"Sailing to Byzantium"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novella
Year: 1984
ID: 961
Publication history:
- ????: The Year's Best Science Fiction, Third Annual Collection, St Martins Trade paperback
- 1985: Asimov's February 1985, Magazine
- 1985: Sailing to Byzantium, Underwood Hard cover book, 114 pp.
- 1985: Sailing to Byzantium, Underwood Hard cover book, ISBN 0-88733-008-8, 114 pp.
- 1986: World's Best Science Fiction 1986, DAW Mass market paperback
- 1986: Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year #15, Tor Mass market paperback
- 1986: Nebula Award Stories 21, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Mass market paperback
- 1989: Time Travelers, Ace Mass market paperback
- 1989: Sailing to Byzantium/Seven American Nights, Tor Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-812-50079-2, 183 pp.
- 1990: Purjehdus Bysanttiin, Oy Mass market paperback, in Finnish
- 1992: Pluto in the Morning Light (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Grafton Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21369-4, 396 pp.
- 1992: Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Bantam Trade paperback, ISBN 0-553-37068-5, 546 pp.
- 1992: Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1), Bantam Hard cover book, 546 pp.
- 1993: The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction - Short Novels of the 1980s, Robinson Trade paperback
- 1994: Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction, St Martins Trade paperback
- 1994: The Mammoth Book of Contemprary SF Masters, Robinson Trade paperback
- 1994: Nebula Award Winning Novellas, Barnes & Noble Trade paperback
- 2000: Sailing to Byzantium, Blackstone Audio Audio CD, ISBN 0786199059
- 2000: Sailing to Byzantium, Simon & Schuster Trade paperback, ISBN 0743407180
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
- 2003: Voile vers Byzance: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 3, 1981-1987, Flammarion Trade paperback, ISBN 2080682547, 768 pp., in French as Voile vers Byzance
- 2004: Phases of the Moon, iBooks Trade paperback, ISBN 0743498011, 623 pp.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
Winner of Nebula Award for best novella, 1985.
This is another of Silverberg's stories involving a man from our times (in this case the 1980s) living in the far future, a time of technology as magic, where the great cities of history are reconstructed for the amusement of the small population of Earth. Byzantium, Alexandria, Mohenjo-Daro, New Chicago, complete with legions of (constructed replica humans with programmed roles to play).