Border Guards

Name: Border Guards
Author: Greg Egan

1999 novelette by Greg Egan

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Author: Greg Egan
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Released: October 1999
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Language: English
Genre: science fiction
Awards: Locus Award for Best Novelette(2000)
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"Border Guards" is a science-fiction novelette by Australian writer Greg Egan, first published in Interzone 148 in October 1999. The novelette was included in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois in 2000, Year's Best SF 5 edited by David G. Hartwell in 2000 and Beyond Singularity edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was also published in the collection Oceanic in 2009.

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Published in: Interzone
Oceanic
Title: Border Guards
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Gardes-frontières
Guardie di confine
ボーダー・ガード
Grenswachten
Form of creative work: novelette
Nominations: Hugo Award for Best Novelette(2000)
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