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Against Babylon

Robert Silverberg

First published May 1986
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Notes


Silverberg states in The Best of Robert Silverberg: Stories of Six Decades that he used three prior stories, renaming the characters, as the basis for the The Alien Years (1998): "Against Babylon" (1986) - almost entirely as opening chapters; "Hannibal's Elephants" (1988) - small piece in one of the early sequences; and "The Pardoner's Tale" (1987) - nearly all in later part of book. He also states that he later carved out three new stories from the novel: "Beauty in the Night" (1997), "On the Inside" (1998), and "The Colonel in Autumn" (1998).

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1987 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (18)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1986 Omni, May 1986 Omni Publications International Ltd. MAGAZINE 86
May 1987 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology 115
May 1987 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology 115
June 1987 The 1987 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books Anthology 263
June 1987 The 1987 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books Anthology 263
July 1987 The 1987 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books / SFBC Anthology 234
August 1987 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction Robinson Anthology 115
August 1987 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction Robinson Anthology 115
May 1992 Pluto in the Morning Light Grafton Collection 216
November 1992 The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers Bantam Spectra Collection 174
November 1992 The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers Bantam Spectra Collection 174
July 1994 Omni Visions Two OMNI Books Anthology 1
November 2009 The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1 Secret Sharers Spectra / Ballantine Books Collection
September 2011 Multiples: 1983-87 Subterranean Press Collection 63
September 2011 Multiples: 1983-87 Subterranean Press Collection 63
December 2012 Multiples Gateway / Orion Collection
June 2013 Multiples: 1983-87 Subterranean Press Collection
June 2013 Multiples: 1983-87 Subterranean Press Collection