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The Watery Place

Isaac Asimov

First published October 1956
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Polite aliens from Venus visit a distracted and brusque sheriff in Idaho.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1956 Cover Satellite Science Fiction, October 1956 Renown Publications, Inc. MAGAZINE 86
October 1957 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Doubleday / SFBC Collection 93
October 1957 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Doubleday Collection 93
October 1957 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Doubleday Collection 93
April 1959 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Bantam Books Collection 77
April 1960 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 85
May 1960 Earth Is Room Enough Doubleday Collection 93
December 1961 Earth Is Room Enough Doubleday Collection 93
1962 Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 85
1963 Con la Tierra nos basta E.D.H.A.S.A. Collection 111
1964 Cover Science fiction verhalen 3 Het Spectrum Collection 93
March 1966 Cover Geliebter Roboter Heyne Collection 69
1967 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 85
1969 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 85
April 1970 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Fawcett Crest Collection 97
April 1970 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Fawcett Crest Collection 97
1971 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 85
1971 Geliebter Roboter Heyne Collection 69
1972 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 85
1972 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 85
1973 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 85
1973 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Fawcett Crest Collection 97
1975 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 85
1976 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Fawcett Crest Collection 97
1976 Cover Espace vital Librairie des Champs-Élysées Collection 175
1976 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Abelard-Schuman Collection 93
February 1977 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 85
1978 Cover Geliebter Roboter Heyne Collection 69
1978 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther / Granada Collection 85
1979 Cover Espace vital Librairie des Champs-Élysées Collection 175
1979 Geliebter Roboter Heyne Collection 69
January 1979 Cover The Far Ends of Time and Earth Doubleday Omnibus 259
March 1979 Cover The Far Ends of Time and Earth Doubleday & Company / SFBC Omnibus 259
1980 Geliebter Roboter Heyne Collection 69
1981 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Granada Collection 85
1981 Cover Geliebter Roboter Heyne Collection 69
January 1981 Cover Sirius, #55 Vjesnik MAGAZINE 50
June 1982 Cover Meine Freunde, die Roboter Heyne Omnibus 396
1984 Geliebter Roboter Heyne Collection 69
April 1987 Cover Espace vital J'ai Lu Collection 175
1988 Cover Geliebter Roboter Heyne Collection 69
1989 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Grafton Collection 85
1990 Geliebter Roboter Heyne Collection 69
November 1990 Cover The Complete Stories, Volume 1 Doubleday Foundation Collection 73
November 1990 Cover The Complete Stories, Volume 1 Doubleday Foundation Collection 73
March 1991 Cover The Complete Stories, Volume 1 Doubleday Foundation / SFBC Collection 73
1992 Cover Cuentos completos I Ediciones B Collection 89
December 1992 Cover Cuentos completos I Ediciones B Collection 89
March 1993 Cover The Complete Stories, Volume 1 HarperCollins (UK) Collection
July 1994 Cover The Complete Stories: Volume One HarperCollins (UK) Collection 107
1997 Cover The Complete Stories: Volume One HarperCollins (UK) Collection 107
1997 Cover The Complete Stories: Volume One HarperCollins (UK) Collection 107
1997 Cover Meine Freunde, die Roboter Heyne Omnibus |2.03
August 2002 Cover Meine Freunde, die Roboter Heyne Omnibus 396
2006 Cover Meine Freunde, die Roboter Heyne Omnibus 373
September 2010 Cover Cuentos completos I Zeta Collection 103
January 2016 Cover Geliebter Roboter Heyne Collection
February 2016 Cover Geliebter Roboter Heyne Collection 100
November 2023 Cover The Complete Stories: Volume One Harper Voyager (UK) Collection |107
November 2024 Cover Living Space: And Other Stories Harper Voyager (UK) Collection |107