Form: Novelette
Year: 1973
Publication history:
- 1973 : Universe 3 (hc) , Random House
- 1973 : Unfamiliar Territory (hc) , Scribner's, 212 pp.
- 1975 : Unfamiliar Territory (hc) , Gollancz (UK), 212 pp., 01919-0
- 1977 : Unfamiliar Territory (pb) , Coronet, 204 pp., 21978-5
- 1978 : Unfamiliar Territory (pb) , Berkley, 207 pp., ISBN 425-03882-3
- 1979 : Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Robert Silverberg (pb) , Pocket, 448 pp., ISBN 2-266-00597-9, 5032 (in French "Des mondes en cascades")
- 1981 : The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (tpb) , Arbor House
- 1986 : Beyond the Safe Zone (hc) , Donald I Fine, 472 pp., 60-8
- 1987 : Robert Adams' Book of Alternate Worlds (pb) , Signet
- 1987 : Beyond the Safe Zone (pb) , Warner, 565 pp., ISBN 0-446-30173-6
- 1988 : Voir l'invisible (pb) , Pocket, 448 pp., ISBN 2-266-02713-1, 5032 (in French "Des mondes en cascades")
- 1989 : Beyond the Safe Zone (pb) , Warner, 565 pp., 30173-6
- 1995 : Beyond the Safe Zone (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 3) (tpb) , HarperCollins UK (UK), 605 pp., ISBN 0-586-21371-6
- 1995 : Beyond the Safe Zone (pb) , Grafton (UK), ISBN 0586213716
- 2000 : Fictionwise (ol) , Fictionwise
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Comments:
This is a mixture of contradictory tableaux centered around Ted, Alice, and Martin Porter. Ted and Alice have been married eleven years and pretty much detest each other. Ted contemplates suicide every night, Alice plans Ted's murder. Martin is Ted's grandfather, an old man in a nursing home who likes to fantasize about Alice. Into the situation comes the advent of time travel, and they confront the "grandfather paradox" in a literal way. Alice thinks, What if I travel back and kill Martin before Ted's mother was conceived? That would make it so Ted was never born, wouldn't it? Different possible scenarios from all three characters are presented.
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