Form: Short story
Year: 1963
Publication history:
- 1963 : Worlds of Tomorrow April 1963 (m) ,
- 1966 : Needle in a Timestack [1st Version] (pb) , Ballantine, 190 pp.
- 1967 : Needle in a Timestack [1st Version] (pb) , Sphere, 190 pp., 78417
- 1970 : Needle in a Timestack [1st Version] (pb) , Ballantine, 1970 pp., 02024
- 1970 : Author's Choice 2 (pb) , Berkley
- 1973 : Earth's Other Shadow (pb) , Signet, 207 pp.
- 1974 : Another Tomorrow (hc) , Pflaum
- 1975 : Earth's Other Shadow (pb) , Signet, Q5338
- 1976 : Earth in Transit (pb) , Laurel Leaf
- 1976 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (pb) , Pocket, 258 pp., ISBN 671-80282-8
- 1977 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (pb) , Pocket, 258 pp., ISBN 0-671-83497-5
- 1977 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (hc) , Sidgwick & Jackson
- 1977 : Earth's Other Shadow (hc) , Millington
- 1978 : Dark Sins, Dark Dreams (hc) , Doubleday
- 1978 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (pb) , Orbit (UK), 258 pp., 7950-3
- 1978 : The Best of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1 (hc) , Gregg, 288 pp., 2445-9
- 1978 : Earth's Other Shadow (pb) , Panther, 222 pp., 04742-5
- 1978 : Science Fiction Special #30 (pb) , Sidgwick & Jackson
- 1979 : Robert Silverberg Reads Passengers & To See the Invisible Man (lp) , Pelican
- 1979 : Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Robert Silverberg (pb) , Pocket, 448 pp., ISBN 2-266-00597-9, 5032 (in French "Voir l'homme invisible")
- 1986 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (pb) , Baen, 277 pp., ISBN 0-671-65586-8
- 1988 : Voir l'invisible (pb) , Pocket, 448 pp., ISBN 2-266-02713-1, 5032 (in French "Voir l'homme invisible")
- 1991 : New Stories from the Twilight Zone (pb) , Avon
- 1997 : Ringing the Changes (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 5) (tpb) , HarperCollins UK (UK), 359 pp., ISBN 0-586-21373-2
- 2002 : Le Chemin de la nuit: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 1, 1953-1970 (tpb) , Flammarion (France), 727 pp., ISBN 2080682350, 32 (in French "Voir l'homme invisible")
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Comments:
As punishment for his antisocial behavior, a man is sentenced to a year of invisibilty. People can still see him, but they are required by law to have nothing to do with him--no conversation, no contact, nothing. There is a fun side to being invisible--he goes to movies for free, walks into women's locker rooms, and so on, but doctors are not exempt from the law, so when he gets sick, no one will treat him. An interesting concept, this modern version of shunning, though it's hard to see how doctors could reconcile it with their Hippocratic Oath.
The vinyl LP listed above contains a recording of Silverberg reading this story along with "Passengers".
This story was adapted as a Twilight Zone episode in 1985 (episode 1.40), which I believe was first broadcast in January of 1986. It was directed by Noel Black, adapted for the screen by Steven Barnes, and starred Cotter Smith. Thanks, Jenelle, for this lead. More info can be found on this fan site or at this site.
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