"World of a Thousand Colors"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1957
ID: 1302
Publication history:
- 1957: Super Science Fiction June 1957, Magazine
- 1969: Dimension Thirteen, Ballantine Mass market paperback, 215 pp.
- 1982: World of a Thousand Colors,
- 1983: Sunrise on Mercury, Gollancz Mass market paperback
- 1983: World of a Thousand Colors, Priam Trade paperback, 329 pp.
- 1984: World of a Thousand Colors, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-24059-5, 331 pp.
- 1986: Sunrise on Mercury, Pan Mass market paperback, 176 pp.
- 1989: Great SF Stories 19 (1957), DAW Mass market paperback
- 1996: The Road to Nightfall (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 4), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21372-4, 347 pp.
- 1997: Isaac Asimov's All-Time Favorite SF Stories Vol. 2, DH Audio Audio CD
- 1997: A Century of Science Fiction: 1950-1959, MJF Hard cover book
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
- 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 Le monde aux Mille couleurs
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
The World of a Thousand Colors is a near-mythical place, where those lucky enough to be chosen travel for...well, for something wonderful, so wonderful they never leave, but so secret nobody knows what it is. But it's great enough that some people will do almost anything to get there. Trouble is, there's an entrance exam, and it's a doozy.
The audio version narrated by Rene Auberjonois is available from Audible.com.