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Title: The Skin Trade

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Title: The Skin Trade Title Record # 48331
Author: George R. R. Martin
Date: 1988-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
User Rating: 8.00 (1 vote) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
2001 Skin Trade
Year Language Title
1990ⓘTranslated by Joachim Körber
 German Maskerade
1991ⓘTranslated by Kari Salminen
 Finnish Nahanvaihtajat
1992ⓘ<ul><li>Translated by Goran Skrobonja </ul>
 Serbian Trgovina ko˛om
2012ⓘTranslated by Annaļg Housenard
 French Skin trade
2014ⓘ Translated by Joachim Körber First published as <i>Maskerade</i> in 1990, translation revised by Joachim Körber in 2014.
 German In der Haut des Wolfes
2017 Portuguese O troca-peles

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
Nomination 1988 Stoker Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Win 1989 World Fantasy Best Novella
7 1989 Locus Best Novella

Publications

Displaying all variants and translations • Do not display translations • Do not display variants or translations

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Night Visions 5 1988-05-00 ed. Douglas E. Winter Dark Harvest 0-913165-31-X
$75.00?$: US dollar
 274
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Ron Lindahn , Val Lakey Lindahn Checkmark
Night Visions 5 1988-05-00 ed. Douglas E. Winter Dark Harvest 0-913165-32-8
$22.00?$: US dollar
 274
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Ron Lindahn , Val Lakey Lindahn Checkmark
Dark Visions 1989-08-10 ed. Douglas E. Winter Gollancz 0-575-04585-X
£11.95?£: UK pound
 264
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth  
Nachtvisionen: Sieben beklemmende Geschichten 1990-00-00 ed. Douglas E. Winter Heyne (Heyne Allgemeine Reihe #8098) 3-453-04218-2
DM 9.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
 411
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 J. K. Potter Checkmark
Nachtvisionen: Sieben beklemmende Geschichten 1990-00-00 ed. Douglas E. Winter Heyne (Heyne Allgemeine Reihe #8098) 3-453-04218-2
DM 9.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
 411
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 J. K. Potter  
The Skin Trade 1990-03-00 ed. uncredited Berkley Books 0-425-12003-1
$4.95?$: US dollar
 329
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 Checkmark
Dark Visions 1990-07-00 ed. Douglas E. Winter Gollancz 0-575-04711-9
£3.99?£: UK pound
 381
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 Jean-Franēois Podevin  
Nachtvisionen: Sieben beklemmende Geschichten 1991-00-00 ed. Douglas E. Winter Heyne (Heyne Allgemeine Reihe #8098) 3-453-04218-2
DM 9.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
 411
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 J. K. Potter Checkmark
Kauhujen kirja 1991-00-00 ed. Douglas E. Winter Book Studio 951-611-394-X FIM 49.00 320
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 Kari T. Leppänen Checkmark
Science Fiction almanah Monolit knjiga 7 1992-00-00 ed.
Boban Kne˛ević?Boban Knezevic
 Flamarion (Monolit #7)     527
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
D. Bob ˇivković?D. Bob Zivkovic
D. Bob Zhivkovich
 Checkmark
Dark Visions 1997-00-00 ed. Douglas E. Winter Vista 0-575-60154-X
£5.99?£: UK pound
 381
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 Jean-Franēois Podevin Checkmark
Dark Visions 2000-08-00 ed. Douglas E. Winter Indigo 0-575-40290-3
£6.99?£: UK pound
 381
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  
Quartet: Four Tales from the Crossroads 2001-00-00 George R. R. Martin NESFA Press 1-886778-35-3
$15.00?$: US dollar
 448
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  
Quartet: Four Tales from the Crossroads 2001-02-00 George R. R. Martin NESFA Press 1-886778-31-0
$25.00?$: US dollar
 448
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Charles Vess Checkmark
GRRM: A RRetrospective 2003-09-00 George R. R. Martin Subterranean Press 1-931081-91-3
$125.00?$: US dollar
 1283
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Phil Parks Checkmark
GRRM: A RRetrospective 2003-09-00 George R. R. Martin Subterranean Press 1-931081-90-5
$40.00?$: US dollar
 1283
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Phil Parks  
Dreamsongs: GRRM: A RRetrospective 2006-00-00 George R. R. Martin Gollancz 978-0-575-08148-2
£14.99?£: UK pound
 1182+
[3]
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 Dominic Harman  
Dreamsongs: GRRM: A RRetrospective 2006-09-00 George R. R. Martin Gollancz / Orion 0-575-07905-3
£20.00?£: UK pound
 1185
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Dominic Harman Checkmark
Dreamsongs: GRRM: A RRetrospective 2007-10-00 George R. R. Martin Gollancz / Orion 0-575-07905-3
£14.99?£: UK pound
 1185
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 Dominic Harman  
Dreamsongs: Volume II 2007-12-00 George R. R. Martin Bantam Books 978-0-553-90434-5
$12.99?$: US dollar
  
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
 coll Dominic Harman Checkmark
Dreamsongs: Volume II 2007-12-00 George R. R. Martin Bantam Spectra 0-553-80658-0
$27.00?$: US dollar
 741
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Dominic Harman Checkmark
Werewolves and Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within 2010-09-22 ed. John Skipp Black Dog & Leventhal 978-1-57912-852-4
$18.95?$: US dollar
 [viii]+
632
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 Singer Checkmark
Skin trade 2012-02-09 George R. R. Martin ActuSF (
Perles d'épice?Perles d'epice
)		 978-2-917689-34-9
€15.00?€: Euro
 226
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 Andrew Brase  
Dreamsongs: Volume II 2012-10-16 George R. R. Martin Bantam Books 978-0-553-38569-4
$18.00?$: US dollar
 741
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 Dominic Harman  
The Skin Trade 2013-10-00 George R. R. Martin WSFA Press 978-1-936896-03-5
$35.00?$: US dollar
 158
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 chap Rick Berry Checkmark
The Skin Trade 2013-10-00 George R. R. Martin WSFA Press 978-1-936896-04-2
$25.00?$: US dollar
 158
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 chap Rick Berry  
In der Haut des Wolfes 2014-08-00 George R. R. Martin Festa 978-3-86552-334-1
€14.80?€: Euro
 157
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 chap Timo Wuerz Checkmark
GRRM: Eine RRetrospektive 2 2014-12-00 George R. R. Martin Fantasy Productions 978-3-946502-08-1
€29.50?€: Euro
 621
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll  
Traumlieder Dritter Band 2015-06-00 George R. R. Martin Heyne 978-3-453-31672-0
€14.99?€: Euro
 825
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
Nele Schütz?Nele Schuetz
 Checkmark
GRRM: RRetrospectiva da obra 2017-00-00 George R. R. Martin LeYa Brasil 978-85-441-0622-8   1104
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Elmo Rosa Checkmark
Dark Visions unpublished ed. Douglas E. Winter Gollancz 978-0-575-08265-6   224
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  
Dreamsongs: GRRM: A RRetrospective date unknown George R. R. Martin Gollancz / Orion 0-575-07905-3
£20.00?£: UK pound
 1185
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Dominic Harman Checkmark
Dark Visions date unknown ed. Douglas E. Winter Orion 978-0-575-40290-4
£7.99?£: UK pound
 381
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 Caz Chiba Checkmark
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