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Beauty in the Night

Robert Silverberg

First published September 1997
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
1998 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (22)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1997 Science Fiction Age, September 1997 Sovereign Media Co. MAGAZINE 66
June 1998 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 1
June 1998 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology 1
June 1998 Year's Best SF 3 HarperPrism Anthology 151
June 1998 Year's Best SF 3 HarperPrism Anthology 151
July 1998 Year's Best SF 3 HarperPrism / SFBC Anthology 151
August 1998 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press / SFBC Anthology 1
October 1998 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 11th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology 1|3
August 2004 Phases of the Moon Subterranean Press Collection 505
August 2004 Phases of the Moon Subterranean Press Collection 505
October 2004 Phases of the Moon ibooks Collection 505
November 2004 Phases of the Moon ibooks Collection
March 2009 Year's Best SF 3 HarperCollins e-books Anthology
March 2011 Dangerous Dimensions Wonder Publishing Group Collection |5
June 2011 Dangerous Dimensions Wonder Publishing Group Collection
December 2012 The Best of Robert Silverberg: Stories of Six Decades Subterranean Press Collection 535
2013 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 1
August 2014 The Millennium Express: 1995-2009 Subterranean Press Collection |43
August 2014 The Millennium Express: 1995-2009 Subterranean Press Collection 43
November 2014 The Millenium Express Gateway / Orion Collection |43
February 2015 Phases of the Moon Gateway / Orion Collection
June 2015 The Millennium Express: 1995-2009 Subterranean Press Collection 43