A Thousand Paces Along the Via Dolorosa

Form: Novelette

Year: 1981

Publication history:

• 1981 : Twilight Zone July 1981 (m) ,
• 1984 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (hc) , Science Fiction Book Club, 243 pp., 1642
• 1984 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (hc) , Arbor House
• 1985 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (hc) , Gollancz (UK), 284 pp., 03544-7
• 1985 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (pb) , Bantam, 317 pp., ISBN 0-553-25077-9
• 1985 : Night Cry Winter 1985 (m) ,
• 1987 : Det brokiga cocktailpartyt (pb) , Korpen (Sweden), ISBN 91-7374-186-8 (in Swedish tr. Erik Andersson)
• 1989 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (pb) , Gollancz (UK), 284 pp., 04622-8
• 2000 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (ol) , Peanut Press
• 2003 : Voile vers Byzance: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 3, 1981-1987 (tpb) , Flammarion (France), 768 pp., ISBN 2080682547, 41 (in French "Un millier de pas sur la via Dolorosa")

An American scientist goes to Jerusalem to track down rumors of an ancient mushroom-cult surviving to the present day. Is his interest really scholarly, as he takes great pains to tell everyone, or is he really in search of personal transcendence, something to bring together his mess of a life? Like "The Pope of the Chimps", a fairly religious story for an atheist to write.