Form: Short story
Year: 1966
Publication history:
- 1966 : Worlds of If November 1966 (m) ,
- 1967 : Worlds of If [UK] September 1967 (m) ,
- 1969 : Dimension Thirteen (pb) , Ballantine, 215 pp.
- 1970 : The Cube Root of Uncertainty (hc) , Macmillan
- 1971 : The Cube Root of Uncertainty (pb) , Signet, 239 pp.
- 1979 : The Songs of Summer (hc) , Gollancz (UK), 173 pp., ISBN 0575025654
- 1981 : The Songs of Summer (pb) , Pan
- 1982 : Les Chants de l'Été (pb) , J'ai lu (France), 245 pp., ISBN 2277213926, 1392 (in French "A la croisée des chemins")
- 1997 : Ringing the Changes (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 5) (tpb) , HarperCollins UK (UK), 359 pp., ISBN 0-586-21373-2
- 2002 : Le Chemin de la nuit: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 1, 1953-1970 (tpb) , Flammarion (France), 727 pp., ISBN 2080682350, 32 (in French "Carrefour des mondes")
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Comments:
Franco Alfieri is a very rich man, but the best doctors on Earth can't stop the cancer eating at his body. Fortunately, there are other worlds with advanced medicine. Alfieri applies to be sent through the Fold, an interdimensional rift, to a planet where his disease can be cured. But there is a price to be paid for such a privilege, and Alfieri's wealth will do him no good at all.
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