Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg: Volume 1 Secret Sharers [Paperback]

Robert Silverberg (Author)

Book Description

Series: Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg | Publication Date: October 1, 1992

Twenty-four stories are included in this ambitious collection of Silverberg's work, each with an introduction by the author recollecting the time and place in which they were conceived. Winner of five Nebula Awards and four Hugos, Silverberg is one of the undisputed masters of science fiction.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The first in a series of volumes of Silverberg's ( The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party ) Hugo and Nebula Award-winning stories among others, this collection serves as a gallery in which old and new fans may fall under the master's spell. Whether he has set his tale on the cold, unforgiving surface of Pluto or within a Los Angeles enslaved by aliens, Silverberg is unparalleled in dramatizing the human heart. The average marriage pales next to the intense passion achieved by a pair of loving telepaths separated by thousands of miles. A professional con man who sells bum pardons to prisoners in alien work camps finds himself bewitched by the eyes of the judge who must pass sentence on his crimes--a judge who, years earlier, was conned by him. And in the 35th century, when only one person in a million grows old, a devoted android searches the world for his aging, humiliated lover. Such stories resonate; however, when Silverberg becomes preoccupied with merely clever ideas, such as an ancient extraterrestrial computer bent on taking over the world, he's lost in space. But these very few failures are nothing more than fanciful what-ifs from an author whose work continues to expand the boundaries of the science fiction genre.
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From Library Journal

The first volume in an attempt to collect the short fiction of one of sf's virtuosos consists of 24 titles, among them, "Sailing to Byzantium," "House of Bones," and "Hannibal's Elephants."
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 568 pages
• Publisher: Spectra (October 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553370685
• ISBN-13: 978-0553370683
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #986,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great later shorts by Robert Silverberg, July 23, 2000

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David N. Reiss (Haymarket, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg: Volume 1 Secret Sharers (Paperback)

Robert Silverberg is one of the best writers of SF -- ever. From 1968 or so to the mid-70's Silverberg probably had the best five year run of any SF writer in producing great work. Novels like Nightwings, Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, and A Time of Changes, along with shorts from that period like "Good News from the Vatican"... Even Heinlein never had a straight run of great work in one five of six year period. Heck, the only similar run of great work in SF was happening almost at the same time in U.K. Le Guin's work. And this is not to leave folks like Ellison and Niven and resurent Fred Pohl's, Isaac Asimov's and Aurthur Clarke's out either. The late 60's and early 70's should really be considered the Golden Age of SF when we look back now. And it was Silverberg was was leading the pack then.

This book contains much of his good short story work from the 1980's and early 1990's. There is some good to almost great work still coming from the Typewriter/Word Processor of Silveberg. His shorts and novellas like "Mulipules", "Sailing to Byzantuim", "House of Bones" and "Enter a Soldier. Later:Enter another" are all of high caliber.

I orginally found this book in the library when I was going thru what I was catching up on SF. As soon as I have read it I wanted to own it. But I found it was out of print. We'll... It took a while, but I finally found it. And I have taken great care of it ever since.

I highly recommend this book, as well as anything else by Robert Silverberg.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Collection of a master, May 13, 2009

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B. Thompson "Purple Nadir" (Praha 2, Czechomoravska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg: Volume 1 Secret Sharers (Paperback)

Sailing to Byzantium is my favorite spec-fic tale of all time and is worth the price of admission alone. Several of the other stories are great as well.

Contents:

* "Homefaring"
* "Basileus"
* "Dancers in the Time-Flux"
* "Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory"
* "Amanda and the Alien"
* "Snake and Ocean, Ocean and Snake"
* "Tourist Trade"
* "Multiples"
* "Against Babylon"
* "Symbiont"
* "Sailing to Byzantium"
* "Sunrise on Pluto"
* "Hardware"
* "Hannibal's Elephants"
* "The Iron Star"
* "The Secret Sharer"
* "House of Bones"
* "The Dead Man's Eyes"
* "Chip Runner"
* "To the Promised Land"
* "The Asenion Solution"
* "A Sleep and a Forgetting"
* "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another"

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great collection of stories commented by the author, March 7, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg: Volume 1 Secret Sharers (Paperback)

Some stories featured show a very strong writting fiber in Mr. silverberg, some are really among the best short science fiction stories I have read, the author also shares briefly his view on each story