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A Dance to Strange Musics

Gregory Benford

First published November 1998
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

A human expedition to Alpha Centauri finds an earth-like planet with a strange ecology, and risk their lives to understand the underlying principles.

Notes

First published in Science Fiction Age, November 1998.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1999 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (15)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1998 Science Fiction Age, November 1998 Sovereign Media Co. MAGAZINE 68
June 1999 Year's Best SF 4 HarperPrism Anthology 31
July 1999 Year's Best SF 4 HarperPrism / SFBC Anthology 31
April 2000 Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 443
May 2000 Exploring the Horizons: Explorers, and the Furthest Horizon Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus 420
October 2000 Worlds Vast and Various Eos / HarperCollins Collection 274
August 2002 Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons Anthology 443
August 2009 The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF Running Press Anthology 105
August 2009 The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF Robinson Anthology 105
August 2009 The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF Robinson Anthology
October 2009 Year's Best SF 4 HarperCollins e-books Anthology |200
March 2013 Worlds Vast and Various Gateway / Orion Collection
August 2015 The Best of Gregory Benford Subterranean Press Collection 389
August 2015 The Best of Gregory Benford Subterranean Press Collection |389
August 2015 The Best of Gregory Benford Subterranean Press Collection 389