Short Works
An attempt at listing all the short
stories, novellas, novelettes, and so on that Silverberg has
written in alphabetical order (an impossible task, I know). As I
read or reread the stories I'll add a quick plot description,
critical remarks, and notes on setting, technology, and theme. I
generally avoid major spoilers, so don't be afraid.
For an explanation of the icons, see the theme page.:
(Entry structure)
Title (Year written) [Theme icons]
(collaborator) (pseudonym)
- HB: Hardback book publication info
- PB: Paperback book publication info
- M: Magazine publication info
- OL: Electronic/online publication info
- CD: CD-ROM publication info
Awards, facts, summary, etc.
- Absolutely
Inflexible
- The
Affair
- After
the Myths Went Home
- Against
Babylon
- Age
of Anxiety
- Alaree
- The
Alien Dies at Dawn
- The
Aliens Were Haters
- All
the King's Horses
- All
the Way Up, All the Way Down
- Always
- Amanda
and the Alien
- The
Ambassador's Pet
- Among the Dream Speakers
- Among
the Rememberers (aka Perris
Way)
- And
the Walls Came Tumbling Down
- The
Android Kill
- The Anvil of Time, The (aka Hawksbill
Station)
- Anything
His Heart Desires
- Appropriations
- The
Artifact Business
- As Is
- The
Asenion Solution
- The
Assassin
- At
the Conglomeroid Cocktail Party
- At
the End of Days
- At
Winter's End
- Back
from the Grave
- Basileus
- Batman
in Nighttown
- Battle
for the Thousand Suns
- The
Beast with Seven Tails
- Beasts
of Nightmare Horror
- Beauty
in the Night
- Birds
of a Feather
- Black
is Beautiful
- Blaze
of Glory
- Bleekman's
Planet
- Blindsight
- Blue
Fire
- The
Blue Plague
- Born
with the Dead
- Breckenridge
and the Continuum
- Bride
Ninety-One
- By
the Seawall
- Caliban
- The
Calibrated Alligator
- Calintane
Explains
- Call
Me Titan
- Call
Me Zombie!
- Capricorn
Games
- Castaways
of Space
- Catch
a Thief
- Catch 'Em All Alive! (aka Collecting
Team )
- The
Catch
- Caught
in the Organ Draft
- A
Certain Answer
- Certainty
- Chalice
of Death
- The
Changeling
- Chip
Runner
- Choke
Chain
- The
Chosen People
- The
Church at Monte Saturno
- Citadel
of Darkness
- The
Clone Zone
- The
Cold-Blooded Ones
- Collecting
Team (aka Catch 'Em All
Alive!)
- The
Colonel in Autumn
- Company
Store
- Constabulary
Duty
- Cosmic
Kill
- Counterpart
- Crime
and Punishment
- Critical
Threshold
- A Cry
for Help
- Dancers
in the Time-Flux
- Dark
Companion
- The
Day the Founder Died
- The
Day the Monsters Broke Loose
- The
Dead Man's Eyes
- The
Dead World
- Deadlock
- The
Deadly Decoy
- Death
Do Us Part
- Death
of an Ex-Ruralite
- Death's
Planet
- Decision
Final
- Delivery
Guaranteed
- The
Desert of Stolen Dreams
- The
Dessicator
- Deus Ex
Machina
- Diana
of the Hundred Breasts
- Double
Dare
- The
Dragon on the Bookshelf
- Dream
Girl
- The
Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV
- Earth
Shall Live Again!
- Earthman's
Burden
- The
Election
- En
Route to Earth
- An
Enemy of Peace
- Enter
a Soldier. Later: Enter Another
- Entrance
Exam
- Eve and
the Twenty-Three Adams
- Exiled
from Earth
- Eye
of the Beholder
- The
Face of the Waters
- False
Prophet
- The
Fangs of the Trees
- The
Far Side of the Bell-Shaped Curve
- The
Fascination of the Abomination
- Father
Image
- The
Feast of St Dionysus
- The Fight with the Gorgon (aka Gorgon
Planet)
- The
Final Challenge
- The
Fires Die Down
- The
Flame and the Hammer
- Flies
- Force
of Mortality
- Forgotten
World
- The
Four
- Freak
Show
- Frontier
Planet
- Fueling
Stop
- Galactic
Thrill Kids
- Gambler's
Planet
- Gate of
Horn, Gate of Ivory
- Gateway
to Terror
- Getting
Across
- Getting
to Know the Dragon
- Gianni
- Gilgamesh
in the Outback
- Gilgamesh
in Uruk
- Godling,
Go Home!
- Going
- Going
Down Smooth
- Good
News from the Vatican
- Gorgon
Planet (aka The Fight with
the Gorgon)
- The
Great Klandar Race
- Greenhouse
Days on the High Seas
- Guardian
Devil
- Guardian
of the Crystal Gate
- The
Guest Rites
- Hail to
the Chief
- Halfway
House
- Hannibal's
Elephants
- A
Happy Day in 2381
- The
Happy Sleepers
- The
Happy Unfortunate
- Hardware
- Harwood's
Vortex
- Hawksbill
Station (aka The Anvil of
Time)
- Heap Big Medicine (aka Strong
Waters)
- Heir
Reluctant
- Hero
from Yesterday
- A
Hero of the Empire
- Hi
Diddle Diddle!
- Hidden
Talent
- His
Brother's Weeper
- His
Head in the Clouds
- Hole in
the Air
- Homecoming
Horde
- Homefaring
- Hopper
- The
Horror in the Attic
- Hot Sky
- Hot
Times in Magma City
- Hot
Trip for Venus
- House
Divided
- House
of Bones
- House
Operator
- Housemaid
Number 103
- How
It Was When the Past Went Away
- How
They Pass the Time in Pelpel
- Hunt
the Space Witch
- The
Hunted Heroes
- Hunters
in the Forest
- The
Hunters of Cutwold
- The
Impossible Intelligence
- In
Another Country
- In
Entropy's Jaws
- In Gratitude (aka There
Was an Old Woman)
- In
the Beginning
- In
the Fifth Year of the Voyage
- In the
Group
- In the
House of Double Minds
- The
Incomplete Theft
- The
Insidious Invaders
- Invaders from Earth (aka We, the Marauders)
- Invasion
Vanguard
- Invisible Barriers (aka And the
Walls Came Tumbling Down)
- The
Iron Chancellor
- The
Iron Star
- Ishmael
in Love
- The Isolationist
- It Comes
and Goes
- Jennifer's
Lover
- Journey's
End (aka The Seed of Earth)
- The
Judas Valley
- The King of the Golden River (aka The King
of the Golden World )
- The
King of the Golden World
(aka The King of the Golden River)
- Kingdoms
of the Wall
- Lair
of the Dragonbird
- The
Last Surviving Veteran of the War of San Francisco
- Lazarus
Come Forth
- Leisure
Class
- Lion
Time in Timbuctoo
- A
Little Intelligence
- The
Loathsome Beasts
- The
Lonely Ones
- A Long
Night's Vigil at the Temple
- Look
Homeward, Spaceman
- Looking
for the Fountain
- The
Lunatic Planet
- The
Lure of Galaxy A
- The
Macauley Circuit
- A
Madman on Board
- Malnutrition
- Man
of Many Bodies
- A
Man of Talent
- The
Man Who Came Back
- The
Man Who Floated in Time
- The
Man Who Hated Noise
- The
Man Who Never Forgot
- The
Man with Talent
- Many
Mansions
- The
Martian
- The
Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James
- Menace
from Vega
- The
Millennium Express
- Mind
for Business
- Misfit
- Monday
Immortal
- Monsters
That Once Were Men
- The
Moon Is New
- Moon
of Death
- Mournful
Monster
- Ms Found
in an Abandoned Time Machine
- Mugwump
Four
- Multiples
- The
Mummy Takes a Wife
- The Mutant Weapon (aka The
Mutant Season )
- The
Mutant Season (aka The
Mutant Weapon)
- The
Mystery of Deneb IV
- The
Nature of the Place
- Needle
in a Timestack
- Neighbor
- Neutral
Planet
- Never
Trust a Thief!
- New
Men for Mars
- New
Year's Eve, 2000 AD
- Nightwings
- No
Future in This
- No
Trap for the Keth
- No Way
Out
- Not
Our Brother
- (Now +
n, Now - n)
- The
Nudes of Quendar III
- O
Captain, My Captain
- The
Old Man
- On
the Inside
- One-Way
Journey
- Open the Sky (aka To Open
the Sky)
- Our
Lady of the Sauropods
- The
Outbreeders
- Outcast
of the Stars
- An
Outpost of the Empire
- Outpost
Peril
- Overlord
of Colony Eight
- The
Overlord's Thumb
- Ozymandias
- The
Pain Peddlers
- The
Palace at Midnight
- The
Pardoner's Tale
- Passengers
- Passport
to Sirius
- Peeping
Tom
- The
Perfect Host
- Perris Way (aka Among
the Rememberers)
- Pirates
of the Void
- A
Planet All My Own
- The
Planet Killers (aka This
World Must Die!)
- Planet
of Parasites
- Planet
of the Angry Giants
- The
Pleasure of Their Company
(aka The Pleasure of Our Company)
- Point
of Focus
- Postmark
Ganymede
- The
Pope of the Chimps
- Precedent
- Prime
Commandment
- Prison
Planet
- The
Promised Land
- Push No
More
- Quick
Freeze
- The
Reality Trip
- Reality
Unlimited
- Reconditioned Human
- The
Red Blaze Is the Morning
- The
Regulars
- The
Reluctant Traitor
- Rescue
Mission
- Revolt
of the Synthetics
- Ringing
the Changes
- The
Rivals
- The Road to Jorslem (aka To
Jorslem)
- Road
to Nightfall
- Run of
Luck
- Run of
the Mill
- Sailing
to Byzantium
- Schwartz
Between the Galaxies
- The
Science Fiction Hall of Fame
- A Sea of
Faces
- A
Season for Remorse
- The Seed of Earth (aka The Winds
of Siros)
- The
Second Shield
- Secret
of the Green Invaders
- The
Secret of the Sham
- The
Secret Sharer
- The
Seventh Shrine
- The
Shadow of Wings
- Shadow on the Stars (aka Stepsons of Terra)
- Ship-sister,
Star-sister
- The
Shrines of Earth
- The
Silent Colony
- The
Silent Invaders
- The
Sixth Palace
- Slaughter
on Dornel IV
- Slaves
of the Star Giants
- Slaves
of the Tree
- A
Sleep and a Forgetting
- Slice
of Life
- The
Slow and the Dead
- Snake
and Ocean, Ocean and Snake
- Solitary
- Some
Notes on the Pre-dynastic Epoch
- Something
Wild Is Loose
- The
Song the Zombie Sang
- The
Songs of Summer
- The
Soul Painter and the Shapeshifter
- Sound
Decision
- Sourdough
- Spacerogue
- Spawn
of the Deadly Sea
- The Sri
Lanka Position
- Starship
Saboteur
- Stay
Out of My Grave
- The
Still Small Voice
- Stress
Pattern
- Strong
Waters (aka Heap Big
Medicine)
- Subterfuge
- Sundance
- Sunrise
on Mercury
- Sunrise
on Pluto
- Swords
Against the Outworlds
- Symbiont
- Tales
from the Venia Woods
- Thebes of the Hundred Gates
- There
Was an Old Woman
- There's
No Place Like Space
- Thesme
and the Ghayrog
- They
Hide, We Seek
- A
Thief in Ni-Moya
- 3117
Half-Credit Uncirculated
- This is
the Road
- This World Must Die! (aka The
Planet Killers)
- Thomas
the Proclaimer
- A
Thousand Paces Along the Via Dolorosa
- Three
Survived
- The
Throwbacks
- Thunder
over Starhaven
- A
Time for Revenge
- The
Time of the Burning
- A Tip
on a Turtle
- To
Be Continued
- To
Jorslem (aka The Road to
Jorslem)
- To Open
the Sky (aka Open the Sky)
- To
See the Invisible Man
- To
the Dark Star
- To
the Promised Land
- Tools
of the Trade
- Tourist
Trade
- Translation
Error
- Travelers
- The
Tree That Grew from the Sky
- Trips
- The
Trouble with Sempoanga
- Twelve
Hours to Blow!
- The
Ultimate Weapon
- The
Unbeliever
- The
Unique and Terrible Compulsion
- Unknown
Soldier of Space
- The
Untouchables
- Valley
Beyond Time
- Vampires
from Outer Space
- Vanishing
Act
- Vault
of the Ages
- Vengeance
of the Space Armada
- Venus
Trap
- Via
Roma
- Voriax
and Valentine
- Voyage
to Procyon
- The
Wages of Death
- Waiting
for the Earthquake
- Waiting
for the End
- Warm
Man
- The
Warriors of Light
- Watchdogs
- Waters
of Forgetfulness
- The
Way to Spook City
- We Are
for the Dark
- We
Are Well Organized
- We
Know Who We Are
- We,
the Marauders (aka Invaders from Earth)
- Wednesday
Morning Sermon
- The
Werewolf Gambit
- What
We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper
- When
We Went to See the End of the World
- Where
the Changed Ones Go
- Which
Was the Monster?
- Why?
- The
Wind and the Rain
- The
Winds of Siros
- The
Woman You Wanted
- A
Woman's Right
- Woman's
World
- A
World Called Sunrise
- The
World He Left Behind Him
- World
of a Thousand Colors
- The
World Outside
- Yokel
with Portfolio
- You
Do Something to Me
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