"Blaze of Glory"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1957
ID: 100
Publication history:
- ????: Terra Extra #67, Magazine, in German as Der Held des Universums
- 1957: Galaxy August 1957, Magazine
- 1962: The Seed of Earth/Next Stop the Stars, Ace Mass market paperback, 253 pp.
- 1969: The Calibrated Alligator and Other Science Fiction Stories, Holt Rinehart Winston Hard cover book
- 1977: Next Stop the Stars, Ace Mass market paperback, ISBN 441-57420, 144 pp.
- 1979: Next Stop the Stars, Dobson Hard cover book, ISBN 023472143X
- 1986: Next Stop the Stars, Tor Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-812-55462-0, 213 pp.
- 1996: The Road to Nightfall (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 4), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21372-4, 347 pp.
- 2002: Le Chemin de la nuit: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 1, 1953-1970, Flammarion Trade paperback, ISBN 2080682350, 727 pp., in French as Aurol de gloire
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
John Murchison is a spacer with a nasty temper. The Service keeps him on because he's a wizard with gadgets. When he comes up against a planet full of peaceful aliens, sparks fly.