Engine Summer

Engine Summer
Cover of the first edition
AuthorJohn Crowley
IllustratorGary Friedman
Anne Yvonne Gilbert (1983)
Cover artistGary Friedman
Anne Yvonne Gilbert (1983)
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
March 1979
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages182
ISBN0-385-12831-2
OCLC4490941
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ4.C9533 En PS3553.R597

Engine Summer is a novel by American writer John Crowley, published in 1979 by Doubleday. It was nominated for the 1980 National Book Award for hardcover science fiction,[1] as well as both the British Fantasy and John W. Campbell Awards the same year.[2] It was rewritten from Crowley's unpublished first novel, Learning to Live With It.[3] It has been illustrated by Gary Friedman (1979) and Anne Yvonne Gilbert (1983).

  1. ^ "National Book Foundation". Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  2. ^ "1980 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
  3. ^ "Great Work Takes Time," Locus, May 2001, pp. 4-5.