Form: Short story
Year: 1957
Publication history:
- ???? : L’Homme Descend du Songe (pb) , Omnibus (France) (in French "La sangsue")
- ???? : Terra Extra #67 (m) , , 67 (in German "Der Empath")
- 1957 : Fantasy & Science Fiction May 1957 (m) ,
- 1959 : Science Fantasy December 1959 (#38) (m) ,
- 1962 : The Seed of Earth/Next Stop the Stars (pb) , Ace, 253 pp., F-145
- 1969 : Dimension Thirteen (pb) , Ballantine, 215 pp.
- 1970 : Special Wonder (hc) , Random House
- 1971 : Special Wonder Volume 2 (pb) , Beagle
- 1976 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (pb) , Pocket, 258 pp., ISBN 671-80282-8
- 1977 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (hc) , Sidgwick & Jackson
- 1977 : Next Stop the Stars (pb) , Ace, 144 pp., ISBN 441-57420
- 1977 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (pb) , Pocket, 258 pp., ISBN 0-671-83497-5
- 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 : Science Fiction Special #30 (pb) , Sidgwick & Jackson
- 1979 : Next Stop the Stars (hc) , Dobson, ISBN 023472143X
- 1986 : Next Stop the Stars (pb) , Tor, 213 pp., ISBN 0-812-55462-0
- 1986 : The Best of Robert Silverberg (pb) , Baen, 277 pp., ISBN 0-671-65586-8
- 1991 : A Whisper of Blood (pb) , Morrow
- 1996 : Chute dans le Réel (hc) , Omnibus (France), 1070 pp., ISBN 2258040590 (in French "La sangsue")
- 1996 : The Road to Nightfall (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 4) (tpb) , HarperCollins UK (UK), 347 pp., ISBN 0-586-21372-4
- 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 "Tant de chaleur humaine")
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Comments:
With this story, Silverberg broke into one of the most prestigious venues for science fiction, F&SF. It's a contemporary (late-fifties) story of a man with a talent for listening to people's problems, a real empathy for people and their situations. He comes to a small town, a tangled web of soap-opera proportions, and finds that being an empath isn't always safe.
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