"A Sea of Faces"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1974
ID: 975
Publication history:
- 1974: Universe 4, Random House Hard cover book
- 1976: Capricorn Games, Random House Hard cover book
- 1976: Trips, Calmann-Levy Mass market paperback, ISBN 2702101682, 272 pp., in French as Une mer de visages
- 1976: Steinbock-Spiele, Goldmann , in German as Ein Meer voller Gesichtern
- 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
- 1980: Trips, J'ai lu Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-277-21068-4, in French as Une mer de visage
- 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: Trips, Pocket Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-266-03180-5, in French as Une mer de visage
- 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
- 1995: Trips, J'ai lu Mass market paperback, ISBN 2277210684, 309 pp., in French as Une mer de visages
Other resources:
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Comments:
This
somehow puts the therapist into the patient's mind. The mechanics of it are not explained, only the experiences Bjornstrand has in the very strange landscape (seascape, mostly) of April's psyche. The whole thing is very disorienting and interesting, and if Silverberg had gone for the obvious thrills, he could have made the patient a serial killer and the therapist a beautiful young woman and called it The Cell and made a lot of money off a movie version. But he didn't.