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Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Robert Silverberg
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  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.
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Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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 A perfect simulation of historic figures may be more than the simulators have bargained for. (Published: 1989) Hugo Award Winner
Words: 15377 - Reading Time: 43-61 min.
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Passengers [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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He didn't want to be afflicted by the passengers, his own body housing them against his will. This time the passenger seems to have been with a woman, and now the unwilling host is obsessed to find her. (Published: 1968) Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 4851 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
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Death Do Us Part [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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People live almost forever, but what about their marriages? (Published: 1997)
Words: 7763 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
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At Winter's End [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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[First of 2 "New Springtime" novels.] Everyone on Earth for a million years or more had known that the death-stars were coming, that the Great World was doomed. One could not deny that; one could not hide from that. They had come before and surely they would come again, for their time was immutable, every twenty-six million years, and their time had come 'round once more. One by one they would crash down terribly from the skies, falling without mercy for thousands or even hundreds of thousands o... more info>> (Published: 1988) Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 165103 - Reading Time: 471-660 min.
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Born With the Dead [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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His wife was among the rekindled dead now. He'd heard that she was on a plane to Zanzibar with five other rekindled dead. As a "warm" he was not really allowed to make contact with her. The dead liked to stay in their cold-cities. But he'd loved her so much when she was alive, he just had to try. (Published: 1977) Science Fiction Hall of Fame Pick, Nebula Award(R) Winner, Hugo Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Winner
Words: 25952 - Reading Time: 74-103 min.
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Collecting Team [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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Zoologists on an alien world are surprised to find stranger-than-normal creatures. Then the real trouble began. (Published: 1956)
Words: 5089 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
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Lord Valentine's Castle [Majipoor Chronicles] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Robert Silverberg
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Come to the magical planet of Majipoor. Follow Valentine as he joins a motley band of jugglers to seek the secret of his lost past across a wide and wondrous world. In the shattered city of the Shapeshifters, in the temple of the Lady of Sleep and the Isle of the King of Dreams. From the depths of a dying emperor's dark domain, to the destiny that awaits him high atop Lord Valentine's Castle. (Published: 2004)
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Starborne [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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It is the 23rd century and human endeavor has plateaued. Nothing is new. Science and culture have little left to discover. The human race is stagnant and the human spirit suffering, corroding. However, one last mission into the unknown remains. Unfortunately the future of the species depends on its success. A new type of starship, the Wotan, is built to send mankind on a search for a virgin world where humans can flourish under the challenge of reinvention. Knowing there is no return for them, t... more info>> (Published: 1996)
Words: 84313 - Reading Time: 240-337 min.
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Basileus [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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A socially introverted missile guidance systems programmer develops an unusual hobby as he begins creating angels on his home computer system. The interactive Biblical sprites--both good and bad--provide an amusing diversion that swiftly develops into an obsession with the nature of good and evil ... a precarious psychological dilemma for someone who can trigger global thermonuclear war with the touch of a key. (Published: 1983) Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 6646 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
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Gilgamesh in the Outback [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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In Satan's Kingdom, an unhappy Gilgamesh hunts the demonic beasts of Hell alone, without his lifelong friend Enkidu, for they have parted ways following a disagreement. He joins Robert Howard and H.P. Lovecraft, travelling ambassadors for King Henry VIII, to subvert a plot by Queen Elizabeth, who plans to build a fortress at Hell's Exit. (Published: 1986) Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Hugo Award Winner
Words: 21650 - Reading Time: 61-86 min.
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Nightwings [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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This is a truly wonderful story. The far-future setting is full of strangeness taken for granted, with a rich diversity of life on Earth reminiscent to a modern reader of Gene Wolfe's Urth of the New Sun series. Civilization on Earth has been through several cycles of advance and decline and the planet is filled with the artifacts of the past: semi-functional fusion plants, magic-tech monuments, Roman buildings. There are apparently many planets full of humans and other races, some of whom come ... more info>> (Published: 1968) Nebula Award(R) Finalist, Hugo Award Winner
Words: 65315 - Reading Time: 186-261 min.
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The Man in the Maze [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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As the first human to interact with an intelligent alien species, Richard Muller learned almost nothing during his year-long visit to the home planet of the strange, silent Hydrans. At the end of his mission, Muller discovers that the Hydrans secretly altered his mind to radiate his emotions to any human who comes near. He quickly learns from his friends and companions that experiencing the horrifying reality of a human soul invariably induces revulsion and despair. Rejected from society, Muller... more info>> (Published: 1969)
Words: 62661 - Reading Time: 179-250 min.
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Beauty in the Night [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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One of Silverberg's most recent short works, this sweeping story has received widespread critical acclaim. It tells the tale of a boy who grew up to challenge The Entities, a group of alien invaders who took over the earth in a single day. The story is rich in detail and background, and tells a drama both of human failings and courage under extreme adversity. (Published: 1997) Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 15405 - Reading Time: 44-61 min.
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Chip Runner [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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A psychologist explores a boy's life-threatening obsession with the infinitely small. (Published: 1989)
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Double Dare [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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Two earthling engineers take an unlikely bar-room bet with a race of aliens. The whole thing gets out of hand, or in the case of the aliens out of tentacle.… (Published: 1956)
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Flies [MultiFormat]
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An alien race tries to reconstruct a horribly wounded man, but they decide to make one or two minor alterations while they're at it. At least they thought the alterations were minor… (Published: 1967)
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Hawksbill Station [novel version] [MultiFormat]
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In the mid-21st century, time travel is used to send political prisoners to Hawksbill Station, a prison camp in the late Cambrian Era. When the latest arrival suspiciously deflects questions about his crimes and knowledge of 'Up Front', the inmates decide to find out his secret. [NOTE: a novella length version of this story is also available.] (Published: 1968) Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 51294 - Reading Time: 146-205 min.
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In the Group [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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A man with nineteenth century romantic ideas finds that possessiveness is incompatible with his virtual-sex orgy group. [Strong Sexual Content] (Published: 1973)
Words: 5913 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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Looking for the Fountain [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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A soldier traveling with Ponce de Leon recounts a different version of the search for the fountain of youth. (Published: 1992)
Words: 9472 - Reading Time: 27-37 min.
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Multiples [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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In a futuristic San Francisco, society people with multiple personalities band together to form their own subculture. (Published: 1983)
Words: 7373 - Reading Time: 21-29 min.
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Sailing to Byzantium [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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In the 50th century, a man tours a world he no longer recognizes--but longs to sail to Byzantium. A very visual, rich, textured story by Silverberg that took the 1985 Nebula Award(R). (Published: 1985) Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 24469 - Reading Time: 69-97 min.
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Shadrach in the Furnace [MultiFormat]
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It is the twenty-first century, and a battered world is ruled by an old tyrant, Genghis II Mao IV Khan. The Khan is ninety-three years old, his life systems sustained by the skill of Mordecai Shadrach, a brilliant young black surgeon whose chief function is to replace Khan's worn-out organs. Within the vast tower-complex, the most advanced equipment is being used for three top-priority projects, each designed to keep the Khan immortal. Most sinister of these is Project Avatar, by which the Khan'... more info>> (Published: 1976) Nebula Award(R) Finalist, Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 90887 - Reading Time: 259-363 min.
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Son of Man [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
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Clay was a man of the 20th century, suddently thrust into earth's far future where even the continents had changed shape. Now humans and other creatures are fantastically evolved and unfamiliar to him. His days of being a man are at an end--now is his time to become Son of Man. (Explicit sexual content) (Published: 1971)
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Symbiont [MultiFormat]
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Chollie and Fazio are grunts in the long war against the alien Ovoids. The Ovoids use a nasty biological weapon called a synsym, which invades its victim's nervous system in a particularly nasty way. The two soldiers have a pact: if either of them should be attacked by a synsym, the other will shoot him immediately to avoid infection. But when it comes right down to it, could you really kill your own buddy? (Published: 1985)
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