Tatja Grimm's World

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

TATJA GRIMM’S WORLD

Copyright © 1987 by Vernor Vinge

Originally published in July 1987 by Baen Books.

Part I appeared in a slightly different form as The Barbarian Princess, copyright © 1986 by Vernor Vinge, in Analog, September 1986.

Part II appeared in a different form as Grimm’s Story, copyright © 1968 by Vernor Vinge, in Damon Knight’s anthology Orbit 4, published by Putnam and Berkley, 1968.

Parts II and III appeared in a different form as Grimm's World, copyright © 1969 by Vernor Vinge, published by Berkley Books, 1969.

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Edited by James Frenkel

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Vinge, Vernor.

Tatja Grimm’s world / Vernor Vinge. p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates Book.”

ISBN 0-765-30885-1

EAN 978-0-765-30885-6

PS3572.I534.T35 2006

813'. 54—dc22

2005055944

Printed in the United States of America

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