Hawksbill Station

Form: Novella

Year: 1967

Publication history:

• ???? : L’Homme Descend du Songe (pb) , Omnibus (France) (in French "La prison temporelle")
• 1967 : Galaxy August 1967 (m) ,
• 1968 : The Year's Best Science Fiction Volume 1 (pb) , Sphere
• 1968 : World's Best Science Fiction 1968 (pb) , Ace
• 1968 : Best SF 1967 (pb) , Berkley
• 1972 : The Reality Trip and Other Implausibilities (pb) , Ballantine, 210 pp., ISBN 345-02548-2
• 1975 : The Gifts of Asti and Other Stories of Science Fiction (hc) , Follett
• 1976 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (pb) , Pocket, 258 pp., ISBN 671-80282-8
• 1977 : Criminal Justice Through Science Fiction (hc) , Franklin Watts
• 1977 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (hc) , Sidgwick & Jackson
• 1977 : Decade of the 60s (hc) , Macmillan
• 1977 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (pb) , Pocket, 258 pp., ISBN 0-671-83497-5
• 1978 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (pb) , Orbit (UK), 258 pp., 7950-3
• 1978 : The Best of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1 (hc) , Gregg, 288 pp., 2445-9
• 1978 : Science Fiction Special #30 (pb) , Sidgwick & Jackson
• 1986 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (pb) , Baen, 277 pp., ISBN 0-671-65586-8
• 1990 : Hawksbill Station/Press Enter _ (pb) , Tor, 184 pp., ISBN 0-812-55948-7, 26
• 1996 : Chute dans le Réel (hc) , Omnibus (France), 1070 pp., ISBN 2258040590 (in French "La prison temporelle")
• 2000 : Fictionwise (ol) , Fictionwise
• 2002 : Hawksbill Times Two (tpb) , FoxAcre, 210 pp., ISBN 0970971168, 6-8

This novella was later expanded into the short novel of the same name. Political offenders are sentenced to live out their lives in the Cambrian Era. Time travel (developed in the early 21st Century) works one way only--backward--so there is no hope of release. Major themes are time, political intolerance, and personal isolation. Nominee for the best novella Nebula, 1967.