"Slaves of the Star Giants"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novella
Year: 1956
ID: 1066
Publication history:
- ????: Terra Extra #67, Magazine, in German as Die Sternriesen
- 1957: Science Fiction Adventures February 1957, Magazine
- 1962: The Seed of Earth/Next Stop the Stars, Ace Mass market paperback, 253 pp.
- 1977: Next Stop the Stars, Ace Mass market paperback, ISBN 441-57420, 144 pp.
- 1979: Next Stop the Stars, Dobson Hard cover book, ISBN 023472143X
- 1986: Next Stop the Stars, Tor Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-812-55462-0, 213 pp.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
A surprisingly enjoyable story from the early years. Lloyd Harkins is an electronic technician from 1956 who suddenly finds himself in the far future, in a world where small primitive bands of people live in a post-holocaust Earth with gigantic aliens and robots roaming around. The interpersonal relationships are a little shallow, but not completely cardboard. And while I generally don't care for modern-man-unexpectedly-thrown-into-the-future stories (of which Silverberg has written quite a few), this one is fun.