"Hawksbill Station"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novella
Year: 1967
ID: 430
Publication history:
- ????: LHomme Descend du Songe, Omnibus Mass market paperback, in French as La prison temporelle
- 1967: Galaxy August 1967, Magazine
- 1968: Best SF 1967, Berkley Mass market paperback
- 1968: World's Best Science Fiction 1968, Ace Mass market paperback
- 1968: The Year's Best Science Fiction Volume 1, Sphere Mass market paperback
- 1972: The Reality Trip and Other Implausibilities, Ballantine Mass market paperback, ISBN 345-02548-2, 210 pp.
- 1975: The Gifts of Asti and Other Stories of Science Fiction, Follett Hard cover book
- 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: Criminal Justice Through Science Fiction, Franklin Watts Hard cover book
- 1977: Decade of the 60s, Macmillan Hard cover book
- 1977: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Sidgwick & Jackson Hard cover book
- 1978: Science Fiction Special #30, Sidgwick & Jackson Mass market paperback
- 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.
- 1986: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Baen Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-671-65586-8, 277 pp.
- 1990: Hawksbill Station/Press Enter _, Tor Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-812-55948-7, 184 pp.
- 1996: Chute dans le réel, Omnibus Hard cover book, ISBN 2258040590, 1070 pp., in French as La prison temporelle
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
- 2002: Hawksbill Times Two, FoxAcre Trade paperback, ISBN 0970971168, 210 pp.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
This novella was later expanded into the short novel of the same name. Political offenders are sentenced to live out their lives in the Cambrian Era. Time travel (developed in the early 21st Century) works one way only—backward—so there is no hope of release. Major themes are time, political intolerance, and personal isolation. Nominee for the best novella Nebula, 1967.