"Something Wild Is Loose"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novelette
Year: 1971
ID: 1082
Publication history:
- 1971: The Many Worlds of Science Fiction, Dutton Hard cover book
- 1971: Mind to Mind, Thomas Nelson Hard cover book
- 1973: Earth's Other Shadow, Signet Mass market paperback, 207 pp.
- 1974: Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories, Thomas Nelson Hard cover book
- 1975: Earth's Other Shadow, Signet Mass market paperback
- 1975: Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories, Abelard-Shuman Hard cover book
- 1976: Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories, Corgi Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-552-10140-0, 174 pp.
- 1977: Earth's Other Shadow, Millington Hard cover book
- 1978: Earth's Other Shadow, Panther Mass market paperback, 222 pp.
- 1982: World of a Thousand Colors,
- 1983: World of a Thousand Colors, Priam Trade paperback, 329 pp.
- 1984: World of a Thousand Colors, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-24059-5, 331 pp.
- 1991: The Night Fantastic, DAW Mass market paperback
- 1996: Les Eléphants d'Hannibal, Denol Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-207-30579-1, in French as Martel en tte
- 1997: Ringing the Changes (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 5), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21373-2, 359 pp.
- 1997: The Science Fiction Century, Tor Mass market paperback
- 2000: Sci-Fi.com, Online
- 2001: Les Elphants d'Hannibal, Gallimard Mass market paperback, ISBN 2070417298, 365 pp., in French as Martel en tte
- 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 Martel en tte
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
A (mostly) non-corporeal life-form falls asleep on a crate on its home world and wakes up in the cargo hold of a spaceship bound for Earth. When it tries to ask for help, it finds the human crew unable to receive its telepathic communication. In fact, it gives them nightmares. When it gets to Earth, things only get worse as it frantically tries to find a way home.