Emergence (novel)

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name = Emergence
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image_caption = First Edition cover of "Emergence"
author = David R. Palmer
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cover_artist = Jim Burns
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Bantam Spectra
release_date = November 1984
media_type = Print (Paperback)
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isbn = ISBN 0-553-25519-3 (first edition, paperback)
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"Emergence" is a science fiction book written by David R. Palmer and first published by Bantam Spectra in November 1984. It had three printings through July 1985, and was republished in 1990 as a "Signature Special Edition" with a few minor edits and a new afterword by the author.

"Emergence" was Palmer's first published novel. It was developed from a pair of Hugo [https://secure.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit69.html Locus Online's list of awards and nominations] ] and Nebula award nominated novellas originally published in somewhat different form in Analog magazine. The novel itself was nominated for a Hugo Award, a pair of Locus awards (for first novel and science fiction novel), was a finalist for a Philip K. Dick Award, and won the Compton Crook Award.

The writing style of "Emergence" is especially unusual, as it is written in sentences almost entirely without subjects, intended to simulate shorthand.

Novellas

* "Emergence" -- published in an Analog anthology titled Children of the Future on January 5, 1981. [ [https://secure.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/AnLab1982.html#nva Locus Online's list of Awards: 1982 Analog Analytical Laboratory] ] It was nominated for a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, a Locus Award, and won an Analog Analytical Laboratory Award. Palmer was nominated for the 1983 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction on the strength of this novella. A somewhat different form became the first volume of the novel.

* "Seeking" -- published in the February 1983 Analog magazine. [ [https://secure.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/AnLab1984.html#nva Locus Online's list of Awards: 1984 Analog Analytical Laboratory] ] It was nominated for a Hugo, a Locus, and won an Analog Analytical Laboratory Award. A somewhat different form became the second volume of the novel.

References

External links

* [http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-553-24501-5.html Review written by Russ Allbery in the style of the book]
* [http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/sf/books/p/palmer.htm Review by Susan Stepney]
* [http://dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/data/palmerdr-emergence.html Review by David Dyer-Bennet]