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[[Image:Silver Lady.jpg|thumb|The cover of The Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man cover, 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 is ordinary in every way - except his name is [[Merlin]].
==Editions==
* first published in [[Asimov's Magazine]] in January 1989
* included in [[The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection]] in 1990
* a limited 1000-copy signed edition by Hypatia Press in April 1994 with a cover by [[Rick Sherman]] with the ISBN 0-940841-98-3
* a numbered 250-copy edition was distributed with the leatherbound edition of [[Wizard of the Pigeons]]in 1994* reprinted in the anthology [[Isaac Asimov's Camelot]] in 1998* reprinted in [[the Inheritance (anthology)|The Inheritance]] in 2011.
==Translations==
The story was a Nebula Award nominee in 1989 and won Asimov's Readers Award for Best Novelette the same year.
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