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Dreaming Is a Private Thing

Isaac Asimov

First published December 1955
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

A day in the life of a man who runs a business recording dreams for the consumption of the pic.

Notes

Originally published in a shorter version in the Saturday Review of Literature, 28 May, 1955 according to Ray Lovell

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Publications (64)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1955 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1955 Fantasy House, Inc. MAGAZINE 53
May 1956 Cover S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy Dell Anthology 270
July 1956 Cover S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy Gnome Press Anthology 270
October 1957 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Doubleday / SFBC Collection 177
October 1957 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Doubleday Collection 177
October 1957 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Doubleday Collection 177
April 1959 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Bantam Books Collection 152
April 1960 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 163
May 1960 Earth Is Room Enough Doubleday Collection 177
December 1961 Earth Is Room Enough Doubleday Collection 177
1962 Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 163
October 1966 Cover New Dreams This Morning Ballantine Books Anthology 13
1967 Cover Science Fiction Inventions Lancer Books Anthology 193
1967 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 163
1967 Cover Science Fiction Inventions Lancer Books Anthology 193
November 1967 Cover SF: The Best of the Best Delacorte Press Anthology 398
1968 Cover SF: The Best of the Best Rupert Hart-Davis Anthology 398
August 1968 Cover SF: The Best of the Best Dell Anthology 398
August 1968 Cover SF: The Best of the Best Dell Anthology 398
1969 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 163
1970 Cover SF The Best of the Best Part Two Mayflower Anthology 179
April 1970 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Fawcett Crest Collection 193
April 1970 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Fawcett Crest Collection 193
1971 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 163
1972 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 163
1972 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 163
1973 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 163
1973 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Fawcett Crest Collection 193
1974 Cover Fantasy: The Literature of the Marvelous McGraw-Hill Anthology 38
1974 Cover Look Back on Tomorrow: Worlds of Science Fiction Addison-Wesley Anthology 52
1975 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 163
1976 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Fawcett Crest Collection 193
1976 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Abelard-Schuman Collection 177
January 1976 Cover Tomorrow, Inc.: SF Stories About Big Business Taplinger Anthology 135
1977 Introductory Psychology Through Science Fiction Rand McNally College Publishing Co. Anthology 446
February 1977 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther Collection 163
March 1977 Cover Tomorrow, Inc. Robson Books Anthology 135
1978 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Panther / Granada Collection 163
January 1979 Cover The Far Ends of Time and Earth Doubleday Omnibus 338
March 1979 Cover The Far Ends of Time and Earth Doubleday & Company / SFBC Omnibus 338
October 1979 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1979 Mercury Press, Inc. MAGAZINE 229
April 1980 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30 Year Retrospective Doubleday Anthology 223
April 1980 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30 Year Retrospective Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 223
1981 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Granada Collection 163
March 1982 Cover TV: 2000 Fawcett Crest Anthology 41
April 1983 Cover TV: 2000 Fawcett Crest / Ballantine Anthology 41
August 1986 Cover The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov Doubleday Collection 67
1988 Cover The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov Grafton Collection 67
January 1988 Cover The Great SF Stories #17 (1955) DAW Books Anthology 333
January 1988 Cover The Great SF Stories #17 (1955) DAW Books Anthology 333
February 1988 Cover The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov Signet / New American Library Collection 93
February 1988 Cover The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 93
1989 Cover Earth Is Room Enough Grafton Collection 163
November 1990 Cover The Complete Stories, Volume 1 Doubleday Foundation Collection 149
November 1990 Cover The Complete Stories, Volume 1 Doubleday Foundation Collection 149
March 1991 Cover The Complete Stories, Volume 1 Doubleday Foundation / SFBC Collection 149
April 1991 Cover The Night Fantastic DAW Books Anthology 147
March 1993 Cover The Complete Stories, Volume 1 HarperCollins (UK) Collection
July 1994 Cover The Complete Stories: Volume One HarperCollins (UK) Collection 213
1997 Cover The Complete Stories: Volume One HarperCollins (UK) Collection 213
1997 Cover The Complete Stories: Volume One HarperCollins (UK) Collection 213
February 1997 Cover A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 MJF Books Anthology 180
November 2023 Cover The Complete Stories: Volume One Harper Voyager (UK) Collection |213
November 2024 Cover Living Space: And Other Stories Harper Voyager (UK) Collection |213