Tom O'Bedlam
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novel
Year: 1985
ID: 1194
Publication history:
- 1985: Tom O'Bedlam, Donald I Fine Hard cover book, ISBN 0-917657-31-4, 320 pp.
- 1985: Tom O'Bedlam, QPB Trade paperback, 320 pp.
- 1986: Tom O'Bedlam, Laffont Hard cover book, ISBN 2221049055, 356 pp., in French
- 1986: Tom O'Bedlam, Warner Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-446-34002-2, 374 pp.
- 1986: Tom O'Bedlam, , 320 pp.
- 1987: Tom O'Bedlam, Futura Orbit Mass market paperback, ISBN 0708833721
- 1987: Tom OBedlam oder Der arme Tom von Bethlehem, Heyne Mass market paperback, ISBN 345300969X, in German
- 1987: Tom O'Bedlam, Heyne Mass market paperback, in German
- 1989: Tom O'Bedlam, Warner Mass market paperback, 374 pp.
- 1991: Tom O'Bedlam, J'ai lu Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-277-23111-Y, 384 pp., in French
- 2000: Tom O'Bedlam, Livre de Poche Mass market paperback, ISBN 2253072222, 414 pp., in French
- 2000: Tom O'Bedlam, E-reads Online
- 2001: Tom O'Bedlam, Olmstead Trade paperback, ISBN 1587541165, 260 pp.
- 2001: Tom O'Bedlam, Peanut Press Online
Blurb:
(from Warner 1986)
It is 2103 and Tom O'Bedlam, madman, prophet, and visionary, wanders through California, dwelling place of the last humans on a continent decimated by radioactive dust. Tom, caught up in a living vision of distant worlds ruled by godlike beings, is the herald of a new age, a herald no one wants to hear until others begin to dream of salvation beyond the stars. Yet while many dream, only Tom has the power to make the wondrous visions real, to give people the ultimate escape they desire. Across the universe they must go... if Tom is humanity's last hope — and not its final destroyer.
Other resources:
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Comments:
A post-holocaust novel that really got to me as I remember. Quite emotional in ways that so little science fiction is. I'll need to re-read it, however to make more specific comments.