"Going Down Smooth"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1968
ID: 388
Publication history:
- 1968: Galaxy August 1968, Magazine
- 1969: World's Best Science Fiction 1969, Ace Mass market paperback
- 1970: Parsecs and Parables, Doubleday Hard cover book, 203 pp.
- 1971: Moonferns and Starsongs, Ballantine Mass market paperback, ISBN 345-02278-5, 244 pp.
- 1971: The New Tomorrows, Belmont Mass market paperback
- 1973: Parsecs and Parables, Hale Hard cover book, 203 pp.
- 1974: Introductory Psychology Through Science Fiction, Rand McNally Hard cover book
- 1977: Dertien Dwaalwegen, Meulenhoff , ISBN 90-290-0667-6, 320 pp., in Dutch as Gaat Erin Als Koek
- 1979: Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Robert Silverberg, Pocket Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-266-00597-9, 448 pp., in French as Je vous 1000110
- 1980: Galaxy, Playboy Press Mass market paperback
- 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.
- 1988: Voir l'invisible, Pocket Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-266-02713-1, 448 pp., in French as Je vous 1000110
- 1997: Ringing the Changes (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 5), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21373-2, 359 pp.
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
- 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 Je vous 1000110
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
An odd little story about an artificial intelligence programmed to treat people with mental disorders. The trouble is, it seems to have developed one of its own... Shoulda been a Twilight Zone episode.