"The Changeling"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1982
ID: 155
Publication history:
- 1982: Amazing Stories November 1982, Magazine
- 1984: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Arbor House Hard cover book
- 1984: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Science Fiction Book Club Hard cover book, 243 pp.
- 1985: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-25077-9, 317 pp.
- 1985: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Gollancz Hard cover book, 284 pp.
- 1987: Det brokiga cocktailpartyt, Korpen Mass market paperback, ISBN 91-7374-186-8, in Swedish
- 1989: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Gollancz Mass market paperback, 284 pp.
- 1989: Compagnons secrets, Denol Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-207-30490-6, 352 pp., in French as La substitution
- 1991: Welcome to Reality, Broken Mirrors Hard cover book
- 1999: Compagnons secrets, Denol Mass market paperback, ISBN 2207249336, 346 pp., in French as La substitution
- 2000: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Peanut Press Online
- 2003: Voile vers Byzance: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 3, 1981-1987, Flammarion Trade paperback, ISBN 2080682547, 768 pp., in French as La substitution
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Have you ever felt like you don't know how your life got to be how it is? Like it must have been someone else who got your job, married your wife? That you're supposed to be living a very different life? By some unexplained occurrence at the ruins of Teotihuacan in Mexico, a man suddenly finds himself (apparently) in an alternate Earth, where he's a market researcher, not an art gallery owner, where he's married instead of single. Of course, he finds it hard to get anyone to believe him...