Robert Silverberg
30 кн.
In his Introduction, Robert Silverberg writes: «I started [this story] in classic pulp mode, opening with my protagonist’s name, showing that he was in big trouble, and providing a setting: “Laird Hammill raced frantically through the cold night of Denerix, largest world of the Shanador system. He was somewhere on a dark, vast plain outside the city of Lombrosa, and a half mile behind him lay the useless hulk of his burned-out landcar.” The story continues that way, slam and bang and biff and...
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
"The Seventh Science Fiction Megapack" presents a terrific mix of science fiction stories, new and old, including a Hugo Award-winning story by Lawrence Watt-Evans, a Hugo Award nominee from Mike Resnick, and classics by Arthur C. Clarke, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many more. Almost 700 pages of great reading! <P> Included are: <P> ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE, by Mike Resnick<BR> A BRIEF DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES, by Michael Kurland<BR> GRANDPA?, by Edward...
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
“The Inquisitor,” was written in May, 1956 for William Hamling's IMAGINATION magazine, as Robert Silverberg writes in his lengthly introduction, «a few weeks before my graduation from Columbia, and put my own byline on it, but when Hamling published it in the December, 1956 issue of IMAGINATION it was credited to Randall Garrett, and so it has remained in bibliographies to this day. It’s my work, though: a compact synthesis, in 2500 words, of the themes of Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon...
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
"Born with the Dead" is a science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg. It describes a near-future world in which the recently dead can be «rekindled» to a new life, but one in which their personalities and attitudes are radically changed; although they possess their memories from their previous lives, their former concerns no longer appear important to them. The story parallels that of Eurydice and Orpheus in the underworld.
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
"Gilgamesh in the Outback" is a science fiction novella by American writer Robert Silverberg, a sequel to his novel Gilgamesh the King[ as well as a story in the shared universe series «Heroes in Hell.» It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1987 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1986. Real-life writers Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft feature as characters in the novella.
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
For three years, people on Earth have been subject to the will of the «Passengers»—intangible beings who usurp human bodies temporarily and without warning, and do nothing but play and cause havoc. People being «ridden» are ignored by others, and when they are freed, the experience, by social convention, is ignored by all. When the Passenger leaves the host body, the person is left with no memories of his time being ridden.<P>"Passengers" was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short...
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
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 a MEGAPACK® of his short stories, so here, then, is a selection of early works by one of the all-time greats. Included are:<BR> ALAREE<BR> BIRDS OF A FEATHER<BR> BLAZE OF...
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
This modern classic of science fiction—first published in 1996—has been reprinted more than 15 more times since its original appearance, including in a Year's Best volume.<P> * * * *<P> It was her first, his seventh. She was 32, he was 363: the good old April/September number. They honeymooned in Venice, Nairobi, the Malaysia Pleasure Dome, and one of the posh L-5 resorts, a shimmering glassy sphere with round-the-clock sunlight and waterfalls that tumbled like cascades of...
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
"Nightwings" is a science fiction novella by American wrier Robert Silverberg. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1969 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award in 1968. It won the Prix Apollo Award in 1976.<P> In a decadent and caste-based future, humanity is divided into guilds, each having a specific job to do. The members of some guilds appear to have undergone genetic engineering, for instance, the Fliers' ability to fly and the Watchers' ability to use their...
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
Aliens in all shapes and sizes—some fearsome, some outlandish, and some just plain fun—fill the pages of these hand-picked classic stories by sci-fi grand master Robert Silverberg, each featuring a new introduction by the acclaimed author. Every day we are discovering new worlds in far-reaching galaxies which may or may not sustain life as we know it. In Alien Archives: Eighteen Stories of Extraterrestrial Encounters , sci-fi Grand Master Robert Silverberg collects his finest short stories...
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
Ulmekirjandusesuurmeistri Robert Silverbergi 18 lühiromaani, jutustust ja lühijuttu viivadlugeja tuumasõjajärgsesse varemetes New Yorki, poliitvangide koonduslaagrisse,mis asub miljardi aasta kaugusel minevikus, eelajaloolisel Maal, aga kaajaparadokside, klooniperekondade ja ülihoolitsevate ning diktaatorlikemajapidamisrobotite keskele. RobertSilverberg: «Ja nõnda ongi siin, nende kaante vahel üks valik, väga selektiivnevalik neist sadadest ja sadadest lugudest, mida ma oma kirjanikutee esimese...
| Автор | Robert Silverberg |
