Solitary

Form: Short story

Year: 1957

Publication history:

• ???? : Utopia Zukunftsromane #456 (m) , (in German "Lebenslänglich")
• 1957 : Future Science Fiction Spring 1957 (#32) (m) ,
• 1958 : Nebula March 1958 (m) ,
• 1964 : Godling, Go Home! (pb) , Belmont, 157 pp.
• 1969 : Dimension Thirteen (pb) , Ballantine, 215 pp.
• 1971 : Eva en de Dreieentwintig Adams () , Bruna (Netherlands), 156 pp., ISBN 90-229-9008-7 (in Dutch "Eenzaamheid")
• 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

In the future, all the crime fighting is done by computers. After all, they can examine the facts rationally and deduce who done it better than any human. Or can they? A bored human detective sets off to solve a 30-year-old unsolved case: to find a man who escaped from a perfect prison.