"To Open the Sky"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novelette
Year: 1967
ID: 1186
Publication history:
- 1966: Galaxy June 1966, Magazine
- 1967: To Open the Sky, Ballantine Mass market paperback, 222 pp.
- 1970: To Open the Sky, Ballantine Mass market paperback, ISBN 345-02025-1, 222 pp.
- 1984: To Open the Sky, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-24502-3, 222 pp.
- 1989: To Open the Sky, Sphere Mass market paperback, ISBN 0722178271, 208 pp.
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Comments:
Part five, the climax of To Open the Sky.
The year is 2164, about a hundred years after the founding of the Vorster church. The plans of Noel Vorst are nearing fruition, but it won't be easy to get his devoted followers to agree to the final step--reunion with the heretic Harmonist sect. By the way, the title refers to opening the sky to space travel, here accomplished by having a group of telekinetics repeatedly teleporting the ship in stages to its destination. For some reason not explained, more conventional methods of space travel outside the Solar System have proven unworkable.