"The Trouble with Sempoanga"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1982
ID: 1208
Publication history:
- 1982: Beyond 2, Magazine
- 1984: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Arbor House Hard cover book
- 1984: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Science Fiction Book Club Hard cover book, 243 pp.
- 1985: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-25077-9, 317 pp.
- 1985: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Gollancz Hard cover book, 284 pp.
- 1987: Det brokiga cocktailpartyt, Korpen Mass market paperback, ISBN 91-7374-186-8, in Swedish
- 1989: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Gollancz Mass market paperback, 284 pp.
- 2000: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Peanut Press Online
- 2003: Voile vers Byzance: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 3, 1981-1987, Flammarion Trade paperback, ISBN 2080682547, 768 pp., in French as Le problme de Sempoanga
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Sempoanga is a beautiful resort world with one little problem: a nasty venereal infection which requires anyone who catches it to remain quarantined there for the rest of his or her life. Scientists are working diligently to find a cure, but without success. So when you're on Sempoanga, you should be careful whom you sleep with. But of course, those kinds of things only happen to someone else.