"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.
Other resources:
[None on record]
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
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.