Title: The Impossible Bird

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Title: The Impossible Bird Title Record # 22284
Author: Patrick O'Leary
Date: 2002-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Translations

Year	Language	Title
2007^ⓘTranslated by Nathalie Mège	French	L'oiseau impossible

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
19	2003 Locus	Best SF Novel
Preliminary Nominees	2003 Nebula	Novel
Nomination (as L'oiseau impossible)	2009 Imaginaire	Roman étranger

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Impossible Bird	2002-01-00	Patrick O'Leary	Tor	0-765-30337-X	$25.95^?$: US dollar	366	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Gregory Manchess
The Impossible Bird	2003-03-00	Patrick O'Leary	Tor	0-765-30339-6	$14.95^?$: US dollar	366	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	Gregory Manchess
L'oiseau impossible	2007-09-05	Patrick O'Leary	Calmann-Lévy (Interstices)	978-2-7021-3827-4	€20.00^?€: Euro	367	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	Néjib Belhadj Kacem

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Reviews

Review by Faren Miller (2001) in Locus, #491 December 2001
Review by Don D'Ammassa (2001) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #219 December 2001
Review by Gary K. Wolfe (2001) in Locus, #491 December 2001
Review by Bill Sheehan (2002) in Locus, #493 February 2002
Review by John Clute (2002) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 2002 , reprinted in:
Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003 (2003)
Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003 (2016)
Review by Steve Jeffery (2002) in Vector 224
Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (2002) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2002
Review by Bruce Gillespie (2010) in SF Commentary, #80A