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Hannibal's Elephants

Robert Silverberg

First published October 1988
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
1989 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (15)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1988 Omni, October 1988 Omni Publications International Ltd. MAGAZINE 83
May 1992 Pluto in the Morning Light Grafton Collection 347
November 1992 The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers Bantam Spectra Collection 287
November 1992 The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers Bantam Spectra Collection 287
November 2009 The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1 Secret Sharers Spectra / Ballantine Books Collection
September 2011 Multiples: 1983-87 Subterranean Press Collection 193
September 2011 Multiples: 1983-87 Subterranean Press Collection 193
December 2012 Multiples Gateway / Orion Collection
June 2013 Multiples: 1983-87 Subterranean Press Collection
June 2013 Multiples: 1983-87 Subterranean Press Collection
October 2013 Unidentified Funny Objects 2 UFO Publishing Anthology
October 2013 Unidentified Funny Objects 2 UFO Publishing Anthology 267
March 2017 Little Green Men—Attack! Baen Books Anthology 247
March 2017 Little Green Men—Attack! Baen Books Anthology |19
February 2018 Little Green Men—Attack! Baen Books Anthology