	Payot (Rivages/Fantasy)	2-7436-0314-3	F135.00?F: French frank. ISO code: FRF in 1960-1999	326	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	Maxfield Parrish
The Science Fiction Century	1998-05-00	ed. David G. Hartwell	Quality Paperback Book Club	0-9658501-3-7	$21.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	1005	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	John Harris
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction: Volume One	2003-04-00	ed. David G. Hartwell	Robinson	1-84119-513-8	£6.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	xix+ 586	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
Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction	2004-05-00	John Crowley	Perennial / HarperCollins	0-380-73106-1	$13.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	338	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
The Science Fiction Century, Volume Two	2006-10-00	ed. David G. Hartwell	Orb	0-765-31492-4	$21.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	508	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
A Science Fiction Omnibus	2007-11-29	ed. Brian Aldiss	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	978-0-14-118892-8	£9.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	592	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	Jim Burns
A Science Fiction Omnibus	2007-11-29	ed. Brian Aldiss	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	978-0-14-191343-8	£7.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
Great Work of Time	2013-07-31	John Crowley	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-12981-8	£2.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	chap
Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction	2013-08-29	John Crowley	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-12985-6	£2.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Lightspeed, May 2018	2018-05-00	ed. John Joseph Adams	Lightspeed Magazine		$3.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	mag	Galen Dara
Das große Werk der Zeit?Das grosse Werk der Zeit	2021-06-07	John Crowley	Wandler	978-3-948825-02-7	€13.90?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	144	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.	chap	Thomas Canty
Great Work of Time	2023-01-01	John Crowley	Subterranean Press	978-1-64524-136-2	$60.00?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	132	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	chap	John Coulthart
Novelty	date unknown	John Crowley	Doubleday Foundation	0-385-26171-3	$18.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	227	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Mike Fisher
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection	date unknown	ed. Gardner Dozois	St. Martin's Press / BOMC	0-312-04452-6		xxvi+ 598	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	Tom Kidd

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Reviews

• Review by Orson Scott Card (1992) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1992
• Review by Baird Searles (1992) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1992
• Review [French] by
  Jean-Daniel Brèque^?Jean-Daniel Breque
  (1998) in Galaxies, #9