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Multiples

Robert Silverberg

First published October 1983
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

A new kind of person has been discovered. People with multiple personalities can exist in a stable way. The persons can live very different lives, look different, sound different. There are night clubs, where they gather, drink, talk, and maybe pair up and go home together. The conventional wisdom is, that both partners in a couple have to be multiples. Cleo isn't one, but she's very curious about the whole thing, and she's planning on acting like a multiple.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1984 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (22)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1983 Omni, October 1983 Omni Publications International Ltd. MAGAZINE 72
April 1984 The Year's Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection Bluejay Books Anthology 219
April 1984 The Year's Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection Bluejay Books Anthology 219
April 1987 The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp. Anthology 13
May 1992 Pluto in the Morning Light Grafton Collection 195
November 1992 The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers Bantam Spectra Collection 156
November 1992 The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers Bantam Spectra Collection 156
October 1997 Dying for It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love HarperPrism Anthology 123
February 1998 Dying for It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love HarperPrism / SFBC Anthology 123
November 2009 The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1 Secret Sharers Spectra / Ballantine Books Collection
September 2011 Multiples: 1983-87 Subterranean Press Collection 43
September 2011 Multiples: 1983-87 Subterranean Press Collection 43
December 2011 The Year's Best Science Fiction, First Annual Collection Bluejay Books Anthology
December 2012 Multiples Gateway / Orion Collection
June 2013 Multiples: 1983-87 Subterranean Press Collection
June 2013 Multiples: 1983-87 Subterranean Press Collection
July 2015 Galaxy's Edge, Issue 15, July 2015 Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick MAGAZINE |30
July 2015 Galaxy's Edge, Issue 15: July 2015 Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick MAGAZINE 12
August 2019 Needle in a Timestack and Other Stories Open Road Integrated Media Collection |12
December 2019 Needle in a Timestack and Other Stories Tantor Audio Collection |12
June 2021 Needle in a Timestack Gollancz / Orion Collection 264
June 2021 Needle in a Timestack Gollancz / Orion Collection |227.1