Mistake

Publication date: 
1976-01
Publication type: 
Short Story
Published: 
Stellar #2, original anthology edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey
Opus No.: 
93
Setting: 
Stand Alone
Characters: 
Elroy Barnes
Summary: 

A playful short story in the same vein as "The Nonesuch," based on the idea of reverse solipsism (for lack of a better term): "I exist because someone else imagines I do."

Notes: 

In space, no one can hear you take a pill

Reprints: 

anthology, 100 Great Science Fiction Stories, edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander;
Science Fiction and Fantasy Story-A-Month 1989 Calendar, ed. Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg, Pomegranate 1988;
Convergent Series