Form: Novelette
Year: 1981
Publication history:
- 1981 : Best of Omni Science Fiction 2 (pb) , Omni
- 1983 : The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction (pb) , Zebra
- 1984 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (hc) , Science Fiction Book Club, 243 pp., 1642
- 1984 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (hc) , Arbor House
- 1985 : Medea: Harlan's World (tpb) , Bantam, 532 pp., ISBN 0-553-34170-7
- 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
- 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
- 1989 : Compagnons secrets (pb) , Denoël (France), 352 pp., ISBN 2-207-30490-6, 490 (in French "En attendant le cataclysme" tr. Jacques Chambon)
- 1999 : Compagnons secrets (pb) , Denoël (France), 346 pp., ISBN 2207249336 (in French "En attendant le cataclysme" tr. Jacques Chambon)
- 2000 : Fictionwise (ol) , Fictionwise
- 2000 : The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (ol) , Peanut Press
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Comments:
Written for an anthology Harlan Ellison was editing (Ellison had been asking for it since 1975--see the Medea entry for more info), and also sold to Omni.
For a thousand years, humans have lived on the planet Medea, and for five hundred they've known that gravitational forces would cause massive earthquakes and devastate the planet. In the days approaching the time of destruction, all the humans abandon Medea except one, who finds himself unable to leave his home. He makes a last tour around his world, meeting the strange natives, coming to terms with the end of life as he knows it.
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