"Caught in the Organ Draft"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1972
ID: 147
Publication history:
- 1972: And Walk Now Gently through the Fire, Chilton Hard cover book
- 1973: Unfamiliar Territory, Scribner's Hard cover book, 212 pp.
- 1973: Vertex April 1973, Magazine
- 1974: Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories, Thomas Nelson Hard cover book
- 1974: Wondermakers 2, Fawcett Mass market paperback, ISBN 449-00635, 320 pp.
- 1975: Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories, Abelard-Shuman Hard cover book
- 1975: Unfamiliar Territory, Gollancz Hard cover book, 212 pp.
- 1976: Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories, Corgi Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-552-10140-0, 174 pp.
- 1976: You and Science Fiction, National Textbook Co. Hard cover book
- 1977: Dertien Dwaalwegen, Meulenhoff , ISBN 90-290-0667-6, 320 pp., in Dutch as Orgaanverplichtig
- 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: Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Robert Silverberg, Pocket Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-266-00597-9, 448 pp., in French as Bon pour le service des organes
- 1981: Unfamiliar Territory, Coronet Mass market paperback, ISBN 0340219785, 204 pp.
- 1983: Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Hard cover book
- 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.
- 1988: Voir l'invisible, Pocket Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-266-02713-1, 448 pp., in French as Bon pour le service des organes
- 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
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
An early example of the now-common organ-transplants-gone-awry genre. In a society controlled by powerful old men (like ours), young, healthy citizens have their organs requisitioned to prolong the lives of seniors. Setting is not too far future, with no noticeable technology aside from widespread transplantation and some artificial organs.