The
Quasi-Official Web Site |
Editions in my
collection. Arranged
in chronological order of first publication.
Further information about each of these titles is contained in
an
excellent bibliography compiled by Jon Davis, which can be accessed
alphabetically or chronologically from the above link. All the
comments and opinions below are entirely my own input on the work
of Robert Silverberg. They are not intended to be informed
critical evaluations, but only responses from a dedicated and devoted
reader and fan.
Title |
1st
pub. |
Edition in collection |
Theme/genre |
Notes and comment |
Revolt
on Alpha C.
|
1955 |
1st paperback ed.
Scholastic
Book Service, 1955 |
Juvenile Space opera |
Robert
Silverberg's first
published novel, when he was 20 years old. Mainly of interest now
as a collector's item. |
The Thirteenth Immortal | 1956 |
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Starman's Quest | 1956 |
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Master of Life and Death | 1957 |
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The Shrouded Planet | 1957 |
With Randall Garrett, as Robert
Randall |
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The Dawning Light | 1957 |
With Ronald Garrettt as Robert Randall |
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The
Man Who Never Forgot |
1957 |
Short stories |
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Collision Course | 1958 |
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Stepsons of Terra | 1958 |
Ace Books [1976] | Interplanetary colonization |
For 500 years a distant Terran has had no communication with Earth, but now the long-forgotten planet desperately needs Earth's help. Earth has degenerated into a dfecad3nt world of worthless pleasur-seekers, and has nothing to offer, although the answer was right there for anyone who looked. Although the publication/copyright date is given as 1958, a very interestinghintroduction is dated April 1976 in this edition. Robert Silverberg explains the publishing history of this title, and the position it occupies in his early work. Stepsons was originally published in 1958 together with Man called dDstiny by Lan Wright. For some unknown reason, three different publishers issued editions under the title Shadow on the Stars in 2000, 2001 and 2002 |
Invaders from Earth | 1958 |
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Aliens from Space | 1958 |
With David Osborne |
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Invisible barriers |
1958 |
With David Osborne |
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Lest we Forget thee, Earth | 1958 |
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The Plot Against Earth | 1959 |
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The Planet Killers | 1959 |
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Lost Race of Mars | 1960 |
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The Seed of Earth | 1962 |
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Recalled to Life | 1962 |
Ace
Books, 1972.
Introduction 1977 |
Immrtality |
The
first
steps towards immortality - the discovery of a process that can bring
the dead to life. In an ineresting introduction to this revised
and revitalized 1977 edition, Robert Silverberg provides some
interesting biographicasl and career insights, and explains the
convoluted publication historty of this title |
Time of the Great Freeze |
1963 |
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One
of our Asteroids is Missing |
1963 |
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The
Silent Invaderts |
1963 |
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Regan's
Planet |
1964 |
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The
Mask of Akhnaten |
1965 |
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Conquerors
from the Darkness |
1965 |
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Needle in a Timestack | 1966 |
1st ed. . Ballantine, Nov.
1966 |
Short
stories |
Robert
Silverberg's second collection of previously-published short stories,
including the Pain Peddlers,
Passport to Sirius, Birds of a Feather, There was an Old Woman-, The
Shadow of Wings, Absolutely Inflexible, His Brother's Weeper, The Sixth
Palace, To See the Invisible Man and The Iron Chancellor. Mr.
Silverberg explains how he played "a nasty trick on bibliographers":
with the use of this title, on p. 356 of Phases
of the Moon. |
The Gate of Worlds | 1967 |
ibooks, 2005 |
Alternate history |
From
Turkish-dominated Europe , across the high seas to the land of
opportunuty, where the Aztec Empire thrivesd. A story of high
adventure from primitive Britain to industrial Mexico. |
Thorns | 1967 |
1st ed. Ballantine Aug. 1967 |
Future society |
Not in very good condition. Paper yellow and crrumbling. Duncan Chalk is a monster who feeds off the emotions of others, and uses Minnaar Burris, the disfigured starman, and Lona Kelvin, the teenager who spawned 100 babies to satisfiy his needs. It is an interesting concept, but it tends to drag in parts, when the couple go on a world and space tour, and it would probab;y have had more impact as a short story. |
Thoae
who Watch |
1967 |
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Planet of Death | 1967 |
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The Time-hoppers. | 1967 |
1st ed.. Doubleday, 1967. |
Time travel |
Earth in
the 25 century is an
unpleasant place for many of its inhabitants. The vast population
is crowded into most of the available area, and unemployment is
rampant. A highly dtrstigfied society provides luxury anspace for
the few at the top/Into this situation comes a hope of escsape - escape
into the past, before the world was so crowded. |
To Open the Sky | 1967 |
1st
ed. 2nd printing, Ballantine, Sept. . 1970 |
Future society |
Earth's
wildly overpopulasted
surfaaaaace was frenetic - the seething, rich, pleasure-loving
biullionsreacxhin, unaware, toward the mass hysteria that had
periodically destroyed lersser groups of mammals in an earlier
age. Cults, fads, madness of various kinds swept over the
population. The maddest were the Vorst worshipers, the atom
adorers, the believers in immortality through technology. |
Hawksbill
Station |
1968 |
1st ed.. Doubleday,
1968. |
Time travel |
The
men of
Hawksbill Station were outcasts and exiles. They had fought a
life-crushing dicttatorship and now they were po,litical
prisoners, a billion years in the past. There was no way back.
And then one day a stranger came ... An outstanding and
imaginative time travel novel. |
The Masks of Time | 1968 |
Gollancz, 2002 |
Future history |
It was
the
afternoon of
Christmas Day, a year before the end of the millennnium, when
Voirnan-19 materialized naked on the Spanish Steps in Rome.He claimed
to come from the far future.nd appeared to ne a charismatic meeianic
figure. Was he from the future, or wass he just a charlatanand a
fraud. |
Across
a Billion Years. |
1969 |
1st ed. Doubleday.
1969 |
Aliens |
The
members
of a 24th century
archaeological expedition, excavating for artifacts of a mysterious
civilization, are plunged into a fantastic interplanetary search for
the creaturews of that civilization. |
The Man in the Maze | 1969 |
1st ed. Equinox,
1969. |
Aliens |
Muller
had
been sent to spy on
the first alien rqacemankind had ever encountered. But his
idsentity was discovered - and the aliens cursed him with a terrible
aura which made his presence unbearable to his fellow human
beings. Embittered, he'd chosen to live ouyt his life in an
abandoned city of murderous mazeson a long-dead planet. |
Nightwings | 1969 |
4th printing, Avon,
Jan. 1979 |
Alien invasion |
It was
Avluela the Flier's ebony
and scarlet wings that led the Watcherto the seven hills of the ancient
city. In na moment of weakness, the Watcher failed his vigil,
leaving the skies and deep space unguarded. The invaders came and
conquered. |
Three
Survived |
1969 |
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Downward
to the Earth |
1969 | 1st ed. Doublday.
1969. |
Interplanetary colonization |
The
protagonist, a
former colonial official from Earth, was returning to the planet
Belzagor after an eight year absence.. Officially he was a
tourist, but in reality he was seeking redemption - redemption for the
crimes he had committed against the tqwo native species. Loosely
based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness |
Up the Line | 1969 |
6th printing, Ballantine,
1985 |
Time travel |
The
sensuous time traveeller
could make love down through the ages - u8nless he grew careless along
the way. Time Couriers took group af6ter group of tourists back
to the same historic event, zlthough it was tricky avoiding meeting
yourself coming or going. |
The
Calibrated Alligator |
1969 |
Short stories | ||
Dimension
Thirteen |
1969 |
Short stories | ||
Tower of Glass | 1970 |
Gollancz, 2000 |
Androids |
Simon
Krug
is a man with a
visionand he has the vast wealth necessary to bring it into being.He
wants to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep
space. The colossal glass tower that he is building soars high
above the Arctic tundra. The androids who are working on it are
perfect synthetic creations. They have made Krug their
goid. But he is not a god, and when the androids learn the truth,
their anger is terrible and uncontrollable. |
The
Cube Root of Uncertainty |
1970 |
Short stories | ||
Son of Man | 1971 |
Giollancz, 2003 |
Future societies |
Swept
up by
a time flux, a man
callerd Clay is flung impossibly fare into the future, and arrives on
Earth with no memory or knowledge of his culture's greatest
achieveements. It is an Earth without hunger, and where deathis
no longer an issue. He embarks i]on an extraordinary oddyssey,
encompassing billions of yars, coming to an understanding that his own
era is just a thread in the band of time and is only the dawn of man. |
A
Time of
Changes
|
1971 |
1st ed. Doublday,
1971. |
Future societies |
The
people
of Borthan are ruled
by the Covenant, Established thousands of years ago, by the
original settlers, it tqqches that the self is to be despisedans it
forbids anyonew to reveal their innermost thoughts and feelings A
few have rebelled against this repressive religion, and have oaid with
their lives for the crime of self-baring. |
The World Inside | 1971 |
1st ed. Doubleday, 1971 |
Future societies |
Man
had
attained Utopia. War, starvation, crime and birth control hasd
been eliminated.Life was totally fulfilled and sustained wwithin
mammoth skyscrapers hundreds of floors gigh. It was blessed to
have children.Contemplation of controlling families was
heretical. "Night walking" was expected of men and
womennever refused. There were a few in Urbmon 116 who were
tortured by desire for some individual quality to their lives. |
Moonferns
and Starsongs |
1971 |
Short stories | ||
The Book of Skulls | 1972 |
1st paperback ed. New American
Library, Sept. 1972 |
Immortality |
Four college students proceed into the desert aeeking the Brotherhood of the Skull and eternal life. However, for someone to gasin immortality, another life must be willingly sacrificed the city boy, a scrawny Jewish philologist who unlocks the demonic secrets of the Book of Skulls; the lapsed Catholic and sometime poet - a homosexual devil's advocate; the hayseed Greek god whose compulsion to defeat death drives him from illiteracy to Harvard to the Arizona deserrt; and the full-blooded aristocrat, seeker after nothing but his self-fulfilment. |
The Second Trip | 1972 |
1st ed. Doubleday 1972 |
Identity replacement |
The
doctors pumped him full of memory-dissolving drugs until every bit of
him was washed away, and all that remained was a kind of zombie in a
healthy empty body. Then they built a new artificial personality
with a complete set of memories from a past that had never
existed.. He had been the world's most famous psycho-sculptor,
but after Rehabilitation, his personality had been extinguished.
This
idea was first presnted in
a 1958 short story, Counterpart, about
a personality exchange between an actor and a politician. |
Valley
Beyond Time |
1972 |
Short stories | ||
The Reality Trip and Other Implausibilities | 1972 |
Short stories | ||
Dying Inside | 1973 |
2nd printing
Ballantine 1976 |
Telepathy |
A man
blessed and cursed by the
amazing gift of being able to peer into people's minds, to read
thoughts., to know their feelings, and to hear their unspoken
lies. What happens when David Selig's power begins to ebb,
stranding him slowlyin an incomprehensiblem alien world, leaving him
outwardly living, but dying inside. |
Unfamiliar
Territory |
1973 |
Short stoies | ||
The Stochastic Man | 1975 |
1st ed. Harper & Row |
Future societies |
The
central character has been
in the business of stochastic prediction during the final months of the
20th century. He discovers that he is capable of developing
seconmd sight, and the ability to see the future. |
Sunrise
on Mercury |
1975 |
Shirt stories | ||
Shadrach in the Furnace | 1976 |
1st ed. Bobbs-Merrill |
Immortality |
It is
the twenty-fifth century
and a battered worlfd is ruled by a 93 yar old dictator, his life
systems sustained by a brilliant young surgeon, Shadrach, who makes the
unsettling discovery that the Khan's mind and persona will be
transferred to his body. |
The
Best of Robert Silverberg |
1976 |
Short stories | ||
The
Shores of Tomorrow |
1976 |
Short stories | ||
Capricorn Games |
1979 |
Short stories |
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Lord Valentine's Castle | 1980 |
HarperPrism 1995 |
Fantasy |
The
Majipoor cycle begins as a young Prince Valentine travels the planet
Majipoor with a group of eccentric performers. In a quest to
discover ho Valentine really is, his wise and peculiar companions help
him lay claim to the rewards of birth that await him. |
The Desert of Stolen Dreams | 1981 |
Underwood-Miller, 1981 |
Fantasy |
1st
limited edition. No 56 of 200 speciallly bound copies,
signed by the author. Contains a number of line drawings by
Stephen E. Fabian. This is the first puyblication of one of the
stories that maaake up the Majipoor Chronicles
cycle. |
Majipoor Chronicles | 1982 |
HarperPrism, 1996 |
Fantasy |
The young street urchin Hissune gets his due from helping Lord Valentyine regain his throne. He is sent into the depths of the Labyrinth and he relives the lives of Majipoor's most famous and notorious inhabitants. This anthology contsains a numbr of stories from the earliest history of Majipoor, leqding up to the time of Lord Valentine. It includes Thesme and the Gayrhog, The Desert of Stolen Dreams, The Soul-Painter and the Shapeshifter, A Thief in Nimoya, and others. |
Lord of Darkness | 1983 |
Arbor House, 1983 |
Historical novel |
In my view,
this is the
best novel that Robert Silverberg has written.. It is not science
fiction, but an historical novel, set in the late 16th century, towards
the end of the reign of Elizabeth I. It deals with the early
history of Angola, and tells the story of Andrew Barttell, a young
British seaman-adventurer, who is captured by cutthroats in Brazil,
and shipped to the hot, steamy west African colony. He is
eventually brought into confrontation with the cannibalistic African
chief. See my review on my October 26 2006 blog. |
Valentine Pontifex | 1983 |
HarperPrism, 1996 |
Fantasy |
Dark
dreams disturb Lord Valentine's sleep, a forewarning of the danger that
threatens the peace of Majipooor. The Shapeshifters have set in
motion a terrifying plan toregain their stolen world, threir allies,
the ancient gods eisinf from their eons-long slumber beneath the
oceans.of ther great planet. |
World of a Thousand Colors | 1983 |
Bantam Books, 1984 |
Short stories |
Includes Somethig Wild is Loose, The Pain Peddlers,
Prime Commandment, To the Dark Star, and eight others. |
Robert Silverberg | 1983 |
Clareson, Thomas D.
Stormont House, 1983 |
Bibliography |
An
early collection of
biographical information, bibliography and descriptive and critical
discussion of his work up to 1983. |
Gilgamesh the King | 1984 |
Bantam, 1985 |
Immortality |
The
epic tale of Gilgamesh, the legendery god-king of Sumeria, who
discovers the secret of eternal life. - the tal of a man haunted by his
gods, tormented by his passion for a woman whowas his greatest rival,
and driven by a thirstfor immortality |
The
Conglomeroid Cocktail Party |
1984 |
Short stories |
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Sailing to Byzantium | 1985 |
1st ed. Underwood Miller 1985 |
Future societies |
Limited ed. Copy no.
25 of
250 numbered copies signed by author. In grey suede slipcase. Cover art by Ned Dameron. A very
special edition of one of Robert Silverberg's best novellas, which he
conbsiders to be his favourite (Phases of the Moon,
"remains one of my favorite stories ... it was published first as an
elegant, limited edition book, now veery hard to find, by the
house of Underwood-Miller - p. 374.
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Tom O'Bedlam | 1985 |
Donald Fine, 1985 |
Messianism |
Tom
O'Bedlam feigns madnessas a sane means
of survivalin a high tech post-industrial world. His insanit is a way
of coping with the extraordinary power he possesses - powers that
enable him to send his mind out across unimaginable gulfs of space,
touring other worlds, and capturing them in his unconscious. |
Star of Gypsies | 1986 |
Donald Fine, 1986 |
Messianism |
Autographed
by the author. The gypsies have regained their legendary
positionas the true royalty of mankind, a supreme race of people who
demonstrate their power by their ability to rove freely through time
and space. This is the story of the gypsy king Yakou, who is old
and wise and bawdy, but has now come into his own as master of the
entire human race. |
Beyond
the Safe Zone |
1986 |
Short stories | ||
Project
Pendulum |
1987 |
Walker and Co. 1987 |
Time Travel |
The first
practical experimnt in time travel. The nature of time mechasnics
requires that the two travellers' massesbe orecisely matched.For this
reason, the first time trasvellers must be a pair of identical
twins. Once ytheir ride through time progresses, there is no way
for either to leave th exxperimentuntil they reach Time Ultimate., ther
outer limits of Pendulum's reach. As the distance between the
twins grows, they wonder if they'll ever see each other again. |
Robert Silverberg's Worlds of wonder | 1987 |
Warner, 1987 |
Anthology |
A
collection of thirteen classic
sience fiction stories, selected and annotated by Robert Silverberg.,
including Damon Knight, Alfred Bester, Robert Sheckley, James H. Blish,
Philip K. Dick and C.M. Kornbluth. It is primarily intnded as a
laboratory for fledgling science fiction writers, but it also
represents the cream of the crop for the science fition reader.
The notes following each story are incisive and revealing, for writer
and reader alike. Also published as Science Fiction 101 |
Revolution on Majipoor | 1987 |
Costello, Matt. Tor, 1987 ((A
Crossreoads adventure) |
Gamer's manual |
A
gamer's manual set in the
world of Robert Silverberg's Majipoor series |
At Winter's End | 1988 |
Warner, 1988 |
Future hisory | After 26
million years of vibrant civilization the Great World ended when
falling death stars locked the Earth in ice.. But one sma;;
band of People escapedto an underground cocoon, where they and their
descendants waited for 700,000 years.. Now their long winter is
over. The omens proclaim that the time has come. Time to
emerge, time to inherit,to claim and conquer the Earth. |
The Secret Sharer |
1988 |
Underwood-Miller, 1988 |
Interstellar travel |
On his
maiden voyage the captain of a star ship is unlawfully possessedby one
of his passengers, a free spirit searching for a body. Their story is
one of self-discovery. and awakening as they explore a strange new love
amidst the splendors of the universe. Loosely based on Joseph
Conrad's novwel of the ame name. |
The Mutant Season | 1989 |
With Karen Haber, Doubleday, 1989 |
Mutant societies |
Based on a
short story by Robert Silverberg, and written in conjunction with his
wife, Karen Haber. Winter is the mutant season. When winter
comes, the mutants gather. They have always lived in the shadows,
invisible. Now thet will be tested.The firs6t mutsant
leader to emere into the light of public life has been murdered.
Findiung her assassin has fallen to the clan, a clan already beset by
the pressures of the normal world. As society faces the
implicationsof human evolution first-hand, and political maneuvering
threatens to tear the clan apart, the mutants must find a way to
protect their identity, their lovers and their very lives. |
Kilheffer, Robert. Striking a balance: Robert
Silverberg's Lord of Darkness,
Dying Inside and others |
1989 |
In The New
York Review of Science Fiction. No. 12, Aug. 1989. |
Critical essay |
Xerox copy.
A critical
discussion and comparison of several significant works by Robert
Silverberg. |
Nightfall | 1990 |
Bantam Books,
1991 |
Future societies |
An expansion of one of Isaac
Asimov's most famous short stories, in which total darkness descends on
the planetKalgash, as all six its suns disappear at the same time,
madness ensues, and civilization crumbles, once every thousand years. |
Letters from Atlantis | 1990 |
Atheneum, 1990 |
lternate history | Exquisite
cover painting by Robert Gouild. Time travel allowed Roy's
consciousness to enter the mind of the heir to Atlantis's throne, and
what he found disturbed him. Strange dreams, impossibly
fuuturistic inventions and machines. How could such an advanced city
exist at this time? Nothing had prepaered him for his final
arrival in Atlantis. According to legend it would disappear into
the sea, but he did not know when this event would take place. |
The New Springtime | 1990 |
Warner Books, 1990 |
Future history |
The sequel to At
Winter's End, in which fortyyears after the Coming Forth,
cities of the people have spread across a continentSince emerging, the
insectoid hijk hordes have believed that they,not the people, should
ingherit the earth. Only one person can stop the impending
genocidal madness. |
To the Land of the Living | 1990 |
Popular Library, 1990 |
Immortality |
A sequel to Gilgamesh
the King. Is there life after death? On;ly
one road leads to the Afterworld, the path dreaded by mortals both
large and small., the way called death. Gilgamesh of Uruk embarks
on an odyssey more arduous and harriwing than any undertaken in his
first life. |
The Face of the Waters | 1991 |
Bantam 1991 |
Quest | Earth is no
more. Centuries have passed since its fiery ffnal hour. and the
descendants of those who have managed to break freehave been scattered
across the galaxy. One such outpost is an artificial island on
the watery world of Hydros - a former penal colony from which there is
no escape. But now the island's native amphibians , repelled by
human greed and violence, have sent the unwelcome humans into exile on
the planet's vast and violent sea. They are bound for a forbidden
land masss, shrouded in myth and mysteryFourteen lost souls sail on a
shipagainst a planet mustering all its forces against them, alone on a
treacherous sea. |
Thebes of
the
Hundred Gates |
1991 |
Axolotl Press 1991 |
Time travel |
Autographed. Limited edition. of 525 unnumbered perfect bound copies, Edward Davis was a promising rookie in the Time Service. He had already made jumps into the past of two, three, and six centuries, but not even the most rigorous training could prepare him for a leap of 35C all the way back to Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt. In the blink of an eye, he finds himself in a world of temples and tombs, pharaohs and pyramids, jackal-headed gods, mummies, and talking beetles. For it is here in the heat and bustle of the teeming ancient city of Thebes that he must rescue two members of the Service lost in time. Taken in by a mysterious temple priestess and befriended by a beautiful Egyptian slave girl, Davis is sent across the Nile to the City of the Dead to learn the trade of the embalmers. But as the hour of his scheduled rendezvous with his own age rapidly approaches, Edward Davis comes face-to-face with the shattering truth behind the fate of his former comrades—and the intoxicating, seductive allure of Egypt. |
The Ugly Little Boy | 1992 |
Doubleday 1992 |
Alternative history |
Based on a
classic 1958 short story by Isaac Asimov, this second collaboration
tells the story of what happens when past and present collide, as
Stasis Technologies plucks a Neanderthal child off the prehistoric
tundra and transports it into the 21st century. The nurse
assigned to the case must somehow bridge the 40,000 year gap to
forge an emotional bond that transcends time. This novel is a grand
sweeep through time that gives us humanity both in its infancy and at
its most "civilized." |
The Positronic Man | 1992 |
Doubleday 1992 |
Androids |
The third
and final collaboration between Asimov and Silverberg, based on an
Asimov short story drawn from his classic robot tales. In the
first rush to develop robots for domestic service, a few corners are
cut, a few guesses made. Aberrations occur, as in the case
of Andrew, a most extraordinary robot who, it seems, is capable of
creating, learning, adapting and even feeling. Andrew is the
first robot of his kind, and also the last, for when the company that
manufactured him learns of his talents, they terminate the entire line,
terrified by the implications. However, his owners refuse to give him
up, while Andrew strives to achieve his own humanity. |
Kingdoms of the Wall | 1993 |
Bantam 1993 |
Quest |
It is a
tremendous presence towering over the world - Kosa Saag, the Wall
- a monstrous assemblage of cliffs, raviunes, and mountains. At the
Summit, on the highest peak of all, live the Gods themselves.
Each year forty men and women selected and trained at arduous length,
set forth on a Pilgrimage. Along the way they must brave ghosts
and ravenous Wall hawks, traverse terrifying kingdoms and blasted
landscapes of heat and ice, and face the challenge of eternal
life. When the few remaining pilgrims reach the Summit, centuries
of belief are shattered, and th world is changed forever. |
Hot Sky at Midnight | 1994 |
Bantam 1994 |
Future societies |
Centuriesd
from now ecological disaster has overtaken the earth. Humanity is
faced with two options: flee to the stars or genetically engineer
itself into a kind of creature that no longer needs to breathe
the poisoned air. Agasinst this backdrop, a mysterious spy, a
blind man with extrasensory vision and a brilliant but tortured
scientist strugglre to alter the course of the future. Meanwhile,
megacorps compete for the lucrative rights to act as humankind's
saviour. - or to steal its soul. |
Mountains of Majipoor | 1995 |
Bantam, 1995 |
Fantasy |
Set on the gigatic planet Majipoor, five hundred years after the time of Lord Valentine, this novel tells the story of young Prince Harpirias, who has been exiled to the Khyntor Marches as punishment for a youthful transgression. He sets out on a mission of negotiation and rescue with a band of soldiers and a wily Shapeshifter, facing blinding bizzards and slashing ice storms. They find themselves confronted by a forgotten culture - one mistake could mrean instant death. |
Starborne | 1996 |
Bantam 1996 |
Interstellar travel |
It promises
to be the greatest voyage of exploration in human history. From the
placid, stagnant society of 23rd century Earth comes an idea so
powerful that it seizes all humankind. A starship will be sent
deep into the unknown galaxy in search of habitable worlds, with the
hope that the challenge of colonization will somehow rekindle the dying
human spirit. Ffty men and women are chosen to crew the Wotan. each nursing his or
her own secret dreams and fears. An important member of the crew
is blind Noelle, whoase telepathic link with her twin sister on
Earth provides the only contact with Earth.. |
Sorcerers of Majipoor | 1997 |
HarperPrism 1997 |
Fantasy |
Book One of
the Prestimion
Trilogy.. A thousand years before thet time of Lord Valentinr, great
changes are at hand. It is a time of sorcery and magic:
omens are seen, prodigies are born and sea drsgons have been glimpsed
from the cliffs. Coronel Lord Confalume is about to designate Lord
Prestimiion as his successor, but his son Korsibar usurps the throne,
and siezes the Starburst Crown., plunging the world into a fearful
conflagration. |
The Alien Years | 1998 |
HarperPrism, 1999 |
Alien invasion |
Fifteen
feet tall, the Entities land in cities across Earth. Ignoring
humankind, they wall themselves in impenetrable enclaves, enslaving a
few willing collaborators with their telepathic PUSH. Then they
plunge humans into a new dark age without elctricity, allowing us to
live - but no longer as a dominant species. A few refusse
to submit to fate, including the Carmichael family, whose patriarch, an
aging colonel devoted to resistance will inspire a daring new
generation of dissidents. |
The Seventh Shrine | 1998 |
In Legends ed. by Robert Silverberg. Tor, 1998 |
Fantasy |
A story set
late in the reign of Valentine's reign as Pontifex, when the war
against the Metamorphs has been over for some years, but the process of
reconciliation is still incomplete. |
Lord Prestimion |
1999 |
HarperPrism, 1997 |
Fantasy |
Book Two of
the Prestimion
Trilogy. Prestiomion is burdened with a great secret, for he has gained
the throne through a bloody civil war which stained the rivers crimson,
and strewed the fields with severed limbs. And yet it is a war no
one remembers! The war had left a scar upon the worldd - a scar
he vowed to heal. With a phlanx of sorcerers he invoked the
awesome Spell of Oblivion and dropped it over his ravaged people like a
cloak. It was as if the war had never been. Only Prestimion
and two of his companions-in-arms remember the war. So how can he
account for the devastation that lis upon te land? |
The King of Dreams | 2001 |
EOS, 2001 |
Fantasy |
Book Three
of the Prestimion Trilogy.. The years since he first gained the
Starburst Crown have been difficult ones for Coronal Lord Prestimion
and the vast, unfathomable realm he rules. But finally peace has been
restored to Majipoor, and now it is time for Prestimion to name
the able Prince Dekkeret his succeeding Coronel., and to descend
to the Labyrinth as Pontifex. But a power from a dark past that both
men believed was dead is stirring once again - an evil more potent and
devastating than eiter leader dares to remember. |
The Longest Way Home | 2002 |
EOS, 2003 |
Quest |
Joseph
Master Keilloran The privileged heir of a great house ten thousand
miles away awakens to the din of his world imploding. Frightened
and alone, surrounded by enemies, who would kill him without question,
Joseph must now make his way across a strange , dangerous and wondrous
continent - a dfesprate journey towards a hom that myno longer exist. |
Roma Eterna | 2003 |
EOS, 2004 |
Alternate history |
No power on
earth can resist the might of Imperial Rome: so it has been and so it
shall ever be. Through brute force, terror and sheer indomitable
will, her armies have enslaved a world. Through the ages, into
tbe era of scientific advancement and astounding technology, countless
enemies and upstarts arise, only to be ground into the dust beneath the
merciless Roman bootheels. But one people who suffer and endure
throughout the many centuries of opressive rule dream of the glorious
day that is coming - when the heavens themseles will be opened to them
... and the ships they are building will carry them to the Great Exodus
to the stars. |
The Book of Changes | 2004 |
In Legends II: Shadows, Gods and
Demons. Ed. by Robert
Silverberg. Del Ray, 2004 |
Fantasy |
This
novella offers an episode
dating back to a time before any of the Majipoor novels -a period more
than 4,000 years before Valentine's time, more than three thousand
years before Prestimion. But its setting is 10,000 years after
the time of the first human settlement, and the early history of
Majipoor is already becoming legendary. It describes how the poet
Furvain came to write the great epic poem, The Book of Changes,
from
which much of this legendary history is derived. |
Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades | 2004 |
1st limited ed. (no. 357 of 1,500
copies signed by the author) Subterranean Press, 2004 |
Short stories |
This is in
my view by far the
best selection of the short stories of Robert Silverberg..H e has
selected four or five stories from each of the six decades of his
writing career, and providing fascinating autobiographical and
bibliographic comments on his work and on each of the stories. |
The
Colonel returns to the stars |
2004 |
In Between worlds. Science Fiction Book Club |
Short story |
|
The Sorcerer's apprentice | 2004 |
In Flights: extreme visions of fantasy.Roc, 2004 | Short story |
Xerox copy. A short story
set in the early days of the history of Majipoor. |
A Piece of the Great World | 2005 |
In One Million B.C.
ed. by Gardner Dozois. Science
Fiction Book Club, 2005 |
Future history |
Aeons after
the events described in At Winter's End and
The
New Springtime, an archaelogical expedition sets
out to uncover the origins of the People, before they emerged after the
Long Winter. |
The Queen of Springtime | 2005 |
Universsity of Nebraska Press, 2005 |
Future history |
A new
edition of the two volume series which began with At
Winter's End and was originally titled The New
Springtime, published in 1988 and 1990
respectively. This new edition contains a most interesting
introduction concerning Robert Sioverberg's falling-out with his
publisher, Warner, concerning the title, and why it is unlikely that
there will ever be a third volume in the series. However, this
volume contains the outline of the unpublished third volume, The
Summer of Homecoming. These two books, together
with Lord of
Darkness, represent by far my favourite Robert Silverberg works,
follewed by the Majipoor series. |
In
the Beginning |
2006 |
Short stories | ||
Hanosz Prime
goes to Old Earth |
2006 |
In Asimov's, April/May 2006 |
Short story |
|
Collected Stories v. 1: To be Continued | 2006 |
1st ed, Subterranean, 2006 |
Collected short
stories |
Stories published between 1953 and 1958 |
Collected stories v. 2: To the Dark Star | 2007 |
1st ed.
Subterranean, 2007 |
Collected short stories |
Stories published between 1962 and 1969 |
The
Emperor and the Maula |
2007 |
In The New Space Opera.
Ed. Gardner Dazois and Jonathan StrathanEos, 2007. |
Short story: Space opera |
Xerox copy. p. 334-378 |
Against the Current. | 2007 |
Fantasy and
scence fiction Oct/Nov. 2007 |
Short story
- Time travel |
A
protagonist who uncontrollably
finds himself travelling backwards in time |
Collected stories v,
3:
Something wild is loose |
2008 |
1st ed. Subterranean, 2008 | Collected short stories |
Stories
published between 1969 and
1972. |
Other
Spaces, Other Times; a Life Spent in the Future |
2009 |
Non-Stop Press |
Autobiography |
Forthcoming, May 2009. "A
collection of
previously published autobiographical essays. The only new
material is a very short introduction, but there are a lot of
interesting photographs and one page of the first s-f story I ever
wrote - The Last Days of
Saturn." (RS, Dec. 4 2008) |
Collected Stories v. 4: Trips | 2009 |
1st
ed. Subterranean, 2009 |
Collected short stories |
Stories published between 1972 and
1973 Forthcoming, May 2009. On order |
Songs of the Dying Earth. |
2009 |
Ed. George R.R. Martin and
Gardner Dozois. Subterranean Press
|
Short stories |
Forthcoming October 2009.
Contains two stories by Robert Silverberg |
The Way they Wove
the Spells in Sippulgar |
2009 |
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
60th anniversary issue, Sept./Oct 2009 |
Short story |
Forthcoming. |