"Passport to Sirius"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1958
ID: 868
Publication history:
- 1958: Worlds of If April 1958, Magazine
- 1966: Needle in a Timestack [1st Version], Ballantine Mass market paperback, 190 pp.
- 1967: Needle in a Timestack [1st Version], Sphere Mass market paperback, 190 pp.
- 1970: Needle in a Timestack [1st Version], Ballantine Mass market paperback, 1970 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:
A petty government functionary grows weary of the endless war-related inflation which eats up his savings and kills any hope of advancement he ever had. So he decides to do something about it—he'll enlist in the war effort. Trouble is, they won't take him. So he forges himself a passport application and sets off for Sirius himself to do his part.