The World Inside
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novel
Year: 1971
ID: 1301
Publication history:
- 1971: The World Inside, Doubleday Hard cover book
- 1972: The World Inside, Signet Mass market paperback, 174 pp.
- 1974: Les Monades urbaines, Laffont Hard cover book, ISBN 2221000374, 251 pp., in French
- 1976: El Mundo Interior, Acervo Mass market paperback, 255 pp., in Spanish
- 1976: The World Inside, Millington Hard cover book
- 1976: Ein unglücklicher Tag im Jahr 2381, Heyne Mass market paperback, in German
- 1978: The World Inside, , 188 pp.
- 1979: Les Monades urbaines, J'ai lu Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-277-11997-0, 256 pp., in French
- 1980: Binnenwereld, Centipress , ISBN 90-305-0224-X, 214 pp., in Dutch
- 1983: The World Inside, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-23279-7, 167 pp.
- 1988: The World Inside/Thorns/Downward to the Earth, Bantam Mass market paperback, 487 pp.
- 1989: Les Monades urbaines, Livre de Poche Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-253-05087-3, 256 pp., in French
- 1990: The World Inside, Gollancz Mass market paperback, 174 pp.
- 1998: The World Inside, Peanut Press Online
- 2000: Les Monades urbaines, Livre de Poche Mass market paperback, ISBN 2253072257, 256 pp., in French
- 2000: The World Inside, Fictionwise Online
Blurb:
(from Bantam 1983)
Urban Monad 116: A lofty spire a thousand stories high where 880,000 souls live out their perfectly regulated lives in peace and plenty. But inside this glorious world are a few who dare to doubt and dream:
Aurea Holston, beautiful young bride, who fears leaving the only world she's ever known;
Dillon Chrimes, cosmos group popstar, who becoes one with the urbmon in an orgiastic, mind-shattering trip;
Jason Quevedo, historian, who gets his kicks from the perverse savagery of an earlier age;
Siegmund Kluver, virile young man-on-the-way-up, who sees the nightmare behind the urbmon's shining facade;
and Michael Statler, who dares to escape...
Comments:
Many of the chapters of this book were published as individual stories, including Chapter 1, which is
. And in fact some bibliographies list this as a short story collection rather than a novel.Nominated for a Hugo in 1972 for best novel, but withdrawn by Silverberg in favor of A Time of Changes, which was also nominated that year. As it turned out, neither won.
Scottish musician Philip Jackson (under the moniker Paradox One)has released a piece of music called "Urbmon 116" inspired by this book. It's a sort of cross between electronic music and progressive space rock, available through Neurosis Records.
SciFi.com published a review in their Classics section of Issue #332.