Form: Short story
Year: 1983
Publication history:
- 1983 : Omni October 1983 (m) ,
- 1984 : The Year's Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection (tpb) , St Martins
- 1987 : The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction (pb) , Zebra
- 1989 : Pavane au fil du temps (pb) , J'ai lu (France), 352 pp., ISBN 2-277-22631-9, 2631 (in French tr. Pierre K. Rey)
- 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
- 1992 : Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1) (tpb) , Bantam, 546 pp., ISBN 0-553-37068-5
- 1997 : Dying for It (pb) , Harper & Row
- 1999 : Pavane au fil du temps (pb) , J'ai lu (France), 352 pp., ISBN 2277226319, 2631 (in French tr. Pierre K. Rey)
- 2000 : Fictionwise (ol) , Fictionwise
- 2003 : Voile vers Byzance: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 3, 1981-1987 (tpb) , Flammarion (France), 768 pp., ISBN 2080682547, 41 (in French)
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Comments:
Picture if you will a society where multiple personality disorder is regarded, at least in some quarters, as not a disorder at all (to be cured or treated), but an interesting lifestyle, to be respected and nurtured. Of course San Francisco is the center of this new, enlightened attitude, and it is to San Francisco that Cleo comes in search of the
company of multiples. Cleo herself is an ordinary singleton, but she is fascinated, even
obsessed, by the rich variety and excitement in the multiple community, so she poses as a multiple, inventing alter personalities and acting out their lives. But can she pass among the real multiples? And how will they treat her if she is found out?
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