"Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1973
ID: 763
Publication history:
- 1973: Ten Tomorrows, Fawcett Mass market paperback
- 1976: Capricorn Games, Random House Hard cover book
- 1976: Visions of Tomorrow, Pocket Mass market paperback
- 1976: Steinbock-Spiele, Goldmann , in German as Aus dem Taschenbuch eines Zeitreisenden
- 1978: Capricorn Games, Gollancz Hard cover book, 180 pp.
- 1979: Capricorn Games, Donning Starblaze Trade paperback, ISBN 0-915442-62-0, 176 pp.
- 1979: Capricorn Games, Pan Mass market paperback, ISBN 0330256319
- 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.
- 1987: Capricorn Games, Pan Mass market paperback
- 1989: Beyond the Safe Zone, Warner Mass market paperback, 565 pp.
- 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
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Maybe this story worked better in its original time, but this tale of social protest and time travel doesn't work anymore. That's not because of the disjointed narrative style or even the dated slang. Or maybe it is, I don't know.