num_pages: 290
description: Multi-award winning author Greg Bear established himself as the most ambitious and imaginative of the potential successors to Arthur C. Clarke with his bestselling space operas Eon and Eternity. Tangents is his first collection of short stories and includes two tales that won both Hugo and Nebula ‘Tangents’ a remarkable account of contact with beings from another dimension, and the original short version of his classic novel Blood Music.
language: English
title: Tangents
titlecomplete: Tangents
genres: Science Fiction, Collections, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Fantasy, Short Story Collection, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 804
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Short Story for “Tangents”, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Collection, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Bestes ausländisches Werk, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Analog Award
category: Best Short Story for "Schrödinger's Plague"
publisher: Gollancz