House of Bones

Form: Short story

Year: 1988

Publication history:

• ???? : Sixth Annual Collection (tpb) , St Martins
• 1989 : Terry's Universe (pb) , Tor, 234 pp., ISBN 0-812-54592-3
• 1989 : The Year's Best Science Fiction, Sixth Annual Collection (tpb) , St Martins
• 1989 : Best New Science Fiction 3 (pb) , Robinson
• 1989 : Compagnons secrets (pb) , Denoël (France), 352 pp., ISBN 2-207-30490-6, 490 (in French "La maison en os" tr. Jacques Chambon)
• 1992 : Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1) (hc) , Bantam, 546 pp., 37068-5
• 1992 : Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1) (tpb) , Bantam, 546 pp., ISBN 0-553-37068-5
• 1993 : The Secret Sharer (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 2) (tpb) , Grafton (UK), 395 pp., ISBN 0-586-21370-8
• 1994 : Future Primitive (pb) , Tor
• 1999 : Compagnons secrets (pb) , Denoël (France), 346 pp., ISBN 2207249336 (in French "La maison en os" tr. Jacques Chambon)
• 2000 : Fictionwise (ol) , Fictionwise

A very good story about a time traveler from the 21st Century who gets stranded in the Pleistocene, sort of the flip side of The Ugly Little Boy. A modern man is forced to learn primitive ways in order to survive, and discover something about what it means to be human in the process.