"All the Way Up, All the Way Down"

by Robert Silverberg

Form: Novelette

Year: 1971

ID: 29

Publication history:

• 1971: Galaxy July 1971, Magazine
• 1971: The World Inside, Doubleday Hard cover book
• 1972: The World Inside, Signet Mass market paperback, 174 pp.
• 1983: The World Inside, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-23279-7, 167 pp.

Comments:

This story forms Chapter 3 of The World Inside.

Dillon Chrimes is a well-known musician in Urban Monad 116. He plays the vibrastar (a sort of combination planetarium projector and music synthesizer) in a cosmos band. One night, after a performance, he decides to take a drug which allows him to feel at one with everyone who lives in the building, all 810,000 of them.

Other resources:

[None on record]