City of Truth
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Overview:
- Title: City of Truth
- Author: James Morrow
- Year: 1991
- Type: Novel
Notes:
City of Truth was the winner of the 1992 SFWA Nebula award in the Novella category. Comment by the author in Nebula Awards 28 City of Truth traces to a short story, Veritas, that I wrote for George Zebrowski's anthology series, Synergy. In that particular yarn, I systematically delineated the concept of a truth-telling dystopia, but shortly after its publication I began to feel that the premise deserved something beyond the spy-thriller plot I'd erected. When my then-current British editor, Deborah Beale, invited me to contribute to her Legend Novellas series at Random Century, I began thinking more deeply about the conundrum of candor. âHonesty is a good thing,â I told myself, âbut what if my young son were dying? Wouldn't my first instinct be to spare him the truth?â And so I returned to Veritas, putting the main character through an ordeal far more intense than the one faced by his counterpart in the original story. While the first edition bears a January 1991 publication date (qualifying it for the 1992 Nebula ballot) it seems the book was available as early as November 1990 as Locus Magazine carried reviews in November 1990 (review by Faren Miller) and in December 1990 (review by Mark R. Kelly). The story has a 1990 copyright date which may explain why there are catalogue listings for this book for â1990.â
Editions/Publications:
- xxxx. City of Truth (James Morrow Century/Legend, ISBN-10: 0712636870, 128 pages, Hardcover, Novel)
- 1991. City of Truth (January 1991, James Morrow Century/Legend, ISBN-10: 0712636935, £9.99, 104 pages, Hardcover, Novel)
- 1991. City of Truth (June 1991, James Morrow Legend, ISBN-10: 0712645756, £4.99, 104 pages, Trade, Novel)
- 1992. City of Truth (June 1992, James Morrow St. Martin's, ISBN-10: 031207672X, $14.95, 104 pages, Hardcover, Novel)
- 1992. City of Truth (July 1992, James Morrow SFBC, Catalog ID: #01741, $6.98, 104 pages, Hardcover, Novel)
- 1993. City of Truth (May 1993, James Morrow Harcourt Brace, ISBN-10: 0156180421, $7.95, 144 pages, Trade, Novel)
- 1994. Nebula Awards 28 (April 1994, James Morrow Harcourt Brace & Company, ISBN-10: 0156000393, $12.95, 329 pages, Trade, Anthology)
- 1994. Nebula Awards 28 (April 1994, James Morrow Harcourt Brace & Company, ISBN-10: 0151000824, $24.95, 329 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)
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