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Robert Silverberg

(1935 - )
(Husband of Karen Haber)
aka
Ivar Jorgenson, Calvin M Knox, David Osborne, Robert Randall (with Randall Garrett)

About Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg was born in 1935 and began to write while studying for his BA at Columbia University. He is one of the most prolific of all sf writers and among his many fine novels are Dying Inside, Downward To Earth, The World Inside and Shadrach in the Furnace.

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

The Last Song of Orpheus

The Palace at Midnight

Alpha 5
(Alpha, book 5)

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Musings and Meditations: Essays and Thoughts

Hunt the Space-Witch!

Series

Nidorian (writing as Robert Randall)
1. The Shrouded Planet (1957)
2. The Dawning Light (1959)

Lord Valentine
1. Lord Valentine's Castle (1979)
2. Majipoor Chronicles (1982)
3. Valentine Pontifex (1983)

New Springtime
1. At Winter's End (1988)
2. The Queen of Springtime (1989)

Fire in Winter (with Karen Haber)
1. The Mutant Season (1989)

Lord Prestimion
1. Sorcerers of Majipoor (1996)
2. Lord Prestimion (1999)
3. The King of Dreams (2001)

Novels

Revolt on Alpha C (1955)
Master of Life and Death (1957)
The 13th Immortal (1957)
Invaders from Earth (1958)
The Silent Invaders (1958)
Stepsons of Terra (1958)
Aliens From Space (1958) (writing as David Osborne)
Invisible Barriers (1958) (writing as David Osborne)
Lest We Forget Thee, Earth (1958) (writing as Calvin M Knox)
Starhaven (1958) (writing as Ivar Jorgenson)
The Planet Killers (1959)
Starman's Quest (1959)
The Plot Against Earth (1959) (writing as Calvin M Knox)
Planet of Death (1960)
Lost Race of Mars (1960)
Collision Course (1961)
Recalled to Life (1962)
The Seed of Earth (1962)
Regan's Planet (1964)
Time of the Great Freeze (1964)
One of Our Asteroids is Missing (1964) (writing as Calvin M Knox)
Conquerors from the Darkness (1965)
We the Marauders (1965)
The Gate of Worlds (1967)
Thorns (1967)
Those Who Watch (1967)
The Time Hoppers (1967)
To Open the Sky (1967)
The Masks of Time (1968)
aka Vornan-19
Hawksbill Station (1968)
aka The Anvil of Time
Across a Billion Years (1969)
The Man in the Maze (1969)
Three Survived (1969)
To Live Again (1969)
Nightwings (1969)
Up the Line (1969)
Downward to the Earth (1970)
World's Fair 1992 (1970)
Tower of Glass (1970)
Son of Man (1971)
A Time of Changes (1971)
The World Inside (1971)
Dying Inside (1972)
The Second Trip (1972)
The Book of Skulls (1972)
The Stochastic Man (1975)
Shadrach in the Furnace (1976)
The Desert of Stolen Dreams (1981)
Lord of Darkness (1983)
Gilgamesh the King (1984)
Sailing to Byzantium (1985)
Tom O'Bedlam (1985)
Star of Gypsies (1986)
Project Pendulum (1987)
The Secret Sharer (1988)
Springtimes End (1988)
The New Springtime (1989)
To the Land of the Living (1989)
In Another Country (1989)
Letters from Atlantis (1990)
Nightfall (1990) (with Isaac Asimov)
Child of Time (1991) (with Isaac Asimov)
The Face of the Waters (1991)
Kingdoms of the Wall (1992)
Thebes of the Hundred Gates (1992)
The Positronic Man (1992) (with Isaac Asimov)
The Ugly Little Boy (1992) (with Isaac Asimov)
Hot Sky at Midnight (1993)
The Mountains of Majipoor (1995)
Starborne (1995)
The Realm of Prester John (1996)
The Alien Years (1998)
Shadow on the Stars (2000)
Cronos (2001)
The Longest Way Home (2002)
Roma Eterna (2003)

Omnibus

A Robert Silverberg Omnibus (1981)
Edge of Light (1988)
Sailing to Byzantium / Seven American Nights (1989)
Beyond the Gate of Worlds (1991) (with John Brunner and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro)

Collections

Chapbooks

Absolutely Inflexible (1998)
Hunter in the Forest (2001)
Seventh Shrine (2004)

Novellas

The Last Song of Orpheus (2010)

Series contributed to

Nebula Award Stories
The Nebula Awards 18 (1983)

The Mammoth Book of ... (with Martin H Greenberg)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame

Nebula Awards Showcase
2. Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 (2001)

Anthology series

Alpha
1. Alpha One (1970)
2. Alpha 2 (1971)
3. Alpha 3 (1972)
4. Alpha 4 (1974)
5. Alpha 5 (1974)
6. Alpha 6 (1975)
7. Alpha 7 (1976)
8. Alpha 8 (1976)
9. Alpha 9 (1978)

New Dimensions
New Dimensions 1 (1972)
New Dimensions 2 (1972)
New Dimensions 3 (1974)
New Dimensions 4 (1974)
New Dimensions 5 (1975)
New Dimensions 8 (1978)
The Best of New Dimensions (1979)
New Dimensions 9 (1979)
New Dimensions 10 (1980)
New Dimensions 11 (1980) (with Marta Randall)
New Dimensions 12 (1981) (with Marta Randall)

Alien Stars (with Elizabeth Mitchell)
2. After the Flames (1985)

Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction (with Isaac Asimov, Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
6. Neanderthals (1987)

Time Gate (with Bill Fawcett)
1. Time Gate (1989)
2. Dangerous Interfaces (1990)

Ultimate... (with Byron Preiss)
The Ultimate Dinosaur (1991)

Anthologies edited

Non fiction

Home of the Red Man (1963)
The Man Who Found Nineveh: The story of Austen Henry Layard (1964)
Men Who Mastered the Atom (1965)
Scientists and Scoundrels: A Book of Hoaxes (1965)
The Morning of Mankind: Prehistoric Man in Europe (1967)
The Search for El Dorado (1967)
The Golden Dream (1967)
Ghost Towns of the American West (1968)
Mound-Builders of Ancient America (1968)
Stormy Voyager: The Story of Charles Wilkes (1968)
The South Pole (1968)
World of Ocean Depths (1968)
Bruce of the Blue Nile (1969)
The Challenge of Climate: Man and His Environment (1969)
Vanishing Giants: The Story of the Sequoias (1969)
Wonders of Ancient Chinese Science (1969)
Auk, the Dodo and the Oryx (1969)
The World of Space (1969)
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (1970)
Mammoths Mastodons and Man (1970)
Clocks for the Ages: How Scientists Date the Past (1971)
The Pueblo Revolt (1971)
To the Western Shore: Growth of the United States, 1776-1853 (1971)
Into Space (1971) (with Arthur C Clarke)
The Longest Voyage: Circumnavigators in the Age of Discovery (1972)
John Muir: Prophet Among the Glaciers (1972)
Galactic Dreamers: Science Fiction As Visionary Literature (1977)
Treasures Beneath the Sea (1986)
Reflections and Refractions: Thoughts on Science-fiction and Science (1997)
Other Spaces, Other Times: A Life Spent in the Future (2009)
Musings and Meditations: Essays and Thoughts (2010)

$Reflections and Refractions: Thoughts on Science-fiction and Science$

Anthologies containing stories by Robert Silverberg

Short stories

	The Silent Colony (1954)
	Absolutely Inflexible (1956)
	Double Dare (1956)
	The Great Kladnar Race (1956) (with Randall Garrett)
	Hopper (1956)
	Slaves of the Star Giants (1956)
	The Songs of Summer (1956)
	To be continued (1956)
	The Artefact Business (1957)
	Blaze of Glory (1957)
	En Route to Earth (1957)
	Eve and the Twenty - Four Adams (1957)
	Hidden Talent (1957)
	The Man Who Never Forgot (1957)
	One - Way Journey (1957)
	The Overlord's Thumb (1957)
	Precedent (1957)
	Prime Commandment (1957)
	The Shrines of Earth (1957)
	Solitary (1957)
	Sunrise on Mercury (1957)
	Warm Man (1957)
	World of a Thousand Colors (1957)
	The Four (1958)
	Alaree (1958)
	Back from the Grave (1958)
	Birds of a Feather (1958)
	Hunt the Space-Witch! (1958)
	The Iron Chancellor (1958)
	Journey's End (1958)
	Passport to Sirius (1958)
	Road to Nightfall (1958)
	There Was an Old Woman (1958)
	Counterpart (1959)
	Demons of Cthulhu (1959)
	His Brother's Weeper (1959)
	Mugwump Four (1959)
	The Outbreeders (1959)
	Translation Error (1959)
	Dark Companion (1960)
	The Pain Peddlers (1963)
	The Shadow of Wings (1963)
	To See the Invisible Man (1963)
	The Desiccator (1964)
	Force of Mortality (1964)
	Godling, Go Home! (1964)
	The Lonely One (1964)
	The Man With Talent (1964)
	Neighbor (1964)
	There's No Place Like Space (1964)
	Why? (1964)
	The World We Left Behind (1964)
	The Sixth Palace (1965)
	By the Seawall (1966)
	Halfway House (1966)
	A Man of Talent (1966)
	Bride 91 (1967)
	Flies (1967)
	Hawksbill Station (1967)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	The King of the Golden River (1967)
	As Is (1968)
	Fangs of the Trees (1968)
	Going Down Smooth (1968)
	Nightwings (1968)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo
	Passengers (1968)		Nebula Hugo (nominee)
	To the Dark Star (1968)
	After the Myths Went Home (1969)
	How It Was When the Past Went Away (1969)
	Sundance (1969)
	To Jorslem (1969)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	Black is Beautiful (1970)
	Ishmael in Love (1970)
	The Pleasure of Their Company (1970)
	The Reality Trip (1970)
	Ringing the Changes (1970)
	The Song the Zombie Sang (1970) (with Harlan Ellison)
	We Know Who We Are (1970)
	The World Outside (1970)		Hugo (nominee)
	Caliban (1971)
	Going (1971)
	Good News from the Vatican (1971)		Nebula
	In Entropy's Jaws (1971)
	Something Wild Is Loose (1971)
	Caught in the Organ Draft (1972)
	Now+n Now-n (1972)
	Push No More (1972)
	Thomas the Proclaimer (1972)
	What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper (1972)
	When We Went to See the End of the World (1972)		Hugo (nominee)
	Breckenridge and the Continuum (1973)
	The Feast of St. Dionysus (1973)
	Getting Across (1973)
	In the Group (1973)
	Many Mansions (1973)
	MS Found in an Abandoned Time Machine (1973)
	The Mutant Season (1973)
	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame (1973)
	Ship-Sister, Star-Sister (1973)
	Some Notes on the Pre-dynastic Epoch (1973)
	This Is the Road (1973)
	The Wind and the Rain (1973)
	Born with the Dead (1974)		Nebula Hugo (nominee)
	Capricorn Games (1974)
	The Day the Founder Died (1974)
	The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV (1974)
	In the House of Double Minds (1974)
	Schwartz Between the Galaxies (1974)		Hugo (nominee)
	A Sea of Faces (1974)
	Trips (1974)
	Our Lady of the Sauropods (1980)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Desert of Stolen Dreams (1981)
	How They Pass the Time in Pelpel (1981)
	The Palace at Midnight (1981)
	The Regulars (1981)
	The Soul Painter and the Shape Shifter (1981)
	A Thousand Paces Along the Via Dolorosa (1981)
	Waiting for the Earthquake (1981)
	Among the Dream - Speakers (1982)
	At the Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (1982)
	Calantine Explains (1982)
	The Changeling (1982)
	Crime and Punishment (1982)
	The Far Side of the Bell-Shaped Curve (1982)
	Gianni (1982)
	In the Fifth Year of the Voyage (1982)
	Jennifer's Lover (1982)
	The Man Who Floated in Time (1982)
	Not Our Brother (1982)
	The Pope of the Chimps (1982)		Nebula (nominee)
	Thesme and the Ghayrog (1982)
	A Thief in Ni - moya (1982)
	The Time of the Burning (1982)
	The Trouble With Sempoanga (1982)
	Voriax and Valentine (1982)
	Amanda and the Alien (1983)
	Basileus (1983)
	Dancers in the Time-Flux (1983)
	Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory (1983)
	Homefaring (1983)		Nebula (nominee)
	Multiples (1983)
	Needle in a Timestack (1983)
	The Affair (1984)
	Snake and Ocean, Ocean and Snake (1984)
	Tourist Trade (1984)
	Sailing to Byzantium (1985)		Nebula Hugo (nominee)
	Sunrise on Pluto (1985)
	Symbiont (1985)
	Against Babylon (1986)
	Blindsight (1986)
	Gilgamesh in the Outback (1986)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo
	Watchdogs (1986)
	Hardware (1987)
	The Iron Star (1987)
	The Pardoner's Tale (1987)
	The Secret Sharer (1987)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	The Dead Man's Eyes (1988)
	Hannibal's Elephants (1988)
	House of Bones (1988)
	The Asenion Solution (1989)
	Batman in Nighttown (1989) (with Karen Haber)
	Chip Runner (1989)
	Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another (1989)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo
	A Sleep and a Forgetting (1989)
	To the Promised Land (1989)
	Lion Time in Timbuctoo (1990)
	The Perfect Host (1992)
	Hot Times in Magma City (1995)
	The Red Blaze is the Morning (1995)
	Crossing Into the Empire (1996)
	Death Do Us Part (1996)
	Diana of the Hundred Breasts (1996)
	The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James (1996)
	Beauty in the Night (1997)
	The Colonel in Autumn (1998)
	The Seventh Shrine (1998)
	A Hero of the Empire (1999)
	A Killing Light (1999) (with Karen Haber)
	A Happy Day in 2381
	It Comes and Goes

Awards

	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1968) : Hawksbill Station
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1968) : Hawksbill Station
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1968) : Thorns
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1968) : Thorns
	Hugo Best Novella winner (1969) : Nightwings
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1969) : Nightwings
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1969) : The Masks of Time
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1970) : To Jorslem
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1970) : To Jorslem
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1970) : Passengers
	Nebula Best Short story winner (1970) : Passengers
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1970) : Up the Line
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1971) : The World Outside
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1971) : Tower of Glass
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1971) : Tower of Glass
	Nebula Best Short story winner (1972) : Good News from the Vatican
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1972) : A Time of Changes
	Nebula Best Novel winner (1972) : A Time of Changes
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1973) : When We Went to See the End of the World
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1973) : The Book of Skulls
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1973) : The Book of Skulls
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1973) : Dying Inside
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1973) : Dying Inside
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1975) : Schwartz Between the Galaxies
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1975) : Born with the Dead
	Nebula Best Novella winner (1975) : Born with the Dead
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1976) : The Stochastic Man
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1976) : The Stochastic Man
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1976) : The Stochastic Man
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1977) : Shadrach in the Furnace
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1977) : Shadrach in the Furnace
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1981) : Our Lady of the Sauropods
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1981) : Lord Valentine's Castle
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1983) : The Pope of the Chimps
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1984) : Homefaring
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1986) : Sailing to Byzantium
	Nebula Best Novella winner (1986) : Sailing to Byzantium
	Hugo Best Novella winner (1987) : Gilgamesh in the Outback
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1987) : Gilgamesh in the Outback
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1988) : The Secret Sharer
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1988) : The Secret Sharer
	Hugo Best Novellette winner (1990) : Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1990) : Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another

Books about Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg (1968) by Thomas D Clareson
Robert Silverberg, a Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1983) by Thomas D Clareson
Science Fiction Voices No 2: Interviews with Ray Bradbury, A.E. Van Vogt, Robert Silverberg and Others (1990) by J M Elliot

Robert Silverberg recommends

Sword of the Demon (1976) Richard A Lupoff "A sensuous, exotic odyssey through demon-haunted seas of swordplay, sorcery, conflict, and passion . . . "	L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XV (1999) (Writers of the Future, book 15) Algis Budrys and L Ron Hubbard "I was delighted by the high level of accomplishment. It fills me with hope for the future of SF."	Demons (2000) John Shirley "Destined to become a new major voice in science fiction."
Lion's Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America (2002) Steven Barnes "History turned upside-down-a bold, daring speculation."	Counting Heads (2005) David Marusek "He writes with power and authority and great visionary force."	The Last Green Tree (2006) Jim Grimsley "One of the most exciting new voices in science fiction."

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