"Multiples"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1983
ID: 765
Publication history:
- 1983: Omni October 1983, Magazine
- 1984: The Year's Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection, St Martins Trade paperback
- 1987: The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction, Zebra Mass market paperback
- 1989: Pavane au fil du temps, J'ai lu Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-277-22631-9, 352 pp., in French
- 1992: Pluto in the Morning Light (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Grafton Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21369-4, 396 pp.
- 1992: Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Bantam Trade paperback, ISBN 0-553-37068-5, 546 pp.
- 1992: Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Bantam Hard cover book, 546 pp.
- 1997: Dying for It, Harper & Row Mass market paperback
- 1999: Pavane au fil du temps, J'ai lu Mass market paperback, ISBN 2277226319, 352 pp., in French
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
- 2003: Voile vers Byzance: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 3, 1981-1987, Flammarion Trade paperback, ISBN 2080682547, 768 pp., in French
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Picture if you will a society where multiple personality disorder is regarded, at least in some quarters, as not a disorder at all (to be cured or treated), but an interesting lifestyle, to be respected and nurtured. Of course San Francisco is the center of this new, enlightened attitude, and it is to San Francisco that Cleo comes in search of the company of multiples. Cleo herself is an ordinary singleton, but she is fascinated, even obsessed, by the rich variety and excitement in the multiple community, so she poses as a multiple, inventing alter personalities and acting out their lives. But can she pass among the real multiples? And how will they treat her if she is found out?