Form: Short story
Year: 1972
Publication history:
- 1972 : Infinity 3 (pb) , Lancer
- 1972 : The Reality Trip and Other Implausibilities (pb) , Ballantine, 210 pp., ISBN 345-02548-2
- 1973 : Unfamiliar Territory (hc) , Scribner's, 212 pp.
- 1973 : The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 (pb) , Ballantine
- 1975 : Unfamiliar Territory (hc) , Gollancz (UK), 212 pp., 01919-0
- 1977 : Unfamiliar Territory (pb) , Coronet, 204 pp., 21978-5
- 1977 : Dertien Dwaalwegen () , Meulenhoff (Netherlands), 320 pp., ISBN 90-290-0667-6 (in Dutch)
- 1978 : Unfamiliar Territory (pb) , Berkley, 207 pp., ISBN 425-03882-3
- 1978 : The Best of Robert Silverberg Volume 2 (hc) , Gregg, 2439-4
- 1986 : Beyond the Safe Zone (hc) , Donald I Fine, 472 pp., 60-8
- 1987 : Beyond the Safe Zone (pb) , Warner, 565 pp., ISBN 0-446-30173-6
- 1989 : Beyond the Safe Zone (pb) , Warner, 565 pp., 30173-6
- 1995 : Beyond the Safe Zone (pb) , Grafton (UK), ISBN 0586213716
- 1995 : Beyond the Safe Zone (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 3) (tpb) , HarperCollins UK (UK), 605 pp., ISBN 0-586-21371-6
- 2000 : Fictionwise (ol) , Fictionwise
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Comments:
It's 2103 and people can change their bodily appearance practically at will. Everyone has chosen (this month) to be sleek-skinned, athletic, blue-eyed blondes. Into this world comes a man born in 1967, with all his bodily flaws, lumpy nose, dark hair, and quaint attitudes. He's a renowned curiosity, the world's greatest novelty, and gets to have sex with many women. But popularity in this world has a price... The technological setting of the story is a bit vague outside of the body modifications, and there's no explanation how the Caliban-character got to the future.
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