Waiting for the Earthquake
- Form
- Novelette
- Year
- 1981
Publication history
- 1981: Best of Omni Science Fiction 2, Omni Mass market paperback
- 1983: The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction, Zebra Mass market paperback
- 1984: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Arbor House Hard cover book
- 1984: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Science Fiction Book Club Hard cover book, 243 pp.
- 1985: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Bantam Mass market paperback, 317 pp.
- 1985: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Gollancz Hard cover book, 284 pp.
- 1985: Medea: Harlan's World, Bantam Trade paperback, 532 pp.
- 1987: Det brokiga cocktailpartyt, Korpen Mass market paperback, in Swedish
- 1989: Compagnons secrets, Denol Mass market paperback, 352 pp., in French as En attendant le cataclysme
- 1989: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Gollancz Mass market paperback, 284 pp.
- 1999: Compagnons secrets, Denol Mass market paperback, 346 pp., in French as En attendant le cataclysme
- 2000: The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party, Peanut Press On-line
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise On-line
Blurb
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Comments
Written for an anthology Harlan Ellison was editing (Ellison had been asking for it since 1975—see the Medea entry for more info), and also sold to Omni.
For a thousand years, humans have lived on the planet Medea, and for five hundred they've known that gravitational forces would cause massive earthquakes and devastate the planet. In the days approaching the time of destruction, all the humans abandon Medea except one, who finds himself unable to leave his home. He makes a last tour around his world, meeting the strange natives, coming to terms with the end of life as he knows it.
Other resources
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