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The Patchwork Girl

66.7% complete
1980
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Never (or unknown...)
See 13
1 - City of Mirrors
2 - View Through a Window
3 - The Projection Room
4 - The Cratered Lands
5 - The Conference Table
6 - The Lunar Law
7 - Last Night and Morning After
8 - The Other Crime
9 - The Trading Post
10 - The Tilted Rock
11 - The Empty Room
12 - The Traditional Elements
13 - Penalties
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Copyright © 1980 by Larry Niven
We fell east-to-west, dipping toward the Moon in the usual shallow, graceful arc.
The Moon
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Added: 19-Apr-2022
Last Updated: 04-Oct-2024

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 01-Oct-1984
Ace
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Oct-1984
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$2.75
Pages*:
205
Internal ID:
2521
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-441-65317-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-441-65317-1
Printing:
4
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Fernando Fernandez  - Cover Artist
Fernando Fernandez - Illustrator
ONLY ONE PERSON COULD
HAVE BEEN ON THE LUNAR SURFACE...

Her name is Naomi Mitchison.  She's the most beautiful woman on the Moon; she was also the only person who was outside on the lunar surface at the right moment to send a near-fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker for the Asteroids.  But she's not a murderer - that much ARM investigator Gil "the Arm" Hamilton is sure of, even though all the evidence seems to point staight at her.  Trials these days are short and sentencing for captial crimes is always the same: the organ banks, where felons wait in huge tanks to repay society with bits and pieces of their bodies.  Gil has got to move fast to keep Naomi in one piece or the most beautiful woman on Luna is going to be a nicely arranged sack of space parts.

With the aid of over fifty superb interior illustrations by Fernando, match wits with the sharpest mind in science fiction in a classic Locked Universe mystery!
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Notes and Comments:
Ace original / April 1980
Fourth printing / October 1984
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01-Oct-1984
Ace
Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

 Larry Niven
Birth: 30 Apr 1938 Los Angeles, California, USA
Notes:
Larry Niven is the pen name of Laurence van Cott Niven.  He was born in 1938 in California.  He received a Bachelor's of Science in mathematics from Washburn University in Kansas.  His first publication was "The Coldest Place" for If in 1964.  He has since written many books including those in his Tales of Known Space series which also began in "The Coldest Place".
From Beowulf's Children:

Born April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California. Attended California Institute of Technology; flunked out after discovering a book store jammed with used science fiction magazines.  Graduated Washburn University, Kansas, June 1962: BA in Mathematics with a Minor in Psychology, and later received an honorary doctorate in Letters from Washburn. Interests: Science fiction conventions, role playing games, AAAS meetings and other gatherings of people at the cutting edges of science. Comics. Filk singing. Yoga and other approaches to longevity. Moving mankind into space by any means, but particularly by making space endeavors attractive to commercial interests. Several times we’ve hosted The Citizens Advisory Council for a National Space Policy. I grew up with dogs. I live with a cat, and borrow dogs to hike with. I have passing acquaintance with raccoons and ferrets. Associating with nonhumans has certainly gained me insight into alien intelligences.

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