"To See the Invisible Man"

Title"To See the Invisible Man"
Year for Search1963
AuthorsSilverberg, Robert(b. 1935)
Secondary TitleWorlds of Tomorrow
Volume / Edition1.1
Pagination153-62
Date PublishedApril 1963
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

1963 Silverberg, Robert (b. 1935). “To See the Invisible Man.” Worlds of Tomorrow 1.1 (April 1963): 153-62. Rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 53-64; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 5: Ringing the Changes (London: HarperCollins, 1997), 13-27; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 16-27 with an author’s note on 15-16. L, Merril, PSt

A society in which punishment is through public invisibility with a brand on the forehead to identify the person. The story focuses on a man who is sentenced to a during which no one will notice or respond to him.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 53-64; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 5: Ringing the Changes (London: HarperCollins, 1997), 13-27; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 16-27 with an author's note on 15-16; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 352-62.

Holding Institutions

DLC, L, Merril

Author Note

(b. 1935)

Full Text

1963 Silverberg, Robert (b. 1935). “To See the Invisible Man.” Worlds of Tomorrow 1.1 (April 1963): 153-62. Rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 53-64; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 5: Ringing the Changes (London: HarperCollins, 1997), 13-27; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 16-27 with an author’s note on 15-16; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 352-62. DLC, L, Merril, PSt

A society in which punishment is through public invisibility with a brand on the forehead to indentify the person. The story focuses on a man who is sentenced to a during which no one will notice or respond to him.