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'''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.
* reprinted in [[The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection]] in 1990. Hardcover ISBN 0312044518 and paperback ISBN 0312044526.
* reprinted in [[Best New SF 4]] in August 1990, a paperback from Robinson with ISBN 9781854870575. Edited by Gardner Dozois. Cover by [[Ian Craig]].
* 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]].
* reprinted in the anthology [[Isaac Asimov's Camelot]] in 1998 with ISBN 0441005276.
* reprinted in [[the Inheritance (anthology)|The Inheritance]] anthology (in various formats, see the article) in 2011 with a foreword from the author.
==Editions=Covers===* first published in [[<gallery perrow="10">Image:Lady iasfm.jpg|Asimov's Magazine]] in January Science Fiction (1989 )* included in [[Image:509bb340dca0d766fc3a6010.L.jpg|The Year’s 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 0-940841-98-3Image:Bestnewsf4.jpg|Best New SF 4 (1990)* a numbered 250-copy edition was distributed with the leatherbound edition of [[Wizard of the Pigeons]] in Image:Deluxewizard.jpg|Deluxe hardcover (1994)* reprinted in the anthology [[Image:59 1.JPG|Isaac Asimov's Camelot]] in (1998)* reprinted in [[the Image:Anz paperback inheritance.jpg|The Inheritance (ANZ trade paperback)Image:InheritanceButtermilk.jpg|The Inheritance (UK hardcover)Image:Audio Inheritance.jpg |The Inheritance (anthologyUK audio book)Image:The Inheritance and Other Stories.jpg|The Inheritance]] in 2011and Other Stories (US ARC)Image: 9780061561641.jpg|The Inheritance and Other Stories (US trade paperback)</gallery>
==Translations==
* An Italian translation '''La dama d'argento e l'uomo di mezza et√†età''', translated by [[Carla Meazza]]. Published by Millemondi Inverno twice: First published in 1992 in ''Stelle di neutroni'' and again in ''Millemondi Inverno 1995 in ''Unby Arnoldo Mondadori with cover art by [[Giuseppe Festino]]. ===International covers===<gallery perrow="5">Image:9178 1.JPG|Italian, ''antologia a cura Stelle di Gardner Dozoisneutroni'' (both books are translations of [[The Year1992)Image:It-anthology-silverlady.jpg|Italian, ''Millemondi Inverno 1995s''s Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection]]) </gallery>
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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