Breckenridge and the Continuum
- Form
- Novelette
- Year
- 1973
Publication history
- 1973: Showcase, Harper & Row Hard cover book
- 1974: The Best Science Fiction of the Year Vol. 3, Ballantine Mass market paperback
- 1976: Capricorn Games, Random House Hard cover book
- 1976: Steinbock-Spiele, Goldmann , in German as Breckenridge und das Kontinuum
- 1977: Dertien Dwaalwegen, Meulenhoff , 320 pp., in Dutch as Breckinridge en het Continum
- 1977: Galactic Dreamers, Random House Hard cover book
- 1978: The Best of Robert Silverberg Volume 2, Gregg Hard cover book
- 1978: Capricorn Games, Gollancz Hard cover book, 180 pp.
- 1979: Capricorn Games, Donning Starblaze Trade paperback, 176 pp.
- 1979: Capricorn Games, Pan Mass market paperback
- 1986: Beyond the Safe Zone, Donald I Fine Hard cover book, 472 pp.
- 1987: Beyond the Safe Zone, Warner Mass market paperback, 565 pp.
- 1987: Capricorn Games, Pan Mass market paperback
- 1989: Beyond the Safe Zone, Warner Mass market paperback, 565 pp.
- 1995: Beyond the Safe Zone (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 3), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, 605 pp.
- 1995: Beyond the Safe Zone, Grafton Mass market paperback
- 1998: Voyage au bout de l'esprit, Omnibus Mass market paperback, 904 pp., in French as Breckenridge et le continuum
Blurb
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Comments
This is one of a set of stories written in the early 70s when Silverberg was really trying to reach beyond conventional storytelling. After reading the entertaining and interesting narrative, you are left with little idea what actually
happened. There is not a plot in the everyday sense (A happened, then B, etc). Breckenridge is a successful New York
stockbroker who was born in 1940 and is going through an existential crisis of the Is this
all there is to life?
variety. He's also exploring a far-future wasteland with a group of
archeologists, searching for a lost city. There are numerous interlocking themes in
common between the two lines of action, many of which are stated explicitly in charts in
the text. The richness of detail in both stories is fascinating, and the wasteland setting
could easily be revisited in other stories.
Other resources
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