"Collecting Team"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1956
ID: 166
Publication history:
- ????: Utopia Zukunftsromane #499, Magazine, in German as Fangt sie alle!
- 1956: Super Science Fiction December 1956, Magazine, as Catch 'Em All Alive!
- 1957: Authentic June 1957 (#81), Magazine
- 1965: To Worlds Beyond, Chilton Hard cover book, 170 pp.
- 1969: To Worlds Beyond, Sphere Mass market paperback, 157 pp.
- 1971: Moonferns and Starsongs, Ballantine Mass market paperback, ISBN 345-02278-5, 244 pp.
- 1974: The Science Fiction Bestiary, Dell Mass market paperback, 251 pp.
- 1975: Explorers of Space, Thomas Nelson Hard cover book
- 1979: StarStreak: Stories of Space, Scholastic Book Services Mass market paperback
- 1980: Invaders from Earth and To Worlds Beyond, Ace Mass market paperback
- 1981: Alien Worlds, Heinemann Hard cover book
- 1983: Beyond the Stars, Octopus Mass market paperback
- 1988: Things Hunting Men, Baen Mass market paperback
- 1995: Bestiario de Ciencia Ficcin, Ultramar Mass market paperback, ISBN 8473864220, in Spanish
- 1996: The Road to Nightfall (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 4), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21372-4, 347 pp.
- 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 Les collecteurs
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
A spaceship lands on an unexplored planet. On board are three men: the pilot and two zoologists. Their mission is to gather animal specimens for the Bureau of Interstellar Affairs and bring them back to Earth. The planet is almost too good to be true — within minutes of their landing, more bizarre creatures than they can count are sniffing around to see what's up. It's as if they stumbled upon a ready-made zoological catalog. What could go wrong?