HH: "Martin Luther King received the Nobel Prize. The Danish papers were filled with news of his visit, there was great excitement and I, as an expatriate, felt quite proud of my country. Good things were happening. Until I bought a copy of Time which had a piece about King which contained, among other things, a quote from some simple-minded Southern son-of-a-bitch of a sheriff, who said something to the effect that maybe King was a big man in Norway but in the sheriff's town he would be just one more nigger.

"The contrast from where I was and where I used to be was shocking and hurtful. In the army I was stationed for a number of years in Mississippi, Florida and Texas. I knew the sheriff's type well. I had just forgotten. I was very angry. To express that anger in intelligent form I conceived and wrote this story in a white heat, at one sitting. I do not apologize if it is an angry story." (Best of Harry Harrison)

PUBLICATION HISTORY

  • Amazing Stories, February 1966.

  • An ABC of Science Fiction, edited by Tom Boardman, Jr. London: New English Library, 1966.

  • An ABC of Science Fiction, edited by Tom Boardman, Jr. New York: Avon, 1968, pbk.

  • Prime Number, July 1970.

  • as: "Der Statist" in Primzhal [Prime Number]. June 1972. [German].

  • The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, February 1973.

  • Seacon (28th-31st March 1975) Program Booklet, p.11-16. With a new introduction by the author.

  • The Best of Harry Harrison, June 1976.

  • as: "Mozart Assassiné" in Le Livre d'Or de la Science Fiction: Harry Harrison, edited by George W. Barlowe. Paris: Presses Pocket, 1985, pbk. p.98-108. Translated by George W. Barlowe. [French].

  • as: "Den Stumme Milton" in Aschkelons Gator [The Best of Harry Harrison]. 1985. [Swedish].

  • A Treasury of American Horror Stories, edited by Frank D. McSherry, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, New York: Crown / Bonanza, 1985, p.319-324, ISBN: 0-517-48075-1, hbk.

  • Galactic Dreams, April 1994.

  • 50 in 50, July 2001.