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Nine Lives
| Author: | Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Pulphouse Publishing, 1992 Playboy Magazine, 1969 |
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| Book Type: | Novelette |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Human Development |
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Synopsis
Nebula Award nominated novelette.
On a distant mining planet, two men must work with a group of ten clones, five male and five female, who are completely reliant on themselves and on one another.
It originally appeared in Playboy, November 1969. The story can also be found in the anthologies:
- Best SF: 1969 (1970), edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
- World's Best Science Fiction: 1970, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
- Nebula Award Stories Five (1970),edited by James Blish
- Modern Science Fiction (1974), edited by Norman Spinrad
- Bio-Futures (1976), edited by Pamela Sargent
- The World Treasury of Science Fiction (1989), edited David G. Hartwell
- The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
- Clones (1998), edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
- The Future Is Female!: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin (2018), edited by Lisa Yaszek
It is included in the collections:
- The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975)
- Outer Space, Inner Lands (2012)
- The Wind's Twelve Quarters & The Compass Rose (2015)
Read the full story for free at the Baen website.
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