"To Jorslem"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novelette
Year: 1969
ID: 1184
Publication history:
- 1969: Galaxy February 1969, Magazine
- 1969: Nightwings, Avon Mass market paperback, 190 pp.
- 1970: Nightwings, Walker Hard cover book
- 1972: Nightwings, Sidgwick & Jackson Hard cover book
- 1974: Nightwings, Sphere Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-7221-7834-4, 192 pp.
- 1974: Science Fiction Special 10, Sidgwick & Jackson Mass market paperback
- 1976: Nightwings, Avon Mass market paperback, 190 pp.
- 1978: Nightwings, Sphere Mass market paperback, 192 pp.
- 1979: Nightwings, Avon Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-380-41467-8, 190 pp.
- 1981: A Robert Silverberg Omnibus, Harper & Row Hard cover book
- 1981: A Robert Silverberg Omnibus (The Man in the Maze/Nightwings/Downward to the Earth), Science Fiction Book Club Hard cover book, 497 pp.
- 1983: Nightwings, Avon Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-380-41467-8, 190 pp.
- 1987: Nightwings, Futura Orbit Mass market paperback, ISBN 0708882358
- 1987: Nightwings, Avon Mass market paperback, 190 pp.
- 1999: Nightwings, Peanut Press Online
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
- 2000: Nightwings, Fictionwise Online
- 2000: Nightwings, Bookface Online
- 2001: Nightwings, iBooks Trade paperback, ISBN 0743474465, 218 pp.
- 2003: Other Dimensions, Science Fiction Book Club Hard cover book
- 2003: Nightwings, Mass market paperback
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
This sequel to and (Part 3 of the novel) was nominated for Nebula Award for best novella, 1969.
Finding himself again Guildless, Tomis leaves Perris, this time accompanied by the treacherous Olmayne, former Rememberer and murderer of her husand. They are bound for the holy city of Jorslem, and join the Guild of Pilgrims, wearing masks and taking on certain religious duties (Olmayne reluctantly and not very sincerely). Along the way, they meet a Surgeon in a village dying from a mysterious crystallization disease which is inevitably fatal. They do their best to comfort the unfortunates and travel on. Once they arrive in Jorslem, they apply for Redemption, a process whereby aging humans may regain their youth if they are found worthy. Tomis meets his old companion Avluela the Flier, who tells him of a great new destiny awaiting him after he is Renewed. This brings the story of Third Cycle Earth to a marvellous and satisfying close.