"Good News from the Vatican"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1971
ID: 396
Publication history:
- ????: Gute Nachrichten aus dem Vatikan, Moewig Mass market paperback, in German
- 1971: Universe 1, Ace Mass market paperback, 250 pp.
- 1971: Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year 1971, Dutton Mass market paperback
- 1973: Nebula Award Stories 7, Harper & Row Hard cover book
- 1973: Unfamiliar Territory, Scribner's Hard cover book, 212 pp.
- 1975: The New Awareness, Delacorte Hard cover book
- 1975: Social Problems Through Science Fiction, St Martins Hard cover book
- 1975: Unfamiliar Territory, Gollancz Hard cover book, 212 pp.
- 1976: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Pocket Mass market paperback, ISBN 671-80282-8, 258 pp.
- 1977: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Pocket Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-671-83497-5, 258 pp.
- 1977: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Sidgwick & Jackson Hard cover book
- 1977: Unfamiliar Territory, Coronet Mass market paperback, ISBN 0340219785, 204 pp.
- 1978: Science Fiction Special #30, Sidgwick & Jackson Mass market paperback
- 1978: Unfamiliar Territory, Berkley Mass market paperback, ISBN 425-03882-3, 207 pp.
- 1978: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Orbit Mass market paperback, 258 pp.
- 1978: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1, Gregg Hard cover book, 288 pp.
- 1981: Science Fiction Hall of Fame [UK] Volume 4, Gollancz Hard cover book
- 1981: Unfamiliar Territory, Coronet Mass market paperback, ISBN 0340219785, 204 pp.
- 1984: The Best from Universe, Doubleday Hard cover book
- 1986: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Baen Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-671-65586-8, 277 pp.
- 1986: Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 4, Avon Mass market paperback
- 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.
- 1989: Beyond the Safe Zone, Warner Mass market paperback, 565 pp.
- 1993: The Norton Book of Science Fiction, Norton Trade paperback
- 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
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
- 2004: Phases of the Moon, iBooks Trade paperback, ISBN 0743498011, 623 pp.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Winner of the Nebula Award for best short story, 1971, and a perennial favorite among readers.
(From Silverberg's introduction in The Best of Robert Silverberg) The story concerns the election of a robot Pope, but Silverberg gives no background or explanation for the phenomenon of robot faith, so for me there are more questions than answers. Still, it's a fun little story.