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The Blind Geometer

Kim Stanley Robinson

First published December 1986
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

Notes

SFE says "1986; with 1 story added, coll 1989 dos [i. e. the Tor Double with UKLG's The New Atlantis which also contained Return from the Rainbow Bridge] - a later but lesser magazine version won the 1987 Nebula."
In fact there are at least three versions:

  • The original text, which was printed by Cheap Street. (1986)
  • The magazine version, which strips out the details and framework of Desargues' theorem, which in the Cheap Street version introduces the various sections of the story. (1987)
  • The version printed in the Tor Double, which restores (and sometimes revises) the Desargues' theorem framework, and also expands upon the original Cheap Street text. (1989)

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1988 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Novella Nominee/Finalist
1988 Hugo Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist
1988 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Runner-up
1988 Nebula Award Novella Winner
1988 SF Chronicle Award Novella Runner-up

Publications (13)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1986 The Blind Geometer Cheap Street Chapbook 10
December 1986 The Blind Geometer Cheap Street Chapbook 10
August 1987 Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1987 Davis Publications MAGAZINE 142
April 1989 Nebula Awards 23 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Anthology 255
April 1989 Nebula Awards 23 Harvest / HBJ Anthology 255
October 1989 The Blind Geometer / The New Atlantis Tor Anthology 1
November 1992 Down and Out in the Year 2000 Grafton Collection 117
1993 The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s Carroll & Graf Anthology 426
1993 The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s Robinson Anthology 426
2004 Science Fiction W. H. Smith Anthology 426
July 2010 The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson Night Shade Books Collection 119
August 2010 The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson Night Shade Books Collection |8
December 2010 The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson Night Shade Books Collection 119