The Pain Peddlers
- Form
- Short story
- Year
- 1963
Publication history
- (unknown): L'Homme Descend du Songe, Omnibus Mass market paperback, in French as Les colporteurs de souffrance
- 1963: Galaxy August 1963, Magazine
- 1966: Needle in a Timestack [1st Version], Ballantine Mass market paperback, 190 pp.
- 1967: Needle in a Timestack [1st Version], Sphere Mass market paperback, 190 pp.
- 1970: Needle in a Timestack [1st Version], Ballantine Mass market paperback, 1970 pp.
- 1974: Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories, Thomas Nelson Hard cover book
- 1974: Windows Into Tomorrow, Hawthorne Hard cover book
- 1975: Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories, Abelard-Shuman Hard cover book
- 1976: Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories, Corgi Mass market paperback, 174 pp.
- 1977: Dertien Dwaalwegen, Meulenhoff , 320 pp., in Dutch as De Pijnpooiers
- 1982: World of a Thousand Colors, Arbor House Hard cover book, 329 pp.
- 1982: Yesterday's Tomorrows, Berkley Mass market paperback
- 1983: World of a Thousand Colors, Priam Trade paperback, 329 pp.
- 1984: World of a Thousand Colors, Bantam Mass market paperback, 331 pp.
- 1992: Great SF Stories 25: 1963, DAW Mass market paperback
- 1996: Chute dans le réel, Omnibus Hard cover book, 1070 pp., in French as Les colporteurs de souffrance
- 1997: Ringing the Changes (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 5), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, 359 pp.
- 2002: Le Chemin de la nuit: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 1, 1953-1970, Flammarion Trade paperback, 727 pp., in French as Les colporteurs de souffrance
Blurb
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Comments
In an entertainment-intensive future, the public hungers for new sensations brought to them by a kind of cerebral implant device which allows them to relive the recorded experiences of others. One of the more popular genres is pain, the mental recordings of people dying horrible deaths. Note the similarity to the situation in Thorns and Flies
. I've also seen the general idea cropping up in more recent cyberpunk stories.
Other resources
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