Grimus

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Grimus
Author Salman Rushdie
Cover artist Andrew McMillan
Country Great Britain
Language English
Genre(s) Fantasy novel/Science Fiction
Publisher J. D. Gray Ltd
Publication date 1975
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 317 pp (hardcover edition)
ISBN ISBN 0575018712 (hardcover edition)

Grimus is a 1975 fantasy and science fiction novel written by Salman Rushdie.

Reviews of the book when first published emphasized its science fiction elements [1]. The science fiction author Brian Aldiss has claimed that he, Kingsley Amis and Arthur C. Clarke served on a science fiction book prize jury at the time which identified Grimus as the best candidate for a science fiction book of the year award, but this prize was refused by the publishers who did not want the book to be classified as science fiction for marketing reasons'[2].

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