Title: A Message to the King of Brobdingnag
Title Record # 48940
Author: Richard Cowper
Date: 1984-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Current Tags: end of the world (1), first person point of view (1), near future (1), genetic engineering (1), agricultural science (1) Add Tags
Author: Richard Cowper
Date: 1984-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Synopsis: An effort to develop plants which need less or no fertilizer goes wrong and creates a strain of algae which escapes into the wild and begins to overgrow all the rivers, lakes, streams, and ponds.
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Awards
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| 18 | 1985 Locus | Best Novelette |
Publications
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1984 | 1984-05-00 | ed. Edward L. Ferman | Mercury Press, Inc. | $1.75?$: US dollar |
164 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | David Hardy |  |
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| The Tithonian Factor and Other Stories | 1984-05-00 | Richard Cowper | Gollancz | 0-575-03440-8 | £7.95?£: UK pound |
150 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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| The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection | 1985-04-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | Bluejay Books | 0-312-94485-3 | $10.95?$: US dollar |
573 | 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: Second Annual Collection | 1985-04-00 | ed. Gardner Dozois | Bluejay Books | 0-312-94484-5 | $19.95?$: US dollar |
573 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Thomas Kidd | |
| Le facteur tithonien | 1985-09-00 | Richard Cowper | Denoël?Denoel (Présence du Futur?Presence du Futur #408) |
2-207-30408-6 | 180 | 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. |
coll | Jacques Puiseux | |
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| Johann Sebastian Bach Memorial Barbecue | 1990-06-00 | ed. Wolfgang Jeschke | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4697) | 3-453-04279-4 | DM 16.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
589 | 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 | Karel Thole | |
| Armageddons | 1999-11-00 | ed. Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois | Ace Books | 0-441-00675-2 | $5.99?$: US dollar |
xiii+ 269 |
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 | Phil Heffernan | |
| The Tithonian Factor | 2012-09-18 | Richard Cowper | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-10822-6 | £2.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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| Armageddons | 2013-03-15 | ed. Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois | Baen | 978-1-62579-107-8 | $4.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
anth |