Books by Robert Silverberg
Born: 01/15/1935
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Robert Silverberg Biography & Notes
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935 in Brooklyn, NY) is a prolific author best known for writing science fiction, a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Silverberg, a voracious reader from childhood on, began submitting stories to the science fiction magazines in his early teenage years. He attended Columbia University, receiving an A.B. in English Literature in 1956, but he kept writing science fiction. His first published novel, a children's book called Revolt on Alpha C appeared in 1955, and in the following year, he won his first Hugo, as "best new writer." For the next four years, by his own count, he wrote a million words a year, for magazines and Ace Doubles. In 1959 the market for science fiction collapsed, and Silverberg turned his ability to write copiously to other fields, from carefully researched historical nonfiction to softcore porn for Nightstand Books.
In the mid-1960s science fiction writers were starting to be more literarily ambitious, and Frederik Pohl, then editing three science fiction magazines, offered Silverberg carte blanche in writing for them. Thus inspired, Silverberg returned to writing, paying far more attention to depth of character and social background than he had in the past and mixing in elements of the modernist literature he had studied at Columbia.
The books he wrote at this time were widely considered a quantum leap from his earlier work. Perhaps the first to show the new Silverberg was To Open the Sky, a fix-up of stories published by Pohl in Galaxy, in which a new religion helps people reach the stars. That was followed by Downward to the Earth, perhaps the first post-colonial science fiction book, a book with echoes of Joseph Conrad in which the Terran former administrator of an alien world returns after it is set free. Other popularly and critically acclaimed works of that time include To Live Again, in which the personalities of dead people can be transferred; The World Inside, a look at an overpopulated future; and Dying Inside, a tale of a telepath losing his powers.
In 1969 his �Nightwings� was awarded the Hugo as best novella. He won a Nebula award in 1970, for the short story �Passengers,� and two the following year--for his novel A Time of Changes and the short story �Good News from the Vatican�--then yet another, in 1975, for his novella �Born with the Dead.� In 1970 he was Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention.
Silverberg was tired after years of high production, and he had suffered stresses from a thyroid malfunction and a major house fire. He moved from his native New York to the West Coast in 1972, and he announced his retirement from writing in 1975. In 1980 he returned, however, with Lord Valentine's Castle, a panoramic adventure set on an alien planet, which has become the basis of a series, and he has kept writing ever since.
Silverberg, a voracious reader from childhood on, began submitting stories to the science fiction magazines in his early teenage years. He attended Columbia University, receiving an A.B. in English Literature in 1956, but he kept writing science fiction. His first published novel, a children's book called Revolt on Alpha C appeared in 1955, and in the following year, he won his first Hugo, as "best new writer." For the next four years, by his own count, he wrote a million words a year, for magazines and Ace Doubles. In 1959 the market for science fiction collapsed, and Silverberg turned his ability to write copiously to other fields, from carefully researched historical nonfiction to softcore porn for Nightstand Books.
In the mid-1960s science fiction writers were starting to be more literarily ambitious, and Frederik Pohl, then editing three science fiction magazines, offered Silverberg carte blanche in writing for them. Thus inspired, Silverberg returned to writing, paying far more attention to depth of character and social background than he had in the past and mixing in elements of the modernist literature he had studied at Columbia.
The books he wrote at this time were widely considered a quantum leap from his earlier work. Perhaps the first to show the new Silverberg was To Open the Sky, a fix-up of stories published by Pohl in Galaxy, in which a new religion helps people reach the stars. That was followed by Downward to the Earth, perhaps the first post-colonial science fiction book, a book with echoes of Joseph Conrad in which the Terran former administrator of an alien world returns after it is set free. Other popularly and critically acclaimed works of that time include To Live Again, in which the personalities of dead people can be transferred; The World Inside, a look at an overpopulated future; and Dying Inside, a tale of a telepath losing his powers.
In 1969 his �Nightwings� was awarded the Hugo as best novella. He won a Nebula award in 1970, for the short story �Passengers,� and two the following year--for his novel A Time of Changes and the short story �Good News from the Vatican�--then yet another, in 1975, for his novella �Born with the Dead.� In 1970 he was Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention.
Silverberg was tired after years of high production, and he had suffered stresses from a thyroid malfunction and a major house fire. He moved from his native New York to the West Coast in 1972, and he announced his retirement from writing in 1975. In 1980 he returned, however, with Lord Valentine's Castle, a panoramic adventure set on an alien planet, which has become the basis of a series, and he has kept writing ever since.
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Across a Billion Years by Robert Silverberg ( 1986)
A brother's "message cubes" to his twin sister relate the unusual adventures of the archaeological expedition he accompanies into space in the twenty-fourth century.
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After the Flames by Robert Silverberg, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Norman Spinrad ( 1985)
Three notable science-fiction authors offer, in three short novels, an extraordinary vision of the future of America in a post-holocaust world.
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Aliens Seven Stories of Science Fiction by ( 1976)
Such outlandish creatures as the spherical gorgon, the furry Martian Marshie, a crab from Melf Four, and the Eaters provoke earth people to new ways of thinking and judging.
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Alpha Nine by Robert Silverberg ( 1978) |
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The Androids Are Coming Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, and More by Robert Silverberg ( 2000) |
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At Winter's End by Robert Silverberg ( 2005)
In the distant future, humans abandoned the Earth to the ravages of a nuclear winter. Now, thousands of generations later, their distant relatives are slowly emerging from the ice-ridden planet to stake their own claim on the planet--but they are not the only intelligent species to have flourished in hiding.
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Auk The Dodo, and the Oryx Vanished and Vanishing Cre by Robert Silverberg ( 1967)
An historical record of the existence and extinction of those animals lost as a result of man's habitation and civilization on earth, with a summary of conservation efforts today.
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The Avram Davidson Treasury A Tribute Collection by Robert Silverberg, Avram Davidson, Grania Davis ( 1998)
Avram Davidson, author of such classics as "Or All the Seas with Oysters", "Help! I am Dr. Morris Goldpepper", "Golem", and "My Boyfriend's Name Is Jello", was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. Now his estate and his friends have brought together a definitive collection of his finest work, each story introduced by an SF luminary: writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Poul Anderson, Gene Wolfe, Guy Davenport, Peter S. Beagle, Gregory Benford, Alan Dean Foster, Thomas M. Disch, and dozens of others. This is a volume every lover of 20th-century fantasy will need to own.
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The Best of Robert Silverberg by Robert Silverberg ( 1986) |
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Beyond the Gates of World's by Robert Silverberg ( 1993)
In interconnecting worlds with plots and counterplots, the authors explore alternate worlds in Tumbuctu, Old Mother Russia, and the Incan Empire.
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Beyond the Safe Zone by Robert Silverberg ( 1987)
Twenty-seven stories deal with immortality, intelligent dolphins, space travel, time travel, a robot pope, forced organ donorship, newspapers, from the future, extrasensory perception, and mutants.
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The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg ( 2006)
Four college students searching for the secret of eternal life embark on a journey to the Arizona desert where they encounter a mysterious, ancient sect called the Keepers of the Skulls who guard a mystic rite that controls all of their futures.
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Born With the Dead Three Novellas by Robert Silverberg ( 1974) |
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Capricorn Games by Robert Silverberg ( 1979) |
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A Century of Fantasy 1980-1989 1980-1989 by Martin H. Greenberg ( 1997) |
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Century of Science 1950-1959 The Greatest Stories of the Decade by Martin H. Greenberg ( 1997) |
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The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Secret Sharers by Robert Silverberg ( 1992) |
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Collision Course by Robert Silverberg ( 1988)
For centuries, humans roamed the stars without fear. Now, the discovery of a highly advanced alien civilization brings humanity to the brink of a war that threatens the very stability of space.
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Conquerors from the Darkness by Robert Silverberg ( 1986)
The alien race which conquered Earth many centuries before is returning and Dovirr must unite the planet's feuding populations in defense.
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Cronos by Robert Silverberg ( 2001)
In a trio of novels--Letters from Atlantis, Project Pendulum, and The Time Hoppers--the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author explores the possibilites of time travel and the dangers of changing history as travelers set out to unravel the mysteries of Atlantis, journey millions of years into the past and future, and try to correct the problems of the present. Original.
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Dangerous Interfaces by Robert Silverberg ( 1990)
Collects stories by Silverberg, Anne McCaffrey, Christopher Stasheff, and Robert Sheckley, dealing with a futuristic society in which humans have computer-generated slaves with the personalities of long-dead historical figures.
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The Dawning Light by Robert Silverberg ( 1982) |
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The Day the Sun Stood Still; Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction, by Robert Silverberg, Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson ( 1972)
Three stories about modern man's confrontation with a miracle provide a penetrating study of human faith.
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Deep Space by ( 1973)
Eight science-fiction writers comment on the realm of technology and the wonders of space in this anthology of stories.
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The Disappearance by Philip Wylie ( 2004) |
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Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg ( 1984)
With only a small group of Earth-beings left on the planet, Gunderson travels to Belzagor to find Seena and help her experience the flesh-transfer of the nildoror rebirth ceremony.
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Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg ( 2009)
A re-release of a classic work by a Hugo Award and Nebula Award-winning writer follows the experiences of a man whose ability to read minds irrevocably shapes his life and threatens everything he understands when he begins to lose his abilities. Reprint.
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Earth Is the Strangest Planet by ( 2000) |
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Explorers of Space Eight Stories of Science Fiction by Robert Silverberg ( 1988) |
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The Face of the Waters by Robert Silverberg ( 1991)
On the waterworld planet of Hydros, the human colonists are exiled by the amphibious natives from the few habitable land masses and set off in a desperate search for refuge in the shadowy mystical land of the Face of the Waters.
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Fantastic Imaginings An Anthology of Visionary Literature by Robert Silverberg, John Crowley ( 2004)
This definitive collection of science fiction and fantasy explores the key imaginative roots and their later literary permutations. The author list alone reads like a literary Who's Who, and includes many writers not primarily known for their forays into the fantastic. Organized by topic, rather than simple chronology, this volume allows the listener to trace the history of robots, aliens, and apocalypses up to some of their most recent manifestations.
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Fantasy The Best of 2002 by ( 2003)
Offers a collection of fantasy stories from magazines, anthologies, and journals.
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The Fantasy Hall of Fame Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( 1998)
The authorative companion and follow-up to the acclaimed Science Fiction Hall of Fame acknowledges the importance of fantasy to modern literature, and enshrine the 30 favorite short stories of all time.
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Fantasy, the Best of 2001 by ( 2002) |
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Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg ( 1993)
The seventh and final volume in the acclaimed "Foundation Series" follows such best-loved characters as Hari Seldon, Father of the Foundation, Cleon II, Emperor of the Galactic Empire, and Eto Demerzel, who wields the true power of the throne.
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Galactic Dreamers Science Fiction As Visionary Literature by ( 1977)
Eight stories by Blish, Aldiss, Ballard, and others explore the visionary, mystical, and psychedelic dimensions of science fiction.
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Ghost Towns of the American West by Robert Silverberg ( 1994)
Silverberg brings these early mining towns back to life in the rowdy splendor of their heyday -- when eggs might cost three dollars apiece and a town's streets might be literally paved with silver.
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Gilgamesh the King by Robert Silverberg ( 1985)
Recreates the legend of the Sumerian demi-god and king Gilgamesh, slayer of monsters and master of unsurpassed treasures, who searches for the key to immortality.
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The Golden Dream Seekers of El Dorado by Robert Silverberg ( 1996)
One of the most persistent legends in the annals of New Worlds exploration is that of the Land of Gold. Its mythical site was located over vast areas of South America (and later, North America); it drove some men mad with greed and, often as not, to their deaths. In this amazing history of quest and adventure, Robert Silverberg traces the fate of Old World explorers lured westward by the myth of El Dorado. From the German conquistadores, licensed by the Spanish king to operate out of Venezuela; to the journeys of Gonzalo Pizarro in the Amazon basin; to the nearly miraculous voyage of Orellana as far as the mouth of the Amazon (where he encountered the warlike women, who, according to his chronicler, gave the river its name); violence and bloodshed accompanied the determined adventurers. Sir Walter Raleigh (and a host of others) spent small fortunes and many lives trying to locate Manoa, a city that was rumored to be El Dorado. It was the naturalist Humboldt in the nineteenth century who turned attention back to Lake Guatavita, where gold was indeed found - though much less than the mythic El Dorado. Too little, in fact, to be worth the cost of extracting it. And so the legend died. With the historian's attention to fact and the novelist's gift for the dramatic, Silverberg recreates the legend of El Dorado.
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Great Adventures in Archaeology by ( 1997) |
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Great Angel Fantasies Nine Celestial Chronicles by Robert Silverberg, Lisa Goldstein, Kate Wilhelm, Stephen Gallagher, Charles De Lint, Ken Wisman ( 1996) |
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Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century by Robert Silverberg, M.H. Greenberg ( 1988)
A collection of stories by the greatest names in the genre.
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Great Tales of Science Fiction by Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg ( 1994)
A collection of science fiction tales features the writing of Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Theodore Sturgeon, Ursula K. LeGuin, Julian Huxley, Rudyard Kipling, Fritz Leiber, Murray Leinster, and others.
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Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg ( 1986)
A group of men are exiled to Hawksbill Station because they are revolutionaries, anarchists, or political dissenters.
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Hawksbill Times Two by Robert Silverberg ( 2002) |
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Hollywood Fantasies 10 Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town by Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, John Jakes, David Morrell, Robert Bloch, Robert Sheckley, Michael Reaves, Edward Gorman, Henry Slesar, David Schow ( 1997) |
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Hot Sky at Midnight by Robert Silverberg ( 1994)
Humankind's soul is at stake in a futuristic tale of an earth bordering on ecological collapse, from which the only escapes are genetic adaptation or emigration to satellite cities in the sky. By the author of Kingdoms of the Wall.
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In Another Country and Other Short Novels by Robert Silverberg ( 2002) |
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In Another Country/Vintage Season by Robert Silverberg, C.L. Moore ( 1990)
Thimiroi, a time-traveling tourist who interferes with the course of history, acquires some unusual tenants whose arrival presages an ominous event.
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The Infinite Web by ( 1977)
Arthur Clarke, Brian Aldiss, and James Tiptree are among the authors of science fiction stories, all of which point to the consequences of upsetting the balance of nature.
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Invaders from Earth by Robert Silverberg ( 2001) |
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The King of Dreams by Robert Silverberg ( 2002) The years since first be gained the Starburst Crown have been difficult ones for Coronal Lord Prestimion and the vast, unfathoniable realm he rules. But finally peace has been restored to Majipoor. And now it is time for Prestimion to name the able Prince Dekkeret his succeeding Coronal and to descend to the Labyrinth as Pontifex. But a power from a dark past that both men believed was dead is stirring once again -- an evil more potent and devastating than either leader dares to remember. Once, decades past, a then knight-initiate Dekkeret had his dreams stolen from him. His quest for recovery led him to a remarkable helmetthat could invade the psyches of sleeping foes, a device the newly anointed Coronal Prestimion later utilized to defeat his enemy Dantirya Sambail, tyrant of the continent Zimroel. In the fires of civil war, the terrible weapon was destroyed forever -- or so it was believed. The noxious weed of rebellion was torn out at its roots but its seeds have borne frightening fruit. Dantirya Sambail is dead, and the hungry jackals who ran at his heels now scheme to recover his lost lands and power. At their head is the tyrant's former henchman Mandralisca -- a villain of great wiles and icy heart, who somehow has unleashed a devastating plague of the mind upon Prestimion's subjects, Dark visions are invading the sleep of those loyal to the Lords and the Lady of Majipoor -- soul-shattering scenes of madness and monstrosity, driving those inflicted to commit horrible, destructive acts. And the dark wave is flowing ever-closer to the throne, seeping beneath the doors of the 30,000 rooms of the towering edifice atop Castle Mount ... and into sacrosanct depths of the imperial Labyrinth itself. A new campaign for the soul of Majipoor has been declared -- and its catastrophic opening salvos have been fired in silence and in mystery. Once again Prestimion and Dekkeret have been called onto the battlefield of nightmare. But this time it will be a war to the death against a foe greater than all who came before: the master of murderous shadows who aspires to be King of all. |
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Kingdoms of the Wall by Robert Silverberg ( 1993)
Chosen to lead the forty men and women from the village of Jespodar in their annual quest to scale the Wall, a monstrous assemblage of cliffs, Poilar Crookleg is finally able to realize his lifelong dream.
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L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future by L. Ron Hubbard ( 1996)
Here is a unique anthology of stories by 17 of the best new science fiction and fantasy writers. Exploring new worlds and alternate futures, delving into the minds of humans and non-humans alike. L. Ron Hubbard established the Writers of the Future Contest in 1983 as a means to give new and budding writers a chance for their creative efforts to be seen and acknowledged.
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future by ( 2003)
Voyage to the furthest reaches of the imagination across time and beyond space with these thrilling and exciting stories by the best new writers in speculative fiction. Each of these creative tales will take you on breathtaking adventures to undiscovered galaxies and alien worlds.
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future XVII by ( 2001) |
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The Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg ( 2002)
A collection of short fiction by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author includes the never-before-collected "Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love," as well as "For a Breath I Tarry," "Go Starless in the Night," "Unicorn Variations," "Permafrost," "Home Is the Hangman," and "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai." Reprint.
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Legends Stories by the Masters of Fantasy by Anne McCaffrey, George R.R. Martin, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett ( 1999)
Legends, the monumental series of fantasy audios, concludes with this astounding collection of all-new stories by three of the best-loved and acclaimed authors of the genre, all of them set in the uncanny realms of their phenomenally popular novels.In this extraordinary fourth volume, Anne McCaffrey returns to her world of romance and adventure to tell the story of a Runner of Pern. Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga is the setting for the revenge of The Wood Boy. And George R. R. Martin sets his adventure of The Hedge Knight in the generation before his epic A Song of Ice and Fire. The Legends series spans four audio volumes and includes short novels from the greatest living writers in all fantasy. Look for other Legends volumes with stories from: Stephen King, Robert Silverberg, Robert Jordan, Terry Pratchett, Orson Scott Card, Terry Goodkind, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Tad Williams.In addition to her best-selling Dragons of Pern series, Anne McCaffrey is also the author of Acorna: The Unicorn Girl and the Brainship series.Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga includes Magician: Apprentice, Magician: Master, Silverthorn, and A Darkness at Sethanon.George R. R. Martin is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author best known for his novellas and his Wild Cards novels.Kathryn Walker performs Runner of PernSam Tsoutsouvas performs The Wood BoyFrank Muller performs The Hedge Knight
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Legends Stories by the Masters of Fantasy by Robert Silverberg, Stephen King ( 1998)
The first volume in an exciting series of fantasy short novels, as the genre's favorite writers spin new tales in their most beloved series. In this first volume, Stephen King presents an untold story set during Roland the Gunslinger's epic, worlds-spanning quest for the mysterious Dark Tower called "The Dark Tower: The Little Sisters of Eluria". Robert Silverberg returns to the world of Majipoor and Lord Valentine's astonishing life in "Majipoor: The Seventh Shrine". Unabridged.
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Letter from Atlantis Set by Robert Silverberg ( 1997) |
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Letters from Atlantis by Robert Silverberg ( 2000)
A man from the 21st century travels back in time to the height of Atlantean civilization in order to determine how so advanced a culture could vanish so completely--only to discover that someone with a very different purpose may have beaten him there.
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The Longest Voyage Circumnavigators in the Age of Discovery by Robert Silverberg ( 1997)
Robert Silverberg's The Longest Voyage captures the drama and danger and personalities in the colorful story of the first voyages around the world. In only a century, circumnavigators in small ships charted the coast of the New World and explored the Pacific. Characterized by fierce nationalism, competitiveness, and bloodshed, it was a century much like our own. Silverberg brings these early ocean explorers intensely alive in The Longest Voyage. Captured within the total context of political climax, social values, and historic change that made the Age of Discovery one of the most exciting and dramatic in all history, Magellan, Drake, Cavendish, Noort, Spilbergen, Schouten, and Le Muire are strangely contemporary.
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Lord Prestimion by Robert Silverberg ( 1999)
Lord Prestimion finds his world in the grip a fastspreading plague of madness, left as a "gift" by Dantirya Sambail and the rebels. Now Prestimion must track down Sambail before the slow-creeping despair that infects humanity can destroy him and the world he rules.
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Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg ( 1980)
On the planet of Majipoor, Valentine struggles to reclaim his birthright when he realizes that he is the true Coronal, Lord Valentine, who has been drugged, physically altered, and replaced on the throne.
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Lord of Darkness by Robert Silverberg ( 1984)
Captive to the slave-trading colonists of Angola, young British seaman Andrew Battell longs for his home in the England of Elizabeth I, but increasingly finds himself enthralled by the occult arts of the Lord of Darkness.
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Majipoor Chronicles by Robert Silverberg, Sean Jordan ( 2006) |
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The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann ( 2007) |
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The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg ( 1983) |
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Masks of Time by Robert Silverberg ( 1978) |
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The Masks of Time/Born With the Dead/Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg ( 1988)
A trio of science fiction tales includes the story of a mysterious time traveler, a love that transcends the boundaries of death, and a man born with an awesome power.
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Master of Life and Death by Robert Silverberg ( 2001) |
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More of the Best of Science Fiction & Fantasy by Robert Silverberg, Arthur C. Clarke, Orson Scott Card ( 1996) |
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The Mound Builders by Robert Silverberg ( 1986)
Science fiction author Silverberg's scholarly study examines the history of the investigations into the thousands of mysterious mounds that dot the American landscape. It discusses the "discovery" of the mounds by the settlers and frontiersmen, early theories regarding their origins from learned journals of the 1800s, and the studies by the nascent Smithsonian Institute that finally established the mounds as Native American burial grounds.
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Mound Builders of Ancient America The Archaeology of a Myth by Robert Silverberg ( 1986)
Science fiction author Silverberg's scholarly study examines the history of the investigations into the thousands of mysterious mounds that dot the American landscape. It discusses the "discovery" of the mounds by the settlers and frontiersmen, early theories regarding their origins from learned journals of the 1800s, and the studies by the nascent Smithsonian Institute that finally established the mounds as Native American burial grounds.
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The Mountains of Majipoor by Robert Silverberg ( 1995)
Exiled to the borderlands of Majipoor, Prince Harpirias grasps at his only hope for redemption in a dangerous rescue mission beyond the nine Guardian mountains, where a party of paleontologists has been captured by a primitive tribe.
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The Mutant Season by Robert Silverberg, Karen Haber ( 1989)
Starting in the 1400s, children with gold-colored eyes and strange abilities--telepathy, telekinesis, and the like--began to be born into the world. For centuries, these "mutants" kept themselves hidden for fear of persecution, but in the latter part of the 20th century, they found more and more acceptance among the rest of society. But now, in 2017, the murder of a prominent politician brings the "mutant" population into direct conflict with "normal" people, and the outcome will forever change the planet.
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Mutants Eleven Stories of Science Fiction by Robert Silverberg ( 1975)
Stories involving a variety of monstrous and inconspicuous, fantastic and apparently normal mutations explore the possible consequences of variously caused genetic changes in living creatures.
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Neanderthals by Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Robert Silverberg ( 1987)
A medley of tales focusing on humankind's ancestor, the Neanderthal, features works by Poul Anderson, Philip Jose Farmer, Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, and Bertram Chandler.
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 The Year's Best Sf and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America by ( 2001)
Edited by the widely acclaimed SF author Robert Silverberg, the Nebula Awards series is "the pulse of modern science fiction" (The New York Times Book Review) The Nebula Awards are the Academy Awards of science fiction, the finest works each year in the genre as voted by the members of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The Nebula Awards anthology series has now reached its thirty-fifth year. This edition contains the complete award-winning texts by Ted Chiang, Mary A. Turzillo, Leslie What, and Octavia E. Butler (an excerpt from her novel The Parable of the Talents); a report on the field ("still inarguably dynamic") by Gary K. Wolfe; runner-up stories by David Marusek and Michael Swanwick; an early story by 2000 Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss; and 2000 Author Emeritus Daniel Keyes's account of how he wrote Flowers for Algernon. In his introduction, editor Robert Silverberg looks back wryly at Damon Knight, the beginnings of SFWA, and the first Nebula banquets.
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 The Year's Best Sf and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America by ( 2001)
The Nebula Awards are the Academy Awards of science fiction, the finest works each year in the genre as voted by the members of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
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The Nebula Awards, No. 18 by ( 1983) |
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The Necronomicon Selected Stories & Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of the Mad Arab by John Brunner, Robert Silverberg, H. P. Lovecraft ( 1996) |
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Needle in a Timestack by Robert Silverberg ( 1985)
Science fiction stories deal with subjects such as a robot cook, a giant bat from outer space, and a woman's love affair with an alien being.
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New Dimensions 10 by Robert Silverberg ( 1980)
Original science fiction stories involve alien languages, experiences, and beings in plausible and phantasmagoric situations.
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The New Springtime by Robert Silverberg ( 1990)
Forty years after the foundation of a new settlement by Hresh and Taniane, the two capitals of the People are threatened by internal strife, factionalism, and a new war with the insect-like hjjks.
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Nightfall by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg ( 1990)
An expanded version of Asimov's short story, "Nightfall," reveals a world on the brink of chaos, torn between religious fanaticism and scientific denial and faced with the end of civilization.
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Nightwings by Robert Silverberg ( 2008) |
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Nostrilia by Cordwainer Smith ( 2003)
Raised on the planet Old North Australia, where rich and simple farmers grow an immortality drug known as Stroon, a boy follows a series of adventures that lead him to purchase Old Earth and impact the planet in unexpected ways. Reprint.
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The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg ( 1993)
Andrew Martin, a standard housekeeping robot, allows the unique capabilities of his experimental brain to lead him to become an artist, businessman, and crusader, in a novel based on Asimov's short story, "The Bicentennial Man."
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Press Enter/Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg, John Varley ( 1990)
An omnibus pairing of Silverberg's Hugo and Nebula award-nominated story "Hawksbill Station" with Varley's Hugo and Nebula award-winning story, "Press Enter[]".
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Project Pendulum by Robert Silverberg ( 1989)
Project Pendulum, the first practical experiment in time travel, launches paleontologist Sean Gabrielson into the age of dinosaurs and his twin brother Eric, a physicist, ninety-five million years into the future.
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The Pueblo Revolt by Robert Silverberg ( 1994)
How the Pueblos maintained their independence for a dozen years in plain view of the ambitious Spaniards and how they finally expelled the Spanish is the exciting story of The Pueblo Revolt. Robert Silverberg's descriptions yield a rich picture of Pueblo culture.
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The Realm of Prester John by Robert Silverberg ( 1996)
Silverberg has pieced together the life history of the myth of Prester John, the astonishing Christian potentate of the East--a legend which cast a powerful spell over Latin Christendom for centuries.
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A Robert Silverberg Omnibus by Robert Silverberg ( 1981)
Three novels tell of the search for a self-exiled genius who is Earth's last hope, three people who witness Earth's defeat by alien invaders, and an Earthman's experience with a rebirth ceremony on a planet ruled by elphantlike creatures.
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Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder by ( 1989)
Thirteen of the greatest science fiction stories--including "Four one," "The Monsters," "Colony," and "Day million"--are accompanied by in-depth critical analyses and by an autobiographical essay entitled "The Making of a Science Fiction Writer"
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Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg ( 2004) No power on Earth can resist the might of Imperial Rome, so it has been and so it ever shall be. Through brute force, terror, and sheer indomitable will, her armies have enslaved a world. From the reign of Maximilianus the Great in A.U.C. 1203 onward through the ages -- into a new era of scientific advancement and astounding technologies -- countless upstarts and enemies arise, only to be ground into the dust beneath the merciless Roman bootheels. But one people who suffer and endure throughout the many centuries of oppressive rule dream of the glorious day that is coming -- when the heavens themselves will be opened to them…and the ships they are preparing in secret will carry them on their "Great Exodus" to the stars. |
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Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg ( 2000)
This volume collects five novellas by Silverberg, including the title story, which won a 1985 Nebula Award, and "The Secret Sharer," an SF adaptation of the Joseph Conrad tale.
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Sailing to Byzantium/Seven American Nights by Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe ( 1989) |
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame 1929-1964 The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction Writers of America by ( 2005)
A collection of twenty-six definitive science fiction tales includes a diverse range of pieces selected by the writers themselves and provides an introduction to young and new readers as well as a fan's treasury of key short works.
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Science Fiction:101 Ropberts Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder by ( 2005)
Thirteen of the greatest science fiction stories--including "Four one," "The Monsters," "Colony," and "Day million"--are accompanied by in-depth critical analyses and by an autobiographical essay entitled "The Making of a Science Fiction Writer." Originally published as Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder. Reissue.
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The Seed of Earth by Robert Silverberg ( 1982) |
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The Sentinel and Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories And Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories by Robert Silverberg, Greg Bear, Arthur C. Clarke, Ben Bova, Orson Scott Card ( 2004)
This is a fabulous collection of short stories by major science Fiction and Fantasy writers -- many of them Nebula and Hugo Award winners. Included is the Sentinel by legendary Arthur C. Clarke, which is the story that evolved into 2001: A Space Odyssey. This collection features more than a dozen complete stories including Permafrost by Roger Zelazny, The Poplar Street Study by Karen Jay Fowler, Our Lady of the Sauropods by Robert Silverberg, Fat Farm by Orson Scott Card along with others by Ben Bova, Greg Bear, Susan Schwartz, Jane Yolin, Connie Willis and Dan Simmons.
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Robert Silverberg ( 1970)
Reconstructs from ancient sources the Seven Wonders of the ancient World: the Great Pyramid of Egypt; the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis of Ephesus, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, The Colossus of Rhodes,and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.Depicts seven ancient architectural achievements including the Colossus of Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Great Pyramid of Egypt and discusses the unique construction methods employed in their creation.
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Shadow on the Stars by Robert Silverberg ( 2000) |
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Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg ( 1985)
Set in 1984, an ancient leader rules over the world, surviving with the aid of organ transplants from youthful donors, while a cancerous virus slowly eats away at the population.
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The Ship Who Sang, Sundance by Anne McCaffrey, Robert Silverberg ( 1996) |
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The Silent Invaders by Robert Silverberg ( 1985)
Disguised invaders from rival extraterrestrial races, the Darruui and Medlin, struggle for control of the earth, and space travelers find themselves mysteriously transported to an unknown world.
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Son of Man by Robert Silverberg ( 2008) |
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Star Of Gypsies by Robert Silverberg ( 2005) |
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Starborne by Robert Silverberg ( 1996)
From the stagnant society of 23rd century Earth comes an idea so powerful that it seizes the imagination of all humankind. A starship will be sent out into the unknown universe, in search of habitable worlds, with the hope that the challenge of colonization will rekindle the dying human spirit. But all communication between Earth and ship are suddenly cut off in the far reaches of the stars, and then the ship's telepath senses a powerful alien presence in the vast vacuum of space. Suddenly the crew's every assumption about life and the universe is about to be proven dead wrong...
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Stepsons of Terra by Robert Silverberg ( 1983) |
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Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg ( 1987)
In the twentieth century's final months, Lew Nichols, administrative assistant to New York City's mayor and expert in stochastic prediction, comes under the influence of Martin Carvajal and develops full powers of seeing the ineluctable future.
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Strange Gifts Eight Stories of Science Fiction by Robert Silverberg ( 1989) |
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Thebes of the Hundred Gates by Robert Silverberg ( 1992)
A rookie with Time Service, Edward Davis goes back in time to to the ancient city of Thebes in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt, where he is befriended by a beautiful Egyptian slave girl and where he learns the trade of the embalmers. Reprint.
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Three Novels by Robert Silverberg ( 1988) |
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Time Gate by Robert Silverberg ( 1989)
The creative geniuses of 21st-century America have made a computer breakthrough--the simulation of thinking, feeling personalities from history, from Socrates to Genghis Khan--and the results are startling.
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The Time Hoppers by Robert Silverberg ( 1982)
In order to prevent the present from never happening, CrimSec Quellen must stop a growing number of time travelers from fleeing the overcrowded world of 2490, creating a more tranquil existence in the past, and perhaps changing the course of history.
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The Time Travelers A Science Fiction Quartet by Robert Silverberg ( 1985)
Stories by Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham, Murray Leinster, Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore explore the concept of time and our place in it.
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A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg ( 2000) |
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Time of the Great Freeze by Robert Silverberg ( 1988)
During the receding Fifth Ice Age seven men expelled from underground New York in 2650 and one deserter from that isolated colony attempt to travel to London, where contact has been made with other people.
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To Live Again by Robert Silverberg ( 1986)
Millionaires have the memories, knowledge, and experience of deceased individuals implanted in their minds at the risk of losing control of their minds and bodies to the newly acquired personalities.
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To the Land of the Living by Robert Silverberg ( 1990)
In a disjointed, dreamlike, and violent afterworld, the hero Gilgamesh joins Helen of Troy and Picasso on a journey into a very familiar and infinitely more frightening realm than the one they had left behind.
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Tom O'Bedlam by Robert Silverberg ( 1986)
In the year 2013, Tom O'Bedlam feigns insanity as a means of surviving the madness of his high-tech, post-industrial world and of coping with his remarkable psychic powers, the ability to send his mind across the far reaches of the universe.
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Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg ( 1987)
Simeon Krug builds a glass tower to facilitate communication with outer space, but the androids he has created turn his ambitions to tragic destruction.
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Treasures Beneath the Sea by Robert Silverberg ( 1986)
Tells the stories of treasure hunters and difficult salvage operations from 1687 to 1947 and describes treasures which have never been recovered.
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The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg ( 1992)
Plucked out of the past and transported forty thousand years into the future, a Neanderthal child discovers that human nature has remained unchanged, in an expanded version of an original Asimov story published in 1958.
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The Ultimate Dinosaur Past, Present, Future by Robert Silverberg, Byron Preiss ( 1993)
Combines articles by leading paleontologists with dinosaur stories by major science-fiction writers.
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The Ultimate Dinosaur by Robert Silverberg ( 1992)
A collection of articles--including one by a leading paleontologist--speculating on the world of the dinosaurs includes contributions by Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Gregory Benford, Michael Bishop, and many others.
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Universe 1 by Robert Silverberg, Karen Haber ( 1990)
A continuation of the series originally edited by the late Terry Carr, this anthology contains stories by Ursula K. LeGuin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Bruce Sterling.
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Universe 3 by Robert Silverberg, Karen Haber ( 1994)
A collection of fifteen stories from the brightest voices in contemporary science fiction features the writing of Brian W. Aldiss, E. Michael Blake, Terry Boren, David Ira Cleary, Alex Jeffers, Jamil Nasir, and others. Original.
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Up the Line by Robert Silverberg ( 1981)
As a Time Courier, Judson Daniel Elliott III travels to ancient Byzantium where he meets and falls in love with his great-great-multi-great grandmother.
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Valentine Pontifex by Robert Silverberg ( 1996)
The national bestselling saga of Robert Silverbergs stunning imagination continues in the first new hardcover Majipoor novel in nearly a decade. As a prequel to Silverbergs earlier Majipoor novels. Sorcerers of Majipoor provides a deep, dark vision for the background of the conflict in Lord Valentine's Castle and Valentine Pontifex.Treachery and wizardry run rampant under the reign of the mighty Pontifex, as both the rightful and the unworthy heirs to the throne anxiously await his demise. Korsibar, son of the current Coronal, plots with his twin sister and ambitious companions to seize the power of the Coronal when his father ascends to the throne of the Pontifex.But the burdens of the crown and scepter exact more of a price than Korsibar is prepared to pay. His rival fights to take his appointed place as keeper of his beloved Majipoor...and to resbackse order to the utter chaos that has befallen their world.
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Virtual Unrealities The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester by Robert Silverberg, Byron Preiss, Alfred Bester, Keith R.A. DeCandido ( 1997)
"Dazzlement and enchantment are Besters methods. His stories never stand still a moment."--Damon Knight, author of Why Do Birds Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. And nowhere is Bester funnier, speedier, or more audacious than in these seventeen short stories--two of them previously unpublished--that have now been brought together in a single volume for the first time.Read about the sweet-natured young man whose phenomenal good luck turns out to be disastrous for the rest of humanity. Find out why tourists are flocking to a hellish little town in a post-nuclear Kansas. Meet a warlock who practices on Park Avenue and whose potions comply with the Pure Food and Drug Act. Make a deal with the Devil--but not without calling your agent. Dazzling, effervescent, sexy, and sardonic, Virtual Unrealities is a historic collection from one of science fiction's true pathbreakers. "Alfred Bester was one of the handful of writers who invented modern science fiction. "--Harry Harrison
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Voyagers in Time by Robert Silverberg ( 1989) |
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The Way It Wasn't Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History by ( 1996)
The Way It Wasn't takes an amusing, intellectually stimulating excursion into speculative history. Here are thirteen memorable stories by renowned science fiction writers, telling what things might be like if... Elvis Presley weren't the "King" but the President of the United States ("Ike at the Mike" by Howard Waldrop)... The Black Death had killed the entire population of Europe in the fourteenth century ("Lion Time in Timbuctoo" by Robert Silverberg)... John F. Kennedy had survived the 1963 shooting in Dallas ("The Winterberry" by Nicholas A. DiChario). Included, too, is fascinating short fiction by Mike Resnick, Susan Shwartz, Larry Niven, Pamela Sargent, Fritz Leiber, Greg Bear, Barry N. Malzberg, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Benford and Kim Stanley Robinson. After reading these stories - some of the most compelling examples of alternate history anywhere - your mind will keep spinning the question "What If...?"
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The World Inside by Robert Silverberg ( 1971) |
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World's Fair, 1992 by Robert Silverberg ( 1982) |
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Worlds Imagined 14 Short Science Fiction Novels by Robert Silverberg ( 1989)
14 different writers, with a novella as an example of their work, view science fiction.
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