Title: The Sixth Palace

Title: The Sixth Palace Title Record # 52448
Author: Robert Silverberg
Date: 1965-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Synopsis: A legendary collection of treasure is guarded by a robot that asks game-show-style questions to visitors to decide if they're allowed in. So far, everyone who tried has been killed, but one man decides to risk a novel approach.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1965	Italian	Il sesto palazzo
1965	French	Le robot gardien
1974	Portuguese	O sexto palácio
1974^ⓘTranslated by René Lathière	French	Le sixième palais^?Le sixieme palais
1975^ⓘTranslated by Tony Westermayr	German	Der sechste Palast
1977^ⓘTranslated by Beatriz Podestá.	Spanish	El sexto palacio
1980^ⓘTranslated by Rob Vooren	Dutch	Het zesde paleis
1982^ⓘTranslated by Zoran Milović	Croatian	Šesta palača^?Sesta palaca Shesta palacha
1991^ⓘTranslated by André Guilherme Polito.	Portuguese	O Sexto Palácio
1992^ⓘTranslated by Constantin Cozmiuc	Romanian	Al șaselea palat^?Al saselea palat
1994^ⓘTranslated by Dan Popescu	Romanian	Al șaselea palat^?Al saselea palat

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Galaxy Magazine, February 1965	1965-02-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Galaxy Publishing Corporation		$0.60^?$: US dollar	196	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Wright
Urania #388	1965-06-13	ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini	Mondadori	388	Lit 200^?Lit: Italian lira	128	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Karel Thole
Galaxie (2ème série), #20	1965-12-00	ed. Alain Dorémieux^?Alain Doremieux	OPTA		F2.50^?F: French frank	164	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Dember
Needle in a Timestack	1966-11-00	Robert Silverberg	Ballantine Books	U2330	$0.50^?$: US dollar	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Richard Powers
Needle in a Timestack	1967-00-00	Robert Silverberg	Sphere Books	78417	5/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	David Davies (artist)
Needle in a Timestack	1967-00-00	Robert Silverberg	Sphere	78433	5/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
The Cube Root of Uncertainty	1970-00-00	Robert Silverberg	Macmillan		$5.95^?$: US dollar	xi+ 239	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Anthony Sini
Needle in a Timestack	1970-09-00	Robert Silverberg	Ballantine Books	0-345-02024-3	$0.75^?$: US dollar	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Tom Adams
The Cube Root of Uncertainty	1971-00-00	Robert Silverberg	Collier Books	02539	$1.25^?$: US dollar	xi+ 239	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Anthony Sini
Deep Space: Eight Stories of Science Fiction	1973-03-00	ed. Robert Silverberg	Thomas Nelson	0-8407-6264-X	$5.95^?$: US dollar	223	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Edward Bonner
Deep Space: Eight Stories of Science Fiction	1973-07-00	ed. Robert Silverberg	Thomas Nelson / SFBC	5791	$1.49^?$: US dollar	viii+ 183	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Edward Bonner
Valence and Vision: A Reader in Psychology	1974-00-00	ed. Rich Jones, Richard L. Roe	Rinehart Press	0-03-008416-4		xiii+ 482	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Rumo à estrela negra^?Rumo a estrela negra	1974-00-00	Robert Silverberg	Expressão e Cultura			230	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Histoires de robots	1974-04-16	ed. Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis^?Demetre Ioakimidis , Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein	Le Livre de Poche (La grande anthologie de la science-fiction #3764)	2-253-00061-2		486	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Pierre Faucheux
Histoires de robots	1974-06-11	ed. Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis^?Demetre Ioakimidis , Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein	Le Livre de Poche (La grande anthologie de la science-fiction #3764)	2-253-00061-2		486	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Pierre Faucheux
Deep Space	1974-11-00	ed. Robert Silverberg	Dell Laurel	0-440-03264-4 / 3264	$0.95^?$: US dollar	221	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	John Berkey
Die Schatten dunkler Flügel^?Die Schatten dunkler Fluegel	1975-00-00	Robert Silverberg	Goldmann (Goldmann Science Fiction #0203)	3-442-23203-1	DM 4.00^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	159	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	F. Jürgen Rogner
Histoires de robots	1975-02-26	ed. Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis^?Demetre Ioakimidis , Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein	Le Livre de Poche (La grande anthologie de la science-fiction #3764)	2-253-00061-2		486	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Pierre Faucheux
Deep Space: Eight Stories of Science Fiction	1976-00-00	ed. Robert Silverberg	Abelard-Schuman	0-200-72471-1	£3.95^?£: UK pound	223	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Graham Tucker
Histoires de robots	1976-00-00	ed. Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis^?Demetre Ioakimidis , Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein	Le Livre de Poche (La grande anthologie de la science-fiction #3764)	2-253-00061-2		486	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Pierre Faucheux
The Best of Robert Silverberg	1976-02-00	Robert Silverberg	Pocket Books	0-671-80282-8	$1.95^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 258	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Alan Magee
Deep Space	1976-05-00	ed. Robert Silverberg	Dell Laurel	3264	$1.25^?$: US dollar	221	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	John Berkey
Lo mejor de Silverberg	1977-00-00	Robert Silverberg	Bruguera (Libro Amigo #463)	84-02-05003-4		317	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Chris Foss
The Best of Robert Silverberg	1977-08-00	Robert Silverberg	Sidgwick & Jackson	0-283-98400-7	£3.95^?£: UK pound	xiv+ 258	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Deep Space	1977-09-00	ed. Robert Silverberg	Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers	0-552-10551-1	£0.70^?£: UK pound	172	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Peter Jones
Histoires de robots	1978-00-00	ed. Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis^?Demetre Ioakimidis , Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein	Le Livre de Poche (La grande anthologie de la science-fiction #3764)	2-253-00061-2		486	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Pierre Faucheux
The Best of Robert Silverberg, Volume I	1978-06-00	Robert Silverberg	Gregg Press	0-8398-2445-9	$13.00^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 258	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Best of Robert Silverberg	1978-08-00	Robert Silverberg	Orbit / Futura	0-86007-950-3	£0.95^?£: UK pound	xiv+ 258	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Peter Jones
Het verre Centaurus	1980-00-00	ed. Robert Silverberg	Bruna (Bruna SF #110)	90-229-9110-5	ƒ7.00	188	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Karel Thole
The Best of Robert Silverberg	1980-09-00	Robert Silverberg	Pocket Books	0-671-83497-5	$2.50^?$: US dollar	vii+ 258	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Gerry Daly
The Best of Robert Silverberg	1980-09-00	Robert Silverberg	Pocket Books	0-671-83497-5	C$2.75^?C$: Canadian dollar	vii+ 258	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Gerry Daly
Weekend Book of Science Fiction	1981-00-00	ed. Stuart Gendall	Harmsworth Publications Ltd. for Assoc. Newspapers Group Ltd.	0-85144-180-7	£1.00^?£: UK pound	127	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Reginald Gray
Sirius, #74	1982-08-05	ed. Borivoj Jurković^?Borivoj Jurkovic Borivoj Jurkovich	Vjesnik		Din 40^?Din: Serbian and Yugoslavian dinar	148	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	mag	Vicente Segrelles
Histoires de robots	1985-02-00	ed. Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis^?Demetre Ioakimidis , Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein	Le Livre de Poche (La grande anthologie de la science-fiction #3764)	2-253-00061-2		486	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Éric Seigaud^?Eric Seigaud
The Best of Robert Silverberg	1986-08-00	Robert Silverberg	Baen Books	0-671-65586-8	$2.95^?$: US dollar	viii+ 277	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Tom Kidd
The Best of Robert Silverberg	1986-08-00	Robert Silverberg	Baen Books (Baen Science Fiction Books)	0-671-65586-8	C$3.95^?C$: Canadian dollar	viii+ 277	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Tom Kidd
Mutantes	1991-00-00	Robert Silverberg	Melhoramentos	85-06-01336-4		235	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Anticipația CPSF 489^?Anticipatia CPSF 489	1992-07-00	ed. Viorica Podină^?Viorica Podinah Viorica Podina	Știință & Tehnică^?Shtiintsa & Tehnicah		Lei 25^?Lei: Romanian leu	32	unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	mag	Marian Leonida
Histoires de robots	1993-10-00	ed. Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis^?Demetre Ioakimidis , Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein	Le Livre de Poche (La grande anthologie de la science-fiction #3764)	2-253-00061-2		486	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Seigaud
Pasagerii	1994-00-00	Robert Silverberg	Editura Nemira (Nautilus #019)	973-36-9002-3	Lei 1,500^?Lei: Romanian leu	252	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Histoires de robots	1997-00-00	ed. Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein	Le Livre de Poche ( Les maîtres de la science-fiction^?Les maitres de la science-fiction )	2-253-07195-1		119	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Histoires de robots	1997-04-00	ed. Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein	Le Livre de Poche ( Les maîtres de la science-fiction^?Les maitres de la science-fiction #7195)	2-253-07195-1		119	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Ringing the Changes	1997-07-21	Robert Silverberg	Voyager / HarperCollins (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg #5)	0-586-21373-2	£6.99^?£: UK pound	359	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Fred Gambino
Le chemin de la nuit	2002-03-00	Robert Silverberg	Flammarion (Imagine)	2-080-68235-2	€24.00^?€: Euro	726	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Pictor
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69	2007-06-00	Robert Silverberg	Subterranean Press	978-1-59606-089-0	$35.00^?$: US dollar	391	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69	2007-06-00	Robert Silverberg	Subterranean Press	978-1-59606-089-0	$65.00^?$: US dollar	391	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
To the Dark Star	2011-09-29	Robert Silverberg	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-10665-9	£2.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69	2012-04-30	Robert Silverberg	Subterranean Press	978-1-59606-508-6	$18.95^?$: US dollar	392	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Needle in a Timestack and Other Stories	2019-08-20	Robert Silverberg	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-5040-5866-7	$9.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Galaxy's Edge, January 2020	2020-01-00	ed. Mike Resnick	Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick	978-1-61242-487-3	$7.99^?$: US dollar	108	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	mag
Galaxy's Edge, January 2020	2020-01-00	ed. Mike Resnick	Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick	978-1-61242-488-0	$4.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	mag
Voyagers: Twelve Journeys Through Space and Time	2021-04-20	Robert Silverberg	Three Rooms Press	978-1-953103-04-8	$16.00^?$: US dollar	xvii+ 414	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Voyagers: Twelve Journeys Through Space and Time	2021-04-20	Robert Silverberg	Three Rooms Press		$9.49^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Needle in a Timestack	2021-06-10	Robert Silverberg	Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-1-4732-2920-4	£10.99^?£: UK pound	ix+ 579	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Needle in a Timestack	2021-06-10	Robert Silverberg	Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-1-4732-2921-1	£10.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll

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