"Neutral Planet"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1957
ID: 786
Publication history:
- ????: Utopia Zukunftsromane #452, Magazine, in German as Der neutrale Planet
- 1957: Science Fiction Stories July 1957, Magazine
- 1964: Godling, Go Home!, Belmont Mass market paperback, 157 pp.
- 1974: Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories, Thomas Nelson Hard cover book
- 1975: Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories, Abelard-Shuman Hard cover book
- 1976: Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories, Corgi Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-552-10140-0, 174 pp.
- 1982: World of a Thousand Colors,
- 1983: World of a Thousand Colors, Priam Trade paperback, 329 pp.
- 1984: World of a Thousand Colors, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-24059-5, 331 pp.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
In the galactic war with the Rigelians, every allied system counts, so Earth sends the Peccable to contact the gnorph of planet Fafnir for a treaty. But there's a Rigelian ship landing at the same time, so the two enemies must compete for the natives' favor, rather like the Federation and the Klingons did in the classic Star Trek episode .