"Ship-Sister, Star-Sister"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novelette
Year: 1973
ID: 1018
Publication history:
- 1973: Frontier: Tomorrow's Alternatives, Macmillan Hard cover book
- 1976: Capricorn Games, Random House Hard cover book
- 1976: Steinbock-Spiele, Goldmann , in German as Schiff-Schwester, Sternen-Schwester
- 1978: Capricorn Games, Gollancz Hard cover book, 180 pp.
- 1979: Capricorn Games, Donning Starblaze Trade paperback, ISBN 0-915442-62-0, 176 pp.
- 1979: Capricorn Games, Pan Mass market paperback, ISBN 0330256319
- 1979: Signaux du silence, Casterman Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-203-22628-5, 242 pp., in French as Nef ma soeur, toile ma soeur
- 1986: Beyond the Safe Zone, Donald I Fine Hard cover book, 472 pp.
- 1987: Beyond the Safe Zone, Warner Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-446-30173-6, 565 pp.
- 1987: Capricorn Games, Pan Mass market paperback
- 1989: Beyond the Safe Zone, Warner Mass market paperback, 565 pp.
- 1995: Beyond the Safe Zone (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 3), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21371-6, 605 pp.
- 1995: Beyond the Safe Zone, Grafton Mass market paperback, ISBN 0586213716
Other resources:
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Comments:
The hopes of the Earth ride on a great ship hurtling through no-space. Contact is maintained by Noelle and Yolanda, telepathic twins, one on Earth, the other aboard the ship. Then, fifteen light-years away, they start to lose their connection. It seems that this general scenario has been used elsewhere, but I can't think of it right off. (Heinlein's has been suggested by a well-read visitor.) This is a very enjoyable story with a grand, cosmic ending. It has now been expanded into the novel Starborne.