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* [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.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]


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Emergence
First Edition cover of Emergence
AuthorDavid R. Palmer
Cover artistJim Burns
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction novel
PublisherBantam Spectra
Publication date
November 1984
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
ISBNISBN 0-553-25519-3 (first edition, paperback) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character


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[1] 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.[1]

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

Novellas

  • Seeking -- published in the February 1983 Analog magazine.[3] It was nominated for a Hugo, a Locus, and won an Analog Analytical Laboratory Award.[1] A somewhat different form became the second volume of the novel.

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