"Why?"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1957
ID: 1281
Publication history:
- 1957: Science Fiction Stories November 1957, Magazine
- 1958: Utopia Magazin #15 [September 1958], Magazine, in German as Warum?
- 1964: Godling, Go Home!, Belmont Mass market paperback, 157 pp.
- 1969: The Calibrated Alligator and Other Science Fiction Stories, Holt Rinehart Winston Hard cover book
- 1980: The Future in Question, Fawcett Mass market paperback
- 1980: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury, Bonanza/Crown Hard cover book
- 1983: Sunrise on Mercury, Gollancz Mass market paperback
- 1986: Sunrise on Mercury, Pan Mass market paperback, 176 pp.
- 1996: The Road to Nightfall (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 4), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21372-4, 347 pp.
- 2002: Le Chemin de la nuit: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 1, 1953-1970, Flammarion Trade paperback, ISBN 2080682350, 727 pp., in French as Pourquoi?
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Brock and Hammond are a team for the Administration of External Exploration. For eleven years, they've wandered the galaxy, examining new worlds and reporting their data back to Earth. After such a time, Brock starts getting restless, wondering why he should continue this rootless existence.