Homefaring

Form: Novella

Year: 1983

Publication history:

• 1983 : Homefaring (hc) , Phantasia, 102 pp., 23-9
• 1983 : Amazing Stories November 1983 (m) ,
• 1984 : World's Best Science Fiction 1984 (pb) , DAW
• 1984 : Nebula Award Stories 19 (pb) , Arbor House
• 1992 : Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1) (tpb) , Bantam, 546 pp., ISBN 0-553-37068-5
• 1992 : Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1) (hc) , Bantam, 546 pp., 37068-5
• 1992 : Pluto in the Morning Light (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1) (tpb) , Grafton (UK), 396 pp., ISBN 0-586-21369-4
• 2000 : Fictionwise (ol) , Fictionwise
• 2000 : Sailing to Byzantium (tpb) , iBooks
• 2003 : Voile vers Byzance: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 3, 1981-1987 (tpb) , Flammarion (France), 768 pp., ISBN 2080682547, 41 (in French "Le chemin du retour")

Nominated for Nebula Award for best novella, 1983.

A man's consciousness travels to the far future and inhabits of one of the strange denizens of the world-to-be--somewhat similar to the "time-travel" scheme in Letters from Atlantis.