robert silverberg

I am currently on a mission to read (or in some cases, reread) the great novels of Robert Silverberg. By ‘great’ I of course mean those written in that short but productive period between the late 60’s and early 70’s (Lord Valentine’s Castle? You can keep it!). I originally came across...

The Book of Skulls Robert Silverberg Del Rey, Feb 2006, $12.95 ISBN: 0345471385 The Manhattan Jew Eli found THE BOOK OF SKULLS in a Columbia University library. He and is three Harvard University mates, Timothy, Oliver, and Ned agree to head to Arizona where the monks reside who control the...

Downward to the Earth Robert Silverberg Orb, Aug 7 2012, $15.99 ISBN: 9780765331731 After years of exploiting the natives of Holman’s World, the human Company left. Though the Company never looked back at what they did to the flora, fauna and two sentient populations (the elephant-like Nildoror...

Couldn't find a thread about Silverberg. I know this guy has written a lot of books. Like Phil Dick numbers. So far I've only read Dying Inside. Not what I was expecting. Very 'literary', as they say ;) interesting. But as typical of a lot of first person narratives I've come across, it was...

This book was first published in 1998 but I started to read it only recently, because it was chosen for the Modern Science Fiction discussion group. Silverberg is one of a number of authors whose works I absorbed in quantity in the 1960s and 70s, but I was not a particular fan and haven't kept...

My husband thrust Lord Valentine's Castle, along with all it's aweful 70's style high fantasy cover art into my hands, and told me "If you like Michael Moorcock, you'll probably like this", and he was right. Story starts out pretty simple, Valentine wakes up knowing his name and where he is and...

Click here to see the book review. Click here to see the article on this story in my brand new Law and SF blog. One of the things that I personally like about Robert Silverberg is that he does not harp on an idea too long, and by that I mean that even though he is a prolific author with...

I was just going to the author section to check out the Robert Silverberg discussions when I realized there is NO forum dedicated to the man. Are you guys nuts?:p The man was a freaking genius. A brilliant stylist, great character writer, and he walked like no one else the fine line between SF...

Across A Billion Years By Robert Silverberg First Published in 1969 In the year 2375, Tom Rice is a young archaeologist attached to a two-year dig on Highby V. It is a search for artefacts belonging to a long-lost and ancient race known simply as The High Ones. Throughout known space...

Not much about him here so I thought I’d remedy that. He seems to be one of those writers that manages to straddle SF and Fantasy. Valentine Pontifex and The Majipoor Chronicles are (to me) much closer to Fantasy than Science Fiction so I wasn’t sure where to stick this post. However, other...

Newsarama covers the adaptation of Robert Silverberg's 'The Seventh Shrine', as it is in the process of being adapted into a graphic novel. Here is the link, please feel free to read it and speak your thoughts about how great Mr. Silverberg is as a science fiction writer :)...