Journey's End

Form: Short story

Year: 1958

Publication history:

• 1958 : Super Science Fiction April 1958 (m) , ( "The Seed of Earth")
• 1969 : Dimension Thirteen (pb) , Ballantine, 215 pp.
• 1971 : Eva en de Dreieentwintig Adams () , Bruna (Netherlands), 156 pp., ISBN 90-229-9008-7 (in Dutch "Het Einde van de Reis")
• 1982 : World of a Thousand Colors (hc) , Arbor House
• 1983 : World of a Thousand Colors (tpb) , Priam, 329 pp., 493-3
• 1984 : World of a Thousand Colors (pb) , Bantam, 331 pp., ISBN 0-553-24059-5

The natives have arisen and killed off many of the human colonists, and one of the survivors goes in search of a certain native village where there's a certain native girl…

The editor of Super-Science Fiction renamed the story "The Seed of Earth", apparently without Silverberg's knowledge. Silverberg liked the title so much, he later used it himself for a novel unrelated to this story.