The Man Who Never Forgot

Form: Short story

Year: 1958

Publication history:

• ???? : L’Homme Descend du Songe (pb) , Omnibus (France) (in French "L'homme qui n'oubliait jamais")
• 1958 : Science Fantasy December 1958 (#32) (m) ,
• 1958 : Fantasy & Science Fiction February 1958 (m) ,
• 1970 : Parsecs and Parables (hc) , Doubleday, 203 pp.
• 1973 : Parsecs and Parables (hc) , Hale, 203 pp., 3889-X
• 1974 : Mutants (hc) , Doubleday
• 1982 : World of a Thousand Colors (hc) , Arbor House
• 1983 : World of a Thousand Colors (tpb) , Priam, 329 pp., 493-3
• 1983 : Sunrise on Mercury (pb) , Gollancz (UK)
• 1983 : Hallucination Orbit (hc) , Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• 1984 : World of a Thousand Colors (pb) , Bantam, 331 pp., ISBN 0-553-24059-5
• 1986 : Sunrise on Mercury (pb) , Pan, 176 pp.
• 1996 : The Road to Nightfall (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 4) (tpb) , HarperCollins UK (UK), 347 pp., ISBN 0-586-21372-4
• 1996 : Chute dans le Réel (hc) , Omnibus (France), 1070 pp., ISBN 2258040590 (in French "L'homme qui n'oubliait jamais")
• 2000 : Fictionwise (ol) , Fictionwise
• 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 "L'homme qui n'oubliait jamais")

A story about the difficulties a person might face having a perfect memory. A lot of the little lies people tell ("I can't come over tonight," said the minister. "I have a sermon to write." When you remember him saying to someone else, "I've written all my sermons for the next three weeks.") would make life very difficult for you. Unless you find a way to come to terms with your gift…