The Reality Trip
- Form
- Short story
- Year
- 1970
Publication history
- (unknown): L'Homme Descend du Songe, Omnibus Mass market paperback, in French as Trip dans le rel
- 1970: Worlds of If May 1970, Magazine
- 1972: The Reality Trip and Other Implausibilities, Ballantine Mass market paperback, 210 pp.
- 1972: This Side of Infinity, Ace Mass market paperback
- 1973: Best from If, Volume I, Award Mass market paperback
- 1979: Needle in a Timestack [2nd Version], Sphere Mass market paperback, 149 pp.
- 1979: Signaux du silence, Casterman Mass market paperback, 242 pp., in French as Trip dans le rel
- 1980: Aliens!, Pocket Mass market paperback
- 1985: Needle in a Timestack [2nd Version], Ace Mass market paperback, 180 pp.
- 1986: Worlds of If: A Retrospecitve Anthology, Bluejay Mass market paperback
- 1996: Chute dans le réel, Omnibus Hard cover book, 1070 pp., in French as Trip dans le rel
- 1997: Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex, Ace Mass market paperback
- 1997: Ringing the Changes (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 5), HarperCollins UK Trade paperback, 359 pp.
- 2000: Aliens Among Us, Ace Mass market paperback, 292 pp.
- 2002: Le Chemin de la nuit: Nouvelles au fil du temps, tome 1, 1953-1970, Flammarion Trade paperback, 727 pp., in French as Trip dans le rel
Blurb
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Comments
A different take on the aliens-are-among-us theme: an alien observer disguised as human becomes the object of a woman's amorous attention. The setting is New York around 1970, and the alien has the ability to communicate with his homeworld easily. Personal isolation (alienation even) is the main theme. Warning: this story contains some excruciatingly bad poetry written by the smitten woman. Proceed at your own risk!
Other resources
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