robert silverberg

Hello I am looking for a book I read some years ago. I believe it was a trilogy. The book was about a group of people living in a cave. they were not allowed to venture out of the cave. They had been in the cave for generations. Eventually a youngster ventured out of the cave and found it to...

I am racking my brain to remember the name of a book or books about a giant fantasy world from the 70s or 80s. The "hero" has no memory of his past but eventually learns that he is lord of the planet, and passes through a series of cities that wrap around a mountain...and he eventually reaches...

I read this long ago, probably late 80s, maybe early 90s. As I recall it the book is at least somewhat dystopian. The book has most people living in giant towers in a future earth. The main character leaves (escapes?) at some point and discovers the farmer-peoples live in somewhat primitive...

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...

Searching for title and author: I read a book in the early 80's or late 70s which involved a resort planet with an indigenous elephant species assumed to be less intelligent. As it turned out the entire planet had a psychic/spiritual link encompassing all oganic creations. The "elephants" were...

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...

Born with the Dead, by Robert Silverberg For a big part of his career it seemed to me like Robert Silverberg was not very interested in writing conclusions to his stories, and in some cases would even abandon any kind of plot too. In their places though he became quite adept at character and...

I read it many years ago, got it at my HS library. It's sorta a horror/thriller book and its about this group of teenagers/college students who find a skull or some bone fragment and they are on a road trip (I think) and its set in the Arizona or New Mexico desert. Many bad things happen to them...

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...

I read a novella in one of the pulp magazines in 1974 or 75. The plot was: After death people could choose to be resurrected (re-kindled) and spend a second lifetime, living in segregated communities (coldtowns) and pursue a hedonistic life such as hunting reconstituted extinct species such as...

Greetings, I am trying to track down a book I read a long time ago. The story goes that the space empire would conscript soldiers into the army - some worked out well and others didnt. The ones that did i belive were refered to as colonials. the tale is of one soldier who skin is embeded with...

many years ago, i read a science fiction book, that i believe was the first in a series. i have forgotten the name and the author, and have been unable to locate anyone who can help me, but i'm hoping that someone here can....it was a fairy long book that takes place on earth, but tens(maybe...

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...

Please start whenever you'd like - I'm not trying to rush anyone - I just wanted to get the thread posted so that whenever anyone feels like posting their thoughts, ideas, questions or whatnot regarding the work, they could do so.