The Cost to Be Wise

Maureen F. McHugh

First published	September 1996
Type	Short Fiction
Length	Novella

Notes

Approximate word count: 19,500 words.

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Status
1997	Hugo Award	Best Novella	Nominee/Finalist
1997	Locus Poll Award	Best Novella	Nominee/Finalist
1997	Nebula Award	Novella	Nominee/Finalist

Publications (18)

Date	Publication	Publisher	Type	Page
September 1996	Starlight 1	Tor	Anthology	260
September 1996	Starlight 1	Tor	Anthology	260
1997	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection	St. Martin's Griffin	Anthology	218
June 1997	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection	St. Martin's Griffin	Anthology	218
June 1997	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection	St. Martin's Press	Anthology	218
August 1997	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection	St. Martin's Press / SFBC	Anthology	275
October 1997	The Best New Science Fiction: 10th Annual Collection	Raven Books / Robinson Publishing	Anthology	245
July 2005	Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories	Small Beer Press	Collection	31
November 2006	Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories	Small Beer Press	Collection	33
February 2007	The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels	St. Martin's Press	Anthology	418
February 2007	The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels	St. Martin's Griffin	Anthology
February 2007	The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels	St. Martin's Griffin	Anthology	418
December 2007	The Cost to Be Wise	Audiotext	Chapbook
October 2008	The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels	Paw Prints	Anthology	418
April 2009	The Mammoth Book of Best Short SF Novels	Robinson	Anthology	519
April 2009	The Mammoth Book of Best Short SF Novels	Robinson	Anthology	\|519
June 2014	Lightspeed, June 2014	Lightspeed Magazine	MAGAZINE	\|17
June 2014	Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue	Lightspeed Magazine	MAGAZINE	206