Form: Short story
Year: 1982
Publication history:
- 1982 : Amazing Stories November 1982 (m) ,
- 1984 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (hc) , Science Fiction Book Club, 243 pp., 1642
- 1984 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (hc) , Arbor House
- 1985 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (hc) , Gollancz (UK), 284 pp., 03544-7
- 1985 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (pb) , Bantam, 317 pp., ISBN 0-553-25077-9
- 1987 : Det brokiga cocktailpartyt (pb) , Korpen (Sweden), ISBN 91-7374-186-8 (in Swedish tr. Erik Andersson)
- 1989 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (pb) , Gollancz (UK), 284 pp., 04622-8
- 1989 : Compagnons secrets (pb) , Denoël (France), 352 pp., ISBN 2-207-30490-6, 490 (in French "La substitution" tr. Jacques Chambon)
- 1991 : Welcome to Reality (hc) , Broken Mirrors
- 1999 : Compagnons secrets (pb) , Denoël (France), 346 pp., ISBN 2207249336 (in French "La substitution" tr. Jacques Chambon)
- 2000 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (ol) , Peanut Press
- 2003 : Voile vers Byzance: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 3, 1981-1987 (tpb) , Flammarion (France), 768 pp., ISBN 2080682547, 41 (in French "La substitution")
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Comments:
Have you ever felt like you don't know how your life got to be how it is? Like it must have been someone else who got your job, married your wife? That you're supposed to be living a very different life? By some unexplained occurrence at the ruins of Teotihuacan in Mexico, a man suddenly finds himself (apparently) in an alternate Earth, where he's a market researcher, not an art gallery owner, where he's married instead of single. Of course, he finds it hard to get anyone to believe him...
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