"The Mutant Season"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1973
ID: 772
Publication history:
- 1973: Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes, Follett Hard cover book
- 1973: Unfamiliar Territory, Scribner's Hard cover book, 212 pp.
- 1975: Unfamiliar Territory, Gollancz Hard cover book, 212 pp.
- 1977: Unfamiliar Territory, Coronet Mass market paperback, ISBN 0340219785, 204 pp.
- 1978: Unfamiliar Territory, Berkley Mass market paperback, ISBN 425-03882-3, 207 pp.
- 1981: Unfamiliar Territory, Coronet Mass market paperback, ISBN 0340219785, 204 pp.
- 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.
- 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:
This very short story is the kernel that sprouted into the novel of the same name. In a beachfront community, a year-round resident notices a change in the clientele who rent out the cabins along the waterfront during the holiday seasons. The new people have green skins and levitate, but so long as they don't bother anything, they're fine. But what if your daughter wanted to date one?