"Solitary"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1957
ID: 1079
Publication history:
- ????: Utopia Zukunftsromane #456, Magazine, in German as Lebenslnglich
- 1957: Future Science Fiction Spring 1957 (#32), Magazine
- 1958: Nebula March 1958, Magazine
- 1964: Godling, Go Home!, Belmont Mass market paperback, 157 pp.
- 1969: Dimension Thirteen, Ballantine Mass market paperback, 215 pp.
- 1971: Eva en de Dreieentwintig Adams, Bruna , ISBN 90-229-9008-7, 156 pp., in Dutch as Eenzaamheid
- 1982: World of a Thousand Colors,
- 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.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
In the future, all the crime fighting is done by computers. After all, they can examine the facts rationally and deduce who done it better than any human. Or can they? A bored human detective sets off to solve a 30-year-old unsolved case: to find a man who escaped from a perfect prison.