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Cold Friend

Harlan Ellison

First published October 1973
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A man who has died awakens to find that the universe has vanished except for the chunk around the hospital, and he is the only person existing.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1973 Cover Galaxy, October 1973 UPD Publishing Corporation MAGAZINE 70
October 1973 Cover Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, October 1973 Universal-Tandem Publishing Company Ltd. MAGAZINE 70
March 1974 Cover The Best from Galaxy, Volume II Award Books Anthology 111
December 1974 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Walker & Co. Collection 45
December 1974 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Walker & Co. / SFBC Collection 37
December 1974 Cover Galaxie, Décembre 1974 OPTA MAGAZINE 124
1976 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Millington Collection 32
January 1976 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Signet / New American Library Collection 32
January 1976 Cover Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 32
October 1977 Cover Approaching Oblivion Pan Books Collection 32
March 1979 Cover Science-Fiction-Stories 75 Ullstein Anthology 42
March 1980 Cover Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction Playboy Press Anthology 326
July 1980 Cover Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction Playboy Press / SFBC Anthology 339
1981 Cover Approaching Oblivion Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 32
March 1981 Cover Approaching Oblivion Signet / New American Library Collection 32
April 1981 Cover Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction Wideview Books Anthology 326
November 1981 Cover Galaxy: Volume 2 Playboy Paperbacks Anthology 105
1982 Cover Sterren van Galaxy III Centripress Anthology 163
May 1985 Cover Approaching Oblivion Bluejay Books Collection 43
1989 Cover Approaching Oblivion Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Collection 38
May 2009 Cover Approaching Oblivion e-reads.com Collection |32
March 2012 Cover Approaching Oblivion Gateway / Orion Collection
April 2014 Cover Approaching Oblivion Open Road Integrated Media Collection |32
June 2014 Cover Approaching Oblivion Open Road Integrated Media Collection |32
January 2020 Cover The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World and Other Works Recorded Books Omnibus |2032