False Dawn
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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 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
- 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)