Many Mansions
- Form
- Novelette
- Year
- 1973
Publication history
- 1973: Unfamiliar Territory, Scribner's Hard cover book, 212 pp.
- 1973: Universe 3, Random House Hard cover book
- 1973: Universe 3, Popular Library Mass market paperback, 189 pp.
- 1975: Unfamiliar Territory, Gollancz Hard cover book, 212 pp.
- 1977: Unfamiliar Territory, Coronet Mass market paperback, 204 pp.
- 1978: Unfamiliar Territory, Berkley Mass market paperback, 207 pp.
- 1979: Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Robert Silverberg, Pocket Mass market paperback, 448 pp., in French as Des mondes en cascades
- 1981: The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, Arbor House Trade paperback
- 1981: Unfamiliar Territory, Coronet Mass market paperback, 204 pp.
- 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: Robert Adams' Book of Alternate Worlds, Signet Mass market paperback
- 1988: Voir l'invisible, Pocket Mass market paperback, 448 pp., in French as Des mondes en cascades
- 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
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise On-line
Blurb
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Comments
This is a mixture of contradictory tableaux centered around Ted, Alice, and Martin Porter. Ted and Alice have been married eleven years and pretty much detest each other. Ted contemplates suicide every night; Alice plans Ted's murder. Martin is Ted's grandfather, an old man in a nursing home who likes to fantasize about Alice. Into the situation comes the advent of time travel, and they confront the grandfather paradox
in a literal way when Alice thinks, What if I travel back and kill Martin before Ted's mother was conceived? That would make it so Ted was never born, wouldn't it? Different possible scenarios from all three characters are presented.
Other resources
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