"Translation Error"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novelette
Year: 1959
ID: 1201
Publication history:
- ????: Terra SF #459, Magazine, in German as Nur ein kleiner Versetzungsfehler
- 1959: Astounding Science Fiction March 1959, Magazine
- 1970: The Cube Root of Uncertainty, Macmillan Hard cover book
- 1970: Worlds of Maybe, Thomas Nelson Hard cover book
- 1971: The Cube Root of Uncertainty, Signet Mass market paperback, 239 pp.
- 1974: Transformations II, Fawcett Mass market paperback
- 1974: Worlds of Maybe, Dell Mass market paperback, ISBN 440-08603, 208 pp.
- 1979: Needle in a Timestack [2nd Version], Sphere Mass market paperback, 149 pp.
- 1985: Needle in a Timestack [2nd Version], Ace Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-441-56872-6, 180 pp.
- 1994: Le Nez de Cloptre, Denol Hard cover book, ISBN 2207241912, 314 pp., in French as Le Trait de Dsseldorf
- 2000: Le Nez de Cloptre, Denol Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-207-25001-6, 320 pp., in French as Le Trait de Dsseldorf
- 2001: Le Nez de Cloptre, Gallimard Mass market paperback, ISBN 2070420760, 343 pp., in French as Le Trait de Dsseldorf
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Manipulating primitive races isn't easy. Especially when the race in question is Homo sapiens of Earth. When an agent of the Hethivarian Network returns to Earth 50 years after trying to maneuver human history out of premature space travel, he finds that things are not the way he expected them to be. Throw in the existence of variant parallel Earths, and it gets messy real fast.