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Down to the Worlds of Men

Alexei Panshin

First published July 1963
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

After humanity leaves the Solar System and divides into two mutually hostile groups, huge technologically advanced generation ships and technologically backwards agrarian colony planets; an adolescent girl from one of the ships embarks on their rite of passage, which is surviving for 30 days on one of the planets.

Expanded into novel ''Rite of Passage''.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1963 Cover If, July 1963 Galaxy Publishing Corporation MAGAZINE 89
August 1982 Cover Science Fiction A to Z: A Dictionary of the Great S.F. Themes Houghton Mifflin Anthology 399
December 1983 Cover Intergalactic Empires Signet / New American Library Anthology 92
July 1988 Cover Intergalactic Empires Robinson Anthology 92
February 2020 Down to the Worlds of Men Project Gutenberg Chapbook
October 2021 Cover Down to the Worlds of Men Alpha Editions Chapbook