@booklet {2608, title = {"In the Group"}, howpublished = {Eros in Orbit: A Collection of All New Science-Fiction Stories About Sex}, year = {1973}, note = {

Rpt. in Penthouse 4.9 (May 1973): 80-82, 122, 124, 126, 128; in The Shape of Sex to Come. Ed. Douglas Hill (London: Pan Books, 1978), 12-29; in Beyond the Safe Zone: Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1986), 124-36; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 3: Beyond the Safe Zone (London: HarperCollins, 1994), 146-62; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Four: Trips: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009), 14-28 with an author\’s note on 13.

}, month = {1973}, pages = {87-105}, publisher = {Trident Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia from the perspective of the protagonist. It is possible to teleport anywhere in the world, but closeness and emotion are considered atavisms. It is only acceptable to love Us, not an individual. In the Group one feels the sensations of a couple having sex and the experiences and responses of those who are experiencing their actions.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Silverberg (b. 1935)}, editor = {Joseph Elder} }