Robert Silverberg: 163 books

Six science fiction novellas by the author hailed as “a master” by Robert Jordan—including two Nebula Award winners and two finalists. Robert Silverberg’s novellas open the door to new worlds: In “Born with the Dead,” a woman wills her body to be “rekindled” after death, allowing...

Robert Silverberg needs little introduction to anyone at all familiar with the history of the science fiction field. Fan. Author. Editor. Creative force. He has been an integral part of the field for longer than most of his readers have been alive. Earlier this year, he kindly agreed to put together...

"The world that these stories sprang from was the troubled, bewildering, dangerous, and very exciting world of those weird years when the barriers were down and the future was rushing into the present with the force of a river unleashed. But of course I think these stories speak to our times,...

How far will four friends go for immortality? This novel is Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author “Robert Silverberg at his very best” (George R. R. Martin)****. After Eli, a scholarly college student, finds and translates an ancient manuscript called The Book of Skulls, he and his friends...

"By the time this present group of stories was written I had passed through the cultural turbulence that engulfed nearly everyone s life in the wild, stormy period we know as 'the Sixties,' which for me had actually lasted from 1968 to 1974 or 1975. I had come through my own angry four-year-long...

The stories collected here, written between August of 1987 and May of 1990, demonstrate that I still believe in the classical unities. Of course, what seems to us a unity now might not have appeared that way when H.G. Wells was writing his wonderful stories in the nineteenth century. Wells might have...

But, for all that, I went on writing short fiction all through the seventh and eighth decades of my life, and though I’m not very active these days, I would still pay attention if someone were to approach me with an interesting and challenging short-story project, or if some absolutely irresistible...

This trio of early short novels by Grand Master Robert Silverberg is straight-up pulp science fiction at its finest   As a young man, Robert Silverberg was a science fiction prodigy, turning out top-flight stories in the blink of an eye. Though written quickly, Silverberg’s early prose already...

RACCONTO LUNGO (22 pagine) - FANTASCIENZA - Da un grande autore un'accorata storia sull'America di oggi e dell'immediato futuro Da un autore eccezionale un racconto eccezionale. Eccezionale in vari sensi. "Manoscritto trovato in una macchina del tempo abbandonata", scritto da  Silverberg...

ROMANZO BREVE (89 pagine) - FANTASCIENZA - Una commedia sofisticata e affascinante alla corte del Songhai, in un mondo ucronico dove la Peste Nera ha devastato l'Europa e l'ha consegnata in mano all'Impero Ottomano Ogni storia sugli universi alternativi ha un suo punto di partenza, il punto...

This “toothy follow-up to Datlow’s first-rate Blood Is Not Enough” offers “admirably inventive variations on vampirism” (Kirkus Reviews).   Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a “consistently engrossing anthology”...

Robert Silverberg a reçu en 2004 pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre le titre de Grand Maître de la Science-Fiction, la plus haute distinction honorifique du domaine. Sur près de deux mille ans, Silverberg illustre par tableaux successifs une histoire parallèle d'un Empire Romain qui a connu...

RACCONTO (16 pagine) - FANTASCIENZA - Uomini posseduti da entità aliene, privi di ogni volontà, cercano disperatamente di ritrovare qualcosa di sé e dei propri sentimenti Premio Nebula 1969, per il miglior racconto, la storia di uomini posseduti da entità ignote. Privi della loro personalità...

Winner of the Hugo Award: This classic is an “evocative look at a crumbling Earth of the far future and a human race struggling to survive” (George R. R. Martin). “Roum is a city built on seven hills. They say it was a capital of man in one of the earlier cycles. I knew nothing of that,...