num_pages: 456
description: In the year 2055, a disease called "Distress" affects millions, and when investigative reporter Andrew Worth travels to the virtual planet of Stateless to document a gathering of physicists, his focus, Violet Mosala, begins to receive death threats, and he discovers that "Distress" is linked to the conference and to the end of the world. Reprint.
language: English
title: Distress
titlecomplete: Distress
genres: Australia, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Fiction, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk
ratings_count: 2559
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Foreign Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Aurealis Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: SF ga Yomitai
category: Best Translated SF of the Year in Japan, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Translated Novel
publisher: Eos