Book Club edition and first hardcover edition. Code #13599 on rear jacket panel. (Preceded by the mass market paperback.) Fine (unread) copy in near fine jacket. Not a remainder or ex-library copy. The copy is clean and square. The jacket has one closed tear, 1.5cm in length, at the top edge of the rear jacket panel. Zettel's first novel and winner of the Locus Poll Award for Best First Novel. Award History: Co-winner of the 1997 Locus Award for Best First Novel (tied with Whiteout by Sage Walker); 1996 Philip K. Dick Award Nominee (lost to The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter).