Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man

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The cover of The Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man, art by Rick Sherman.

Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man is a story written for Megan's husband Fred for his 40th birthday. The Silver Lady is a would-be writer who, working in a Sears store, meets a man who seems ordinary in every way - except his name is Merlin.


Editions

  • a limited signed 1000-copy chapbook edition Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man from Hypatia Press in April 1994 with the ISBN 0940841983. Cover by Rick Sherman.
  • a numbered 50-copy hardcover edition was distributed with the leather-bound deluxe edition of Wizard of the Pigeons from Hypatia Press in 1994. Includes an introduction by Megan's daughter Katie Ogden.

Covers

Translations

  • A Dutch translation (title?) published in 2012 in De verhalen.
  • A French translation Le Quadragénaire et la Dame d'Argent in the anthology De Brocéliande en Avalon in April 2008. Translation by Lionel Davoust. Reprinted in 2012 with by Terre de Brume with ISBN 9782843623776.
  • A French translation La Dame d’Argent et le Quadragénaire in L’Héritage et autres nouvelles first published in 2012, reprinted in 2013.
  • A German translation Silberdame und der Mann um die Vierzig from Heyne in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazin 38. Folge in December 1991. Edited by Friedel Wahren, paperback with ISBN 345305377X and cover art by Karel Thole.
  • An Italian translation La dama d'argento e l'uomo di mezza età, translated by Carla Meazza. First published in 1992 in Stelle di neutroni and again in Millemondi Inverno 1995 by Arnoldo Mondadori with cover art by Giuseppe Festino.
  • A Polish translation Srebrna Dama i facet po czterdziestce, translated by Agnieszka Hałas, published in the Fenix anthology volume 5 (2019) by Gniazdo Światów, edited by Aleksandra Janusz Slver. Also available in an ebook edition, however for licensing reasons "Silver Lady" is only available in the printed version.


International covers

Awards

The story was a nominee for both the Nebula Award and the Asimov's Readers Award for Best Novelette in 1989.


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This story is included in The Inheritance anthology.

Robin Hobb stories: The Inheritance | Homecoming | Cat's Meat

Megan Lindholm stories: A Touch of Lavender | Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man | Cut | The Fifth Squashed Cat | Strays | Finis | Drum Machine