"Tourist Trade"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novelette
Year: 1984
ID: 1197
Publication history:
- 1984: Playboy December 1984, Magazine
- 1985: The Science Fiction Yearbook, Baen Mass market paperback
- 1992: Pluto in the Morning Light (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Grafton Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21369-4, 396 pp.
- 1992: Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Bantam Trade paperback, ISBN 0-553-37068-5, 546 pp.
- 1992: Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Bantam Hard cover book, 546 pp.
- 1996: Les Eléphants d'Hannibal, Denol Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-207-30579-1, in French as changes touristiques
- 2001: Les Elphants d'Hannibal, Gallimard Mass market paperback, ISBN 2070417298, 365 pp., in French as Echanges touristiques
- 2003: Voile vers Byzance: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 3, 1981-1987, Flammarion Trade paperback, ISBN 2080682547, 768 pp., in French as changes touristiques
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Eitel is a dealer in fine art. He makes a handsome living selling paintings and sculptures to wealthy aliens. The catch is that it's illegal. After all, Earth has only so many Leonardos, and when they're all sold off-world, what do we have left? As a further complication, in addition to being a connoisseur of artworks, Eitel is a connoisseur of fine women, which leads a simple deal with a Centauran for an obscure painting into places he never would have imagined.