"Caliban"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1972
ID: 126
Publication history:
- 1972: Infinity 3, Lancer Mass market paperback
- 1972: The Reality Trip and Other Implausibilities, Ballantine Mass market paperback, ISBN 345-02548-2, 210 pp.
- 1973: The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2, Ballantine Mass market paperback
- 1973: Unfamiliar Territory, Scribner's Hard cover book, 212 pp.
- 1975: Unfamiliar Territory, Gollancz Hard cover book, 212 pp.
- 1977: Dertien Dwaalwegen, Meulenhoff , ISBN 90-290-0667-6, 320 pp., in Dutch
- 1977: Unfamiliar Territory, Coronet Mass market paperback, ISBN 0340219785, 204 pp.
- 1978: The Best of Robert Silverberg Volume 2, Gregg Hard cover book
- 1978: Unfamiliar Territory, Berkley Mass market paperback, ISBN 425-03882-3, 207 pp.
- 1981: Unfamiliar Territory, Coronet Mass market paperback, ISBN 0340219785, 204 pp.
- 1986: Beyond the Safe Zone, Donald I Fine Hard cover book, 472 pp.
- 1987: Beyond the Safe Zone, Warner Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-446-30173-6, 565 pp.
- 1989: Beyond the Safe Zone, Warner Mass market paperback, 565 pp.
- 1995: Beyond the Safe Zone (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 3), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21371-6, 605 pp.
- 1995: Beyond the Safe Zone, Grafton Mass market paperback, ISBN 0586213716
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
It's 2103 and people can change their bodily appearance practically at will. Everyone has chosen (this month) to be sleek-skinned, athletic, blue-eyed blondes. Into this world comes a man born in 1967, with all his bodily flaws, lumpy nose, dark hair, and quaint attitudes. He's a renowned curiosity, the world's greatest novelty, and gets to have sex with many women. But popularity in this world has a price... The technological setting of the story is a bit vague outside of the body modifications, and there's no explanation how the Caliban-character got to the future.