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Collected Short Fiction
Robert Silverberg
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Title Page
About Robert Silverberg
Pseudonyms
“They Write . . .”
“Jay Kay Klein’s Biolog”
Bibliography: Novels
Bibliography: Magazine-published Novels
Bibliography: Serials
Bibliography: Chapbooks
Bibliography: Collections
Bibliography: Omnibus
Bibliography: Nonfiction
Short Fiction Bibliography: chronological
Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical
Fiction Series
Epigraph
1954
Gorgon Planet
The Silent Colony
1955
The Martian
Yokel with Portfolio
1956
Hole in the Air
A Woman’s Right
Always
To Be Continued
No Future In This
The Dessicator
Dream Girl
Entrance Exam
Gambler’s Planet
The Chosen People
Absolutely Inflexible
Run of Luck
Stay Out of My Grave
Catch a Thief
The Lonely One
Guardian of the Crystal gate
O’ Captain, My Captain
The Slow and the Dead
Revolt of the Synthetics
The MacAuley Circuit
The Beast with 7 Tails
Vault of the Ages
Look Homeword, Spaceman
Calling Captain Flint
The Final Challenge
The Promised Land
Venus Trap
The Songs of Summer
Mind for Business
The Hunted Heroes
Hopper
Sound Decision
The Girl from Bodies, Inc
The Judas Valley
Deus Ex Machina
No Trap for the Keth
Sourdough
Double Dare
The Rivals
The Man with Talent
Collecting Team
Choke Chain
Man of Many Bodies
The Mummy Takes a Wife
The Inquisitor
Lair of the Dragonbird
The Alien Dies at Dawn
A World of His Own
The Great Kladnar Race
Battle for the Thousand Suns
Catch ’Em All Alive!
False Prophet
Secret of the Green Invaders
1957
First Kill
Pay Up or Else
The Ultimate Weapon
The Star Slavers
The Nudes of Quendar III
Godling, Go Home
An Enemt of Peace
The Mystery of Deneb IV
Bleekman’s Planet
Outcast of the Stars
The Incomplete Theft
Deadly Decoy
Slaves of the Star Giants
The Guest Rites
The Man With X-Ray Eyes
Citadel of Darkness
The Dawning Light (First of Three Parts)
Forgotten World
Freak Show
Swords Against the Outworlders
Father Image
Force of Mortality
Solitary
Starship Saboteur
The Man Who Hated Noise
The Artifact Business
Cosmic Kill (First Installment)
The Dawning Light (Second of Three Parts)
Harwood’s Vortex
Slaughter on Dornel IV
The Old Man
Galactic Thrill Kids
Hidden Talent
Spawn of the Deadly Sea
Cosmic Kill (Final Installment)
The Dawning Light (Conclusion)
Sunrise on Mercury
Warm Man
Quick Freeze
Monday Immortal
Twelve Hours to Blow!
The Last Killer
World of a Thousand Colors
New Men For Mars
Six Frightened Men
Age of Anxiety
A Season for Remorse
Chalice of Death
The Secret of Shan
Woman’s World
Hot Trip for Venus
Neutral Planet
Pirates of the Void
The Assassin
Run of the Mill
The Blue Plague
Blaze of Glory
Call Me Zombie!
Anything His Heart Desires
En Route to Earth
Reality Unlimited
Skid Row Pilot
This World Must Die!
Three Survived
Outpost Peril
New Years’s Eve—2000
The Dead World
His Head in the Clouds
Killer First-Class
Postmark Ganymede
The Flame and the Hammer
The Winds of Siros
A Time for Revenge
Death’s Planet
The Mannion Court-Martial
Overlord of Colony Eight
The Ambassador’s Pet
Thunder Over Starhaven
The Android Kill
Housemaid 103
One-Way Journey
Why?
The Lunatic Planet
The Shrines of Earth
The Hunters of Cutwold
Critical Threshold
Rescue Mission
Earth Shall Live Again!
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
Valley Beyond Time
Hero from Yesterday
House Operator
Misfit
Precedent
The Happy Unfortunate
The Werewolf Gambit
1958
Moon of Death
Traitor Legion
Vanishing Act
The Man Who Never Forgot
All the King’s Horses
Hun the Space-Witch!
Prime Commandment
Prison Planet
The Happy Sleepers
A Madman on Board
Never Trust a Thief!
No Way Out
We, the Marauders
Alaree
Decision Final
Eve and the Twenty-Three Adams
The Lure of Galaxy A
The Overlord’s Thumb
Vengeance of the Space Armadas
Planet of Parasites
The Seed of Earth
Passport to Sirius
Shadow on the Stars
Slice of Life
The Woman You Wanted
The Iron Chancellor
Invasion Vanguard
Unknown Soldier of Space
Come into My Brain!
Voyage to Procyon
Slave of the Tree
Frontier Planet
3117 Half-Credit Uncirculated
Recalled to Life (Part 1)
The Reluctant Traitor
Constabulary Duty
Heir Reluctant
Menace from Vega
The Fire Die Down
Road to Nightfall
A World Called Sunrise
The Cold-Blooded Ones
A Planet All My Own
Homecoming Horde
Point of Focus
The Four
Recalled to Life (Part 2)
The Wages of Death
The Fight with the Gorgon
A Little Intelligence
Fueling Stop
Castaways of Space
The Untouchables
The Silent Invaders
There was an Old Woman—
Ozymandias
Birds of a Feather
Gateway to Terror
Spacerogue
The Isolationists
Exiled from Earth
The Unique and Terrible Compulsion
The Aliens Were Haters
House Divided
1959
Deadlock
Strong Waters
Waters of Forgetfulness
Demons of Cthulhu
Re-Conditioned Human
You Do Something to Me
Delivery Guaranteed
Earthman’s Burden
Hi Diddle Diddle!
The World He Left Behind
The Thing Behind Hell’s Door
Demons of Cthulu
His Brother’s Weeper
One Night of Violence
Translation Error
Mournfull Monster
Vampires from Outer Space
A Cry for Help
The Moon is New
The Undertaker’s Sideline
There’s No Place Like Space
Appropriation
Company Store
Guardian Devil
The Middle-Aged Rookie
The Day the Monsters Broke Loose
Beasts of Nightmare Horror
Collision Course
Leisure Class
Malnutrition
Mons ters That Once Were Men
Planet of the Angry Giants
The Horror in the Attic
Which was the Monster?
MUgwump Four
The Outbreeders
Eye of the Beholder
The Insidious Invaders
Counterpart
The Loathsome Beasts
The Monsters Came By Night
Certainty
The Impossible Intelligence
1960
Stress Pattern
The Calibrated Alligator
Dangerous Dolls
Subterfuge
The Still Small Voice
1961
Dark Companion
The Man Who Came Back
The Shape of Sound to Come
Beatnik Wife
1962
The Seed of Earth
1963
The Nature of the Place
To See the Invisible Man
The Shadow of Wings
The Asteroid Stealers
The Pain Peddlers
The Unbeliever
1964
Boiling Point
Neighbor
1965
The Sixth Place
Back from the Grave
At the End of Days
Warriors of Light
1966
Where the Changed Ones Go
Lazarus Come Forth!
Open the Sky
Halfway House
1967
By the Seawall
Blue Fire
Planet of Death
Hawksbill Station
Bride Ninety-One
Flies
King of the Golden World
1968
The Man in the Maze (First of Two Parts)
The Man in the Maze (Conclusion)
To the Dark Star
Passengers
Going Down Smooth
As Is
Nightwings
The Fangs of the Tree
Perris Way
1969
To Jorslem
Sundance
Up the Line (First of Two Parts)
Up the Line (Second of Two Parts)
How It Was When the Past Went Away
After the Myths Went Away
Downward to Earth (Part I)
Downward to Earth (Part II)
1970
The Pleasure of Their Company
Ishmael in Love
A Happy Day in 2381
Black is Beautiful
Downward to Earth (Part III)
Downward to Earth (Conclusion)
The Tower of Glass (Part I)
The Reality Trip
The Tower of Glass (Part II)
The Tower of Glass (Conclusion)
We Know Who We Are
The Throwbacks
The World Outside
Ringing the Changes
In the Beginning
The Song the Zombie Sang
We are Well Organized
1971
A Time of Changes (Part One)
Good News from the Vatican
A Time of Changes (Part Two)
A Time of Changes (Conclusion)
All the Way Up, All the Way Down
The Second Trip (First of Two Parts)
The Second Trip (Second of Two Parts)
Something Wild is Loose
Going
1972
When We Went to See the End of the World
Caliban
Thomas The Proclaimer
Dying Inside (First of Two Parts)
Dying Inside (Conclusion)
In Entropy’s Jaws
Now+n, Now-n
Push No More
What We Learned from this Morning’s Newspaper
Caught in the Organ Draft
1973
In the Group
Some Notes on the Pre-Dynastic Epoch
This is the Road
The Science Ficiton Hall of Fame
The Feast of St. Dionysus
Breckenridge and the Continuum
The Wind and the Rain
Getting Across
The Mutant Season
Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine
Many Mansions
1974
Capricorn Games
Trips
The Day the Founder Died
The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV
A Sea of Faces
Ship-Sister, Star-Sister
Born with the Dead
In the House of Double Minds
Schwartz Between the Galaxies
1975
The Stochastic Man (1st of 3 parts)
The Stochastic Man (2nd of 3 parts)
The Stochastic Man (3rd of 3 parts)
1976
Shadrach in the Furnace (Part One of Three Parts)
Shadrach in the Furnace (Part Two of Three Parts)
Shadrach in the Furnace (Conclusion)
1979
Lord Valentine’s Castle (Part One)
Lord Valentine’s Castle (Part Two)
1980
Lord Valentine’s Castle (Part Three)
Lord Valentine’s Castle (Conclusion)
Our Lady of the Sauropods
Waiting for the Earthquake
1981
The Regulars
How They Pass the Time in Pelpel
The Desert of Stolen Dreams
A Thousand Paces Along the Via Dolorosa
The Palace at Midnight
The Soul-Painter and the Shapeshifter
A Thief in Ni-Moya
In the Fifth Year of the Voyage
1982
Among the Dream Speakers
Gianni
Thesme and the Ghayrog
Crime and Punishment
Time of the Burning
Calintane Explains
Voriax and Valentine
The Far Side of the Bell-Shaped Curve
The Man Who Floated in Time
The Trouble with Sempoanga
Jennifer’s Lover
Not Our Brother
At the Conglomeroid Cocktail Party
The Pope and the Chimps
The Changeling
1983
Basileus
Dancers in the Time-Flux
The Election
Amanda and the Alien
Needle in a Timestack
Multiples
Homefaring
1984
Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory
The Affair
Hail to the Chief
Tourist Trade
1985
Sailing to Byzantium
Symbiont
Sunrise on Pluto
1986
Against Babylon
Gilgamesh in the Outback
Watchdogs
Blindsight
1987
The Pardoner’s Tale
The Fascination of the Abomination
The Secret Sharer
Hardware
The Iron Star
1988
At Winter’s End
House of Bones
Gilgamesh in Uruk
The Deadman’s Eyes
Hannibal’s Elephants
We are for the Dark
1989
In Another Country
To the Promised Land
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another
A Sleep and a Forgetting
Batman in Nighttown
The Asenion Solution
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Chip Runner
1990
Greenhouse Days on the High Seas
Hot Sky
They Hide, We Seek
Lion Time in Timbuctoo
The Catch
1991
In the Clone Zone
The Last Surviving Veteran of the War of San Francisco
A Tip on a Turtle
Hunters in the Forest
An Outpost of the Empire
1992
A Long Night’s Vigil at the Temple
It Comes and Goes
Thebes of the Hundred Gates
Looking for the Fountain
The Way to Spook City
The Perfect Host
1993
The Sri Lanka Position
1994
Via Roma
1995
The Red Blaze is the Morning
Hot Times in Magma City
The Dragon on the Bookshelf
The Second Shield
1996
Diana of the Hundred Breasts
The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James
The Tree That Grew from the Sky
Death Do Us Part
Crossing into the Empire
1997
Call Me Titan
The Church at Monte Saturno
Beauty in the Night
On the Inside
1998
The Colonel in Autumn
The Seventh Shrine
Waiting for the End
1999
A Killing Light
Getting to Know the Dragon
Travellers
A Hero of the Empire
2000
Pluto Story
The Millenium Express
2001
The Longest Way Home (Part one of three)
The Longest Way Home (Part two of three)
2002
The Longest Way Home (Conclusion)
The Second Wave
With Caesar in the Underworld
2003
The Reign of Terror
The Book of Changes
2004
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
The Colonel Returns to the Stars
2005
A Piece of the Great World
2006
Hanosz Prime Goes to Old Earth
The MacAuley Circuit (unpublished version)
