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Dirk P Broer: Publication history

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	[[Image:Yarbro-FalseDawn-2-BabbagePr.jpg\|thumb\|right\|125px\|Cover of Babbage Press edition]]		[[Image:Yarbro-FalseDawn-2-BabbagePr.jpg\|thumb\|right\|125px\|Cover of 2002 Babbage Press edition]]

	'''False Dawn''' is a 1978 novel by [[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]]. The first chapter of the novel was published as "False Dawn" in ''[[Strange Bedfellows]]'' edited by [[Thomas N. Scortia]] (1973).		'''False Dawn''' is a 1978 novel by [[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]]. The first chapter of the novel was published as "False Dawn" in ''[[Strange Bedfellows]]'' edited by [[Thomas N. Scortia]] (1973).

	''False Dawn'' takes place in a near future. No single great holocaust has happened but the world (or North America, anyway) has swiftly declined and is now sparsely populated, badly polluted, over-run with bands of rapists and thugs, and mutations are commonplace. The female protagonist is a mutant, and a very capable woman, who joins forces with a man in what may be a futile attempt to find a refuge. This is a remarkably grim world but an engrossing read, nonetheless.		''False Dawn'' takes place in a near future. No single great holocaust has happened but the world (or North America, anyway) has swiftly declined and is now sparsely populated, badly polluted, over-run with bands of rapists and thugs, and mutations are commonplace. The female protagonist is a mutant, and a very capable woman, who joins forces with a man in what may be a futile attempt to find a refuge. This is a remarkably grim world but an engrossing read, nonetheless.

			==Publication history==
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			* Apr 1978, New York, NY: Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-13144-5. (hardcover) Cover art by Gary Friedman
			* Aug 1978, New York, NY: Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC), #3324. (hardcover) Cover art by Gary Friedman
			* Apr 1979, New York, NY: Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-90077-X. (paperback) Cover art by Jim Dietz
			* 1979, London, UK: Sidgwick & Jackson, ISBN 0-283-98561-5. (hardcover)
			* 1981, London, UK: Panther/Granada, ISBN 0-586-05227-5. (paperback) Cover art by Melvyn
			* 2002, Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, ISBN 1-930-23510-0. (hardcover)
			===Translations===
			* Feb 1980, Paris, France: Denoël - Présence du Futur #292, (translated by Catherine Vonarburg into the French as '''Fausse Aurore''', paperback) Cover art by Stéphane Dumont
			* 1981, Amsterdam, the Netherlands: De Arbeiderspers - SFem, ISBN 90-295-5800-8. (translated by Ingrid Tóth and Nan Lenders into the Dutch as '''Hazegrauw''', hardcover) Cover art by Poen de Wijs
			* 1990, Poznań, Poland: Nakom, ISBN 83-850-6006-5. (translated by Zbigniew A. Królicki into the Polish as '''Przedświt''', paperback)
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	'''False Dawn''' is a 1978 novel by [[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]]. The first chapter of the novel was published as "False Dawn" in ''[[Strange Bedfellows]]'' edited by [[Thomas N. Scortia]] (1973).		'''False Dawn''' is a 1978 novel by [[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]]. The first chapter of the novel was published as "False Dawn" in ''[[Strange Bedfellows]]'' edited by [[Thomas N. Scortia]] (1973).

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	'''False Dawn''' is a 1978 novel by [[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]]. The first chapter of the novel was published as "False Dawn" in ''[[Strange Bedfellows]]'' edited by [[Thomas N. Scortia]] (1973).		'''False Dawn''' is a 1978 novel by [[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]]. The first chapter of the novel was published as "False Dawn" in ''[[Strange Bedfellows]]'' edited by [[Thomas N. Scortia]] (1973).

			''False Dawn'' takes place in a near future. No single great holocaust has happened but the world (or North America, anyway) has swiftly declined and is now sparsely populated, badly polluted, over-run with bands of rapists and thugs, and mutations are commonplace. The female protagonist is a mutant, and a very capable woman, who joins forces with a man in what may be a futile attempt to find a refuge. This is a remarkably grim world but an engrossing read, nonetheless.

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'''False Dawn''' is a 1978 novel by [[Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]]. The first chapter of the novel was published as "False Dawn" in ''[[Strange Bedfellows]]'' edited by [[Thomas N. Scortia]] (1973).

[[Category:Novels]]
[[Category:1978 publications]]