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The Fire and the Sword

Frank M. Robinson

First published August 1951
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

Why there have been so many suicides of earth representatives on a planet which so perfect with so perfect and happy habitants, that it seems almost unreal? Two men are going to spend six months to find out.

Publications (11)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1951 Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1951 World Editions, Inc. MAGAZINE 122
March 1952 Imagination Unlimited Farrar, Straus and Young Anthology 395
1953 Men of Space and Time The Bodley Head Anthology
April 1959 Imagination Unlimited Berkley Books Anthology 144
January 1974 SF: Authors' Choice 4 Putnam Anthology 115
March 1974 SF: Authors' Choice 4 G. P. Putnam's Sons / SFBC Anthology 125
August 1974 SF: Author's Choice 4 Berkley Medallion Anthology 129
August 1974 SF: Author's Choice 4 Berkley Medallion Anthology 129
November 1981 A Life in the Day of ... and Other Short Stories Bantam Books Collection 50
February 2016 The Fire and the Sword Project Gutenberg Chapbook
April 2016 The 12th Science Fiction Megapack Wildside Press Anthology