"The Four"

by Robert Silverberg

writing as Calvin M. Knox*

Form: Short story

Year: 1958

ID: 341

Publication history:

• 1958: Science Fiction Stories August 1958, Magazine
• 1969: Dimension Thirteen, Ballantine Mass market paperback, 215 pp.
• 1982: World of a Thousand Colors,
• 1983: Sunrise on Mercury, Gollancz Mass market paperback
• 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.
• 1986: Sunrise on Mercury, Pan Mass market paperback, 176 pp.

Comments:

A population of telepathic humans live in underwater cities scattered throughout the Earth's oceans, taking refuge from the nuclear devastation that covers the land. Or does it?

Only the first magazine appearance of this story was credited to Knox — subsequent appearances have been under Silverberg's own name.

Other resources:

[None on record]