"The Palace at Midnight"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1981
ID: 853
Publication history:
- 1981: Omni July 1981, Magazine
- 1983: Best of Omni Science Fiction 5, Omni Mass market paperback
- 1983: The First Omni Book of Science Fiction, Zebra Mass market paperback
- 1984: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Arbor House Hard cover book
- 1984: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Science Fiction Book Club Hard cover book, 243 pp.
- 1985: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Bantam Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-553-25077-9, 317 pp.
- 1985: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Gollancz Hard cover book, 284 pp.
- 1987: Det brokiga cocktailpartyt, Korpen Mass market paperback, ISBN 91-7374-186-8, in Swedish
- 1989: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Gollancz Mass market paperback, 284 pp.
- 1990: After Armageddon, Tor Mass market paperback
- 2000: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Peanut Press Online
- 2003: Voile vers Byzance: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 3, 1981-1987, Flammarion Trade paperback, ISBN 2080682547, 768 pp., in French as Le palais de minuit
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
In this near-to-medium-future story, the United States has fragmented into myriad small nations. The foreign minister of the Empire of San Francisco gets a call that an ambassador has arrived from the Republic of Monterey and requests a meeting.