"The Wind and the Rain"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1973
ID: 1286
Publication history:
- 1973: Saving Worlds, Doubleday Hard cover book
- 1973: Unfamiliar Territory, Scribner's Hard cover book, 212 pp.
- 1974: Best SF 1973, Putnam Hard cover book
- 1974: The Wounded Planet, Bantam Mass market paperback
- 1975: The Year's Best Science Fiction Volume 7, Sphere Mass market paperback
- 1975: Unfamiliar Territory, Gollancz Hard cover book, 212 pp.
- 1977: The Future Now, Fawcett Mass market paperback
- 1977: The Infinite Web, Dial Mass market paperback
- 1977: Unfamiliar Territory, Coronet Mass market paperback, ISBN 0340219785, 204 pp.
- 1978: Unfamiliar Territory, Berkley Mass market paperback, ISBN 425-03882-3, 207 pp.
- 1979: Signaux du silence, Casterman Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-203-22628-5, 242 pp., in French as Le vent et la pluie
- 1980: Dream's Edge, Sierra Club Mass market paperback
- 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.
- 1999: Bangs and Whimpers, Roxbury Mass market paperback
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
In the distant future, after humankind has spread across the galaxy, a team of technicians returns to the homeworld. Their mission: Try to make the old place habitable enough that tourists can visit it. After all the pollution that was foisted on the planet, it's pretty much a lifeless wasteland. One of the team, however, finds a strange kind of artistic beauty in the vastness and single-mindedness of the destruction.