"Road to Nightfall"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novelette
Year: 1954
ID: 945
Publication history:
- ????: LHomme Descend du Songe, Omnibus Mass market paperback, in French as Le chemin de la nuit
- 1958: Fantastic Universe July 1958, Magazine
- 1960: The Fantastic Universe Omnibus, Prentice-Hall Hard cover book
- 1969: Dark Stars, Ballantine Mass market paperback
- 1970: Parsecs and Parables, Doubleday Hard cover book, 203 pp.
- 1971: Eva en de Dreieentwintig Adams, Bruna , ISBN 90-229-9008-7, 156 pp., in Dutch as Op Weg naar het Einde
- 1973: Parsecs and Parables, Hale Hard cover book, 203 pp.
- 1976: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Pocket Mass market paperback, ISBN 671-80282-8, 258 pp.
- 1977: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Pocket Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-671-83497-5, 258 pp.
- 1977: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Sidgwick & Jackson Hard cover book
- 1978: Science Fiction Special #30, Sidgwick & Jackson Mass market paperback
- 1978: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Orbit Mass market paperback, 258 pp.
- 1978: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1, Gregg Hard cover book, 288 pp.
- 1986: The Best of Robert Silverberg, Baen Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-671-65586-8, 277 pp.
- 1996: Chute dans le réel, Omnibus Hard cover book, ISBN 2258040590, 1070 pp., in French as Le chemin de la nuit
- 1996: The Road to Nightfall (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 4), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21372-4, 347 pp.
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
- 2002: Le Chemin de la nuit: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 1, 1953-1970, Flammarion Trade paperback, ISBN 2080682350, 727 pp., in French as Le chemin de la nuit
- 2004: Phases of the Moon, iBooks Trade paperback, ISBN 0743498011, 623 pp.
Other resources:
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Comments:
This story was written in 1954 and rejected many times before finally seeing publication. It's a very depressing post-nuclear scenario: most of the world's agricultural regions are destroyed by radiation, and starving people resort to cannibalism as a means of short-term survival. There is no long term.