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...

Earth is overcrowded and healthy young adults are involuntarily sent to colonize other worlds via draft-like lottery. Punishments for individuals who try to disqualify themselves by inflicting self-injury. Those who voluntarily go are rewarded with status/extra resources on the new worlds. The...

pback, main characters role was to set up his cart and deep scan space for possible invasion threat. title Nightwings? Nightwatcher? Nightflyer? One characters name was Gorman or something to that effect.

I'm looking for a book I read in the early 80s. Its about a spaceman that crashed and the aliens that found him & the crash tried to put him back together but since they'd never encountered humans he was put back together wrong. He has returned home but nothing feels right to him. I thought...

So about 10 years ago I read a book and I cant remember the name of it. Its an older sci fi book from the 80s I believe....The cover has a green horned alien on the center top and maybe some other aliens around him...maybe a guy who is the lead character of the story....the title of the book may...

Hiya. This has been driving me crazy. It's (maybe) a trilogy with a Brian Aldis/ Robert Silverberge far future vibe. I'm sure the titles had a seasonal motif. It starts in what turns out to be a research lab where the scientist went into some kind of cryosleep to get past a catastrophe but they...

I read this book in the late 1970’s. The earth is one ocean with floating cities. There are humans that live on the floating cities and another species of humans that have evolved to live in the sea. I think the sea humans are called the ‘Seaborn Ones’. I do not remember the title. It was a...

This book is about the earth is covered in ice. And cities are buried underground and it is forbidden to leave. A group does leave and travels across the ice to find the city of London

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...

Many years ago (late 60's or early 70's) I read a collection of short stories about each planet in our solar system. I have tried to find the title of the book for a long time but no luck. Any one recognize the description?

Hi Guys so i have searched high and low, and i cant seem to be able to find the title or author of this book... so here goes the description.. (it was a few years back that i read it, so details are a bit fuzzy) from what i can remember, it was called "to reach the sky" or "to touch the...

Greetings and salutations! I need a little help finding a sci-fi/fantasy series I read when I was a teen in the 90's. All the details I can remember are below: The books centered around a planet that had been colonized by humans and I think at least 2 or 3 other sapient races in the distant...

hi there! about 3 months ago I read a collection of short stories by an author but I can't remember any exact details. google searches aren't helping, so possibly someone here can help. anyway, here's what I can remember: - one story was about the earth in the future, in a third or fourth...

I am looking for an old scifi book. It is about a future earth society that lives in tall skyscrapers. Cities by names we know, e.g. Calcutta, New York, etc., occupy floors within the buildings. To venture outside is considered deviant. Reproduction is encouraged. Anonymous sex is...

:cool: I was sure the title was Hydros, but there is no book I can find by that name. The story is about a planet that is mostly water, with a society of humans living precarioiusly on small islands by the good will of aquatic based creatures. People are slowly "becoming" this other race...

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...