Robert Silverberg, Author . Subterranean $35 (408p) ISBN 978-1-59606-143-9
This third of a projected eight volumes of Grand Master Silverberg's short form fiction focuses on his literary output from 1969 to 1972. Many of the 16 stories share what Silverberg describes as the era's “Day-Glo splendor”...
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Robert Silverberg, Author . Subterranean $35 (411p) ISBN 978-1-59606-212-2
Grand Master Silverberg (Roma Eterna
) is one of science fiction's finest short story writers, and this superb volume shows him at his best. In the masterful novella “Born with the Dead,†Jorge Klein cannot accept that his recently resurrected...
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Robert Silverberg, Author . Orb $14.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2432-0
In the 1960s, professional population alarmist Paul Ehrlich made hilariously inaccurate prognostications of imminent Malthusian doom. While these predictions inspired some SF authors to depict crowded future worlds, Silverberg’s 1971 quasi-utop
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Robert Silverberg, Author Pyr $15.98 (225p) ISBN 978-1-59102-646-4
Silverberg, Robert. Son of Man. PYR: Prometheus. 2008. 225p. pap. SF ~Silverberg's 1971 novel follows a man named Clay, who is propelled into the future to find an Earth where the human race has evolved into several species with different names who...
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Robert Silverberg, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (480p) ISBN 978-1-59606-319-8
Science fiction Grand Master Silverberg explores the possibilities and pitfalls of time travel in this omnibus of three classic novels. In 1968's "Hawksbill Station," the government has found a novel way to dispose of malcontents: just send them to...
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Robert Silverberg, Nonstop (NBN, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (344p) ISBN 978-1-933065-20-5
Silverberg (Dying Inside) one of science fiction's all-time greats, introduces this as a follow-up to Reflections and Refractions as a "quasi-autobiographical series of statements about science fiction by someone who has loved it and tried to serve...
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Robert Silverberg. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (432p) ISBN 978-1-59606-402-7
The latest volume of SFWA Grand Master Silverberg's most acclaimed short stories and novellas represents five years of work from 1983-1987, when "four-digit slick magazine [pay]checks" from venues like Playboy and OMNI allowed the author "the luxury
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Robert Silverberg. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-85768-768-5
Crisp, straightforward prose propels this tough-guy novella from multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winner Silverberg (To Open the Sky), originally published pseudonymously in the magazine Trapped in 1962 as Too Much Blood on the Mink. Nick, an agent...
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Robert Silverberg. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59606-501-7
SFWA Grand Master Silverberg wrote these 10 stories between 1987 and 1990. In “The Dead Man’s Eyes,” a jealous husband goes on the run after the thoughtless murder of his wife’s lover. Anorexia is the means to a computer-obsessed boy’s end in “Chip...
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Robert Silverberg. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $24.95 trade paper (728p) ISBN 978-1-59606-472-0
This well-chosen retrospective, which adds three stories to the 2004 limited-edition collection Phases of the Moon, spans 56 years of SFWA Grand Master Silverberg’s writing life, starting in his early career with 1954’s “The Road to Nightfall” and...
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Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro. Arc Manor, $12.99 trade paper (190p) ISBN 978-1-61242-074-5
In this curious concept piece, part of the Stellar Guild series of collaborations between notable SF authors and newcomers, Zinos-Amaro caps an unfinished novella begun in 1987 by SFWA Grand Master Silverberg. The book consists of two parts:...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Robert Silverberg, Author Underwood Books $29.65 (0p) ISBN 978-1-887424-24-0
In 1978, Silverberg, who's won nine Hugo and Nebula Awards for his science fiction, began contributing essays to the short-lived magazine Galileo. He moved to the long-lived Amazing Stories in 1981, then to Asimov's in 1994 after Amazing's demise...
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Robert Silverberg, Author Eos $25 (451p) ISBN 978-0-06-105171-5
The third book of bestseller Silverberg's widely praised Prestimion Trilogy, also the concluding volume of his Majipoor cycle, abounds in rich description of a vast planet peopled by 15 billion beings of several species and ruled by two human kings.
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Robert Silverberg. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (408p) ISBN 978-1-59606-588-8
SFWA Grand Master Silverberg’s extensive retrospective continues with these stories written between July 1990 and March 1995, a period of decreased productivity in his career. Silverberg’s usual themes are present: classical history, archaeology,...
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Robert Silverberg, Author Olmstead Press $14.95 (260p) ISBN 978-1-58754-116-2
Some bibliophiles might argue that a book written less than 20 years ago hasn't quite yet earned the title of ""classic,"" but Robert Silverberg's ""world in chaos"" novel Tom O'Bedlam is being touted as such, here reprinted and updated by the...
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Robert Silverberg, Author HarperPrism $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-105028-2
The latest volume of Silverberg's colossal Majipoor cycle (Sorcerers of Majipoor, etc.) makes a respectable addition to the series of fantasy tales set in a far-future, far-distant human-settled world. Just after he is crowned Coronal, and thus...
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Robert Silverberg, Author HarperPrism $23 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-105254-5
In the palace called the Labyrinth, deep within the bowels of the gigantic world of Majipoor, the planetary ruler known as the Pontifex lies near death. As is traditional, he will be succeeded by Majipoor's other ruler, the Coronal Lord Confalume....
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Robert Silverberg, Author Underwood Books $19.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-887424-22-6
In 1978, Silverberg, who's won nine Hugo and Nebula Awards for his science fiction, began contributing essays to the short-lived magazine Galileo. He moved to the long-lived Amazing Stories in 1981, then to Asimov's in 1994 after Amazing's demise...
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Robert Silverberg, Author Spectra Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-10264-2
One of SF's most prolific writers, Silverberg (Hot Sky at Midnight, 1995, etc.) seems to be resting on his considerable laurels (which include four Hugos and five Nebulas) with this meandering and talky philosophical exercise. A multiethnic crew of...
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Robert Silverberg, Author Spectra Books $19.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-553-09614-9
Silverberg's fourth Majipoor book--his first in over 10 years--is, like the second novel in this popular fantasy series, Majipoor Chronicles, a bildungsroman. Set five centuries after the events in book three, Valentine Pontifex, it details the...
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Robert Silverberg, Author Spectra Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09248-6
Silverberg's latest is his best novel in some time, returning from the extraterrestrial travelogues he offered in The Face of the Waters and Kingdoms of the Wall to Earth of the relatively near future, which has been polluted almost to...
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Robert Silverberg, Author Warner Books $0 (404p) ISBN 978-0-446-51384-5
After a recurrence of the cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs and a resulting Long Winter of 700,000 years, the eventual New Springtime sees only two of the far future Earth's original Six Peoples emerge from their deep cocoons: the resilient,...
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Robert Silverberg, Author Underwood Books $40 (128p) ISBN 978-0-88733-056-8
Remaining faithful to a literary source while expressing personal concerns is a talent Silverberg mastered in his 1984 novel Gilgamesh the King. His new novella does the same for Conrad's famous tale of a young ship's captain harboring a fugitive....
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Robert Silverberg, Author . Eos $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-380-97858-8
The prolific Silverberg (Starborne, etc.) offers a familiar odyssey spanning half a planet, two years and the gap between a child who knows everything about how his world works and a man who knows how to question it all. Destined to rule over an...
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Robert Silverberg, Author Nesfa Press $25 (395p) ISBN 978-1-886778-21-4
Continuing the 25-volume series begun by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg in 1979, master anthologist Robert Silverberg teams up with the latter to offer Robert Silverberg Presents the Great SF Stories (1964). It was the year of Dr....
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Robert Silverberg, Author ibooks $14 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7434-0718-2
In this collection of five previously published novellas, Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Silverberg interprets literary allusions literally, building complex SF scenarios from fragments taken from English literature. Silverberg's eponymous novella...
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Robert Silverberg, Author Eos $24 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-105035-0
Silverberg (Sorcerors of Majipoor) returns to his 1986 short story ""The Pardoner's Tale"" as the inspiration for this sobering and frightening novel of extraterrestrial invasion. The narrative opens seven years hence, with the arrival of alien...
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Robert Silverberg, Author Spectra Books $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08996-7
The first in a series of volumes of Silverberg's ( The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party ) Hugo and Nebula Award-winning stories among others, this collection serves as a gallery in which old and new fans may fall under the master's spell. Whether he has...
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Robert Silverberg, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (472p) ISBN 978-0-917657-60-3
For all the imagination of Silverberg's extraordinary SF, its most striking aspects in this genre of detachment and sublimated dreams are its emotional honesty and its connection to the real (sufficiently strange and dangerous) world. The reader...
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Robert Silverberg, Author . Subterranean $35 (391p) ISBN 978-1-59606-089-0
The illuminating second volume of collected short stories by one of the field's masters makes time travel easy for SF readers. In the late '50s, as genre markets dried up, Silverberg nearly abandoned SF until he won the support of legendary...
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Robert Silverberg, Author . Subterranean $35 (392p) ISBN 978-1-59606-061-6
Beginning with his very first sale, "Gorgon Planet," Hugo and Nebula award–winner Silverberg (A Time of Changes)
collects 24 stories from the prolific first five years of his career (1953–1958), each piece with a lively headnote
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Robert Silverberg, Author . Subterranean $40 (550p) ISBN 978-1-931081-99-3
Fifty years after making his first professional story sale, SFWA Grand Master Silverberg offers a compendium of 23 top-notch tales, ranging from 1954's "Road to Nightfall" to 2002's "With Caesar in the Underworld." Younger SF
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Robert Silverberg, Author . Eos $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-97859-5
In Hugo and Nebula winner Silverberg's epic alternative history, as grandly sweeping and imaginative as his celebrated Majipoor Cycle (Lord Valentine's Castle, etc.), the imperial Eternal City (aka Roma) takes 2,000 years to decline but not...
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Robert Silverberg, Author, Bob Eggleton, Illustrator . Subterranean $40 (337p) ISBN 978-1-59606-043-2
SFWA Grand Master Silverberg (Phases of the Moon
) delivers 16 deliciously slam-bang short stories from early in his career, along with engaging commentary including autobiographical insights, glimpses into his creative process and a mini-history of
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Robert Silverberg, Author, Martin Harry Greenberg, Editor Carroll & Graf Publishers $21.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-88184-692-8
This competent collection of 18 horror stories by the standard-bearers of the genre spans 138 years and represents the results of a poll taken of horror fiction readers and writers at the World Fantasy Conventions in 1981 and 1982. Edgar Allan Poe's
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Robert Silverberg, Author, John Devaney, Author, Jean Geraud Moebius, Illustrator Walker & Company $15.95 (118p) ISBN 978-0-8027-6712-7
This title in the Millennium series of illustrated SF is a striking time-travel story by much-honored Silverberg. Twins Eric and Sean Gabrielson, a paleontologist and a physicist, are chosen as the first human subjects of a secret Cal Tech...
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Robert Silverberg. Subterranean
(www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (488p) ISBN 978-1-59606-668-7
The ninth (and possibly last) book in this career-spanning series delivers 14 passable stories from the award-winning SFWA Grand Master. Silverberg’s somewhat grumpy introduction cites “a certain drying-up of inspiration” and energy in his later...
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Robert Silverberg. Subterranean, $40 (344p) ISBN 978-1-59606-799-8
Silverberg, a “wildly prolific” SFWA Grand Master and winner of many awards, celebrates his five-decade writing career with a collection of “straightforward tales of action” that were originally published in pulp magazines from 1956 to 1958 and may...
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Robert Silverberg. Subterranean, $25 (152p) ISBN 978-1-59606-845-2
Silverberg’s futuristic novella based on the Scheherezade story is a stultifyingly faithful rendition. It was originally intended as the first part of a multiauthor project for which the other authors fell through; as a result, the ending feels...
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Robert Silverberg. Three Rooms, $16 trade paper (490p) ISBN 978-1-941110-72-0
These 16 tales of time travel from SFWA Grand Master Silverberg span the length of his illustrious career and range from the minutely technical to the wildly inventive, each raising fascinating questions about the fourth dimension. A jealous ex...
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Edited by Robert Silverberg and Bryan Thomas Schmidt. Blackstone, $25.99 (488p) ISBN 978-1-66510-965-9
SFWA Grand Master Silverberg (Among Strangers) and Hugo award winner Schmidt (editor of Shattered Shields) offer a fascinating survey of how 17 legendary authors—among them Philip K. Dick, Fritz Leiber, Seanan McGuire, Connie Willis, and Roger...
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Robert Silverberg. Three Rooms, $19.95 trade paper (418p) ISBN 978-1-941110-63-8
Genre legend Silverberg’s ambition, imagination, versatility, and skill are all in evidence in this superior collection of 18 thought-provoking first-person short stories, which were written over five decades. Time and again, Silverberg sets the bar
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Robert Silverberg. Three Rooms, $16 trade paper (404p) ISBN 978-1-941110-80-5
Reaching back to the beginning of his career, SFWA Grand Master Silverberg collects 18 stories featuring alien encounters, some fond and some fearful. From the light humor of a flight attendant dealing with a group of aliens and their complaints (“En
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Robert Silverberg. Three Rooms, $16 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-953103-0-48
SFWA Grand Master Silverberg brings together 12 tension-filled speculative stories from throughout his long career in this impressive collection. Silverberg’s adventurous and melancholy tales are united in taking characters to vividly detailed...
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Robert Silverberg. Three Rooms, $16 trade paper (386p) ISBN 978-1-953103-27-7
Silverberg (Among Strangers) demonstrates why he’s earned the title of SFWA Grand Master in this immersive epic. Centuries after the destruction of Earth, humanity struggles to survive on other planets, including Hydros, a world covered in oceans...
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