"The Science Fiction Hall of Fame"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1973
ID: 969
Publication history:
- 1973: Infinity 5, Lancer Mass market paperback
- 1976: Capricorn Games, Random House Hard cover book
- 1978: Capricorn Games, Gollancz Hard cover book, 180 pp.
- 1979: Capricorn Games, Donning Starblaze Trade paperback, ISBN 0-915442-62-0, 176 pp.
- 1979: Capricorn Games, Pan Mass market paperback, ISBN 0330256319
- 1986: Beyond the Safe Zone, Donald I Fine Hard cover book, 472 pp.
- 1987: Beyond the Safe Zone, Warner Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-446-30173-6, 565 pp.
- 1987: Capricorn Games, Pan Mass market paperback
- 1989: Beyond the Safe Zone, Warner Mass market paperback, 565 pp.
- 1989: Pavane au fil du temps, J'ai lu Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-277-22631-9, 352 pp., in French as Le temple de gloire de la SF
- 1995: Beyond the Safe Zone (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 3), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, ISBN 0-586-21371-6, 605 pp.
- 1995: Beyond the Safe Zone, Grafton Mass market paperback, ISBN 0586213716
- 1999: Pavane au fil du temps, J'ai lu Mass market paperback, ISBN 2277226319, 352 pp., in French as Le temple de gloire de la SF
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
This is the story of a man obsessed by science fiction. He's read it voraciously since childhood, and collects books and magazines. He calls himself the
His friends think he's a nut, of course, to go for that aliens-spaceships-blasters sort of stuff. One can easily read this as a criticism of the kind of juvenile SF Silverberg himself had written in the 50s.