Form: Novelette
Year: 1974
Publication history:
- ???? : Tous les chemins mènent à l'homme (pb) , Omnibus (France) (in French "Schwartz et les galaxies")
- 1974 : Stellar 1 (pb) , Ballantine
- 1975 : The Feast of St. Dionysus (hc) , Scribner's
- 1976 : SF Monthly Volume 3 #3 [April 1976] (m) ,
- 1976 : The Feast of St. Dionysus (hc) , Gollancz (UK), 255 pp., 02193-4
- 1976 : Trips (pb) , Calmann-Levy (France), 272 pp., ISBN 2702101682, 23 (in French "Schwartz et les galaxies" tr. Jacques Chambon)
- 1978 : Perilous Planets (pb) , Weidenfeld Nicolson
- 1978 : The Best of Robert Silverberg Volume 2 (hc) , Gregg, 2439-4
- 1979 : The Feast of St. Dionysus (pb) , Berkley, 210 pp., ISBN 0-425-04174-3
- 1979 : Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Robert Silverberg (pb) , Pocket, 448 pp., ISBN 2-266-00597-9, 5032 (in French "Schwartz et les galaxies")
- 1980 : Trips (pb) , J'ai lu (France), ISBN 2-277-21068-4, 1068 (in French "Schwartz et les galaxies")
- 1986 : Beyond the Safe Zone (hc) , Donald I Fine, 472 pp., 60-8
- 1987 : The Feast of St. Dionysus (pb) , New English Library, 255 pp., 42160-0
- 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 "Schwartz et les galaxies")
- 1989 : Beyond the Safe Zone (pb) , Warner, 565 pp., 30173-6
- 1989 : Trips (pb) , Pocket, ISBN 2-266-03180-5, 5353 (in French "Schwartz et les galaxies" tr. Jacques Chambon)
- 1995 : Trips (pb) , J'ai lu (France), 309 pp., ISBN 2277210684, 1068 (in French "Schwartz et les galaxies" tr. Jacques Chambon)
- 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
- 1998 : Tales in Space (pb) , White Wolf
- 1998 : Voyage au bout de l'esprit (pb) , Omnibus (France), 904 pp., ISBN 2258049202 (in French "Schwartz et les galaxies")
- 2000 : Fictionwise (ol) , Fictionwise
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Comments:
It's not easy to be an anthropologist in the 21st Century. All the primitive cultures are gone, assimilated into a neo-Western global socio-economic sameness. Professor Thomas Schwartz is that useless anthropologist, globe-hopping from lecture to lecture, from Montevideo to Port Moresby, New Guinea, and all the cities are the same. But in his fantasies, he travels on a great interstellar liner surrounded by the representatives of many alien cultures--something to study!
A thoughtful rumination on the possible demise of cultural diversity written for Judy-Lynn del Rey's first Stellar anthology. The story was a conscious effort at 1950s-style "conservative" storytelling, and earned a Hugo nomination.
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