Going
- Form
- Novella
- Year
- 1971
Publication history
- 1971: Four Futures, Hawthorne Hard cover book
- 1974: Born with the Dead, Random House Hard cover book, 267 pp.
- 1975: Born with the Dead, Vintage Mass market paperback, 257 pp.
- 1976: Trips, Calmann-Levy Mass market paperback, 272 pp., in French as Partie
- 1977: Born with the Dead, Coronet Mass market paperback, 219 pp.
- 1978: Born with the Dead, Gollancz Hard cover book, 267 pp.
- 1979: Born with the Dead, Berkley Mass market paperback, 242 pp.
- 1979: Mit den Toten geboren, Heyne , in German as Der Heimgang
- 1980: Trips, J'ai lu Mass market paperback, in French as Partir
- 1984: Born with the Dead, Bantam Mass market paperback, 246 pp.
- 1988: The Masks of Time/Born with the Dead/Dying Inside, Bantam Mass market paperback, 561 pp.
- 1989: Trips, Pocket Mass market paperback, in French as Partir
- 1995: Trips, J'ai lu Mass market paperback, 309 pp., in French as Partie
- 2001: Born with the Dead, Peanut Press On-line
Blurb
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Comments
Based on a scenario by Isaac Asimov. R.A.Lafferty, Harry Harrison, and Alexei Panshin also contributed to Four Futures.
Medical advances lead to longer and longer lives, but babies are still being born. As part of a philosophy of population control, a kind of ritualized suicide (complete with counseling and final requests) called Going
is favored by people who feel they've done enough for one lifetime. They willingly depart, making room for the next generation. It's 2095, and composer Henry Stuant, at a well-preserved 136, suddenly decides it's time to Go. He's written his last string quartet, published his last commentary, traveled everywhere he ever wanted to go, done everything he could want to do. But when it comes down to it, why can't he let go? A moving story, rather unlike Silverberg's more usual avoidance-of-death scenarios, which deserves to be counted among his best work of the 70s.
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