"Ozymandias"
by Robert Silverberg
writing as Ivar Jorgensen*
Form: Short story
Year: 1958
ID: 850
Publication history:
- 1958: Infinity Science Fiction November 1958, Magazine
- 1960: New Worlds May 1960, Magazine
- 1965: To Worlds Beyond, Chilton Hard cover book, 170 pp.
- 1969: To Worlds Beyond, Sphere Mass market paperback, 157 pp.
- 1971: To the Stars, Hawthorne Mass market paperback
- 1972: The Reality Trip and Other Implausibilities, Ballantine Mass market paperback, ISBN 345-02548-2, 210 pp.
- 1978: History of the Science Fiction Magazine 4: 1956-1965, New English Library Mass market paperback
- 1980: Invaders from Earth and To Worlds Beyond, Ace Mass market paperback
- 1996: The Road to Nightfall (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 4), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21372-4, 347 pp.
- 2002: Le Chemin de la nuit: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 1, 1953-1970, Flammarion Trade paperback, ISBN 2080682350, 727 pp., in French
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Public pressure has led to the inclusion of a small contingent of archeologists on a military exploration ship searching for anything that could lead to a strategic advantage home on Earth, where a kind of Cold War drags on endlessly. The scientific types force a delay on a planet covered with ancient ruins—nothing of military import here—or is there? Not bad for one of the earlier stories, and even a situation that bears following up on. Sequel, anyone?