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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Arthurian, [6392591].
The Best of Robert Silverberg "One of the great writers of his time." BARRY N. MALZBERG Robert Silverberg: a giant among science fiction writers, a master of the macabre, the fantastic, the satirical and the startling. Here's the best of his shorter fiction. HAWKSBILL STATION: one of the great classics of time travel; NIGHTWINGS: the Hugo-award-winning masterpiece; PASSENGERS: the frosty Nebula winner: GOOD NEWS FROM THE VATICAN: Smart and elegant, a Nebula Award winner; and six other excellent stories ---- About the author: Robert Randall is a pseudonym for the authors Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett, for the works they wrote together. Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction’s most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth and Lord Valentine’s Castle, as well as At Winter’s End, also available in a Bison Books edition. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. Silverberg is one of twenty-nine writers to have received that distinction. ---- Quotes from Robert Silverberg: "Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting." — Robert Silverberg "Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature and the insecure and the ignorant. We who see through such institutions should be content to live together without legal coercion." — Robert Silverberg "It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies." — Robert Silverberg (Dying Inside) ---- Reviews from readers: "Oh, boy, these stories. The vivid power of them, the nuclear-bomb imagination, the intelligence, the depth. These are stories that fully transcend the genre... which is a problem with SF as a category: how can you even compare “Star Wars” to Silverberg ? And yet, they both fall in the SF bucket, even if Star Wars is to Silverberg what “Fifty Shades of Grey” is to Ian McEwan or Philip Roth. There, I said it, and I’ll say it again: as far as science fiction stories go, Star Wars really sucks. It’s so, so bad. If you like speculative fiction and you haven’t read Silverberg yet, I kindly suggest you drop everything you’re reading and dive into his entire body of work. That’s what I intend to do in the coming months, anyway. I’ve read maybe 5 or 6 books of his so far, ALL of them diamonds. I found this 1975 anthology in a used bookstore in LA, nice and yellowed with that great mystical old-book scent. It includes 10 of the best stories written by Robert Silverberg from 1958 to 1971. Two of them are Nebula award winners, one is a Hugo award winner, and the other ones were nominated for one or the other. 1. Road to Nightfall - In a city of starving people only a certain kind of merchant is still in business... yep, it’s about cannibalism. 2. Warm man - A new neighbour appears, with the magnetic powers of a bizarre confessor. 3. To see the invisible man - A future where the punishment for some crimes is “invisibility”, even though people can still see you: they will see the mark on your forehead and avoid you. A story that was made into an episode of the “Amazing stories” TV show. 4. The Sixth Palace - A variation on the theme of the enigmatic Sphinx. A robot guards a vast treasure - you need to answer his questions correctly if you want access to the treasure. Very amusing. 5. Flies - Aliens save an astronaut and send him back to Earth ... only, something is not right with him. 6. Hawksbill Station - Those accused of sedition , in a right-wing government of 2010, are sent back in time to the Pleistocene, with a time machine that works only one-way. I loved this story especially for the main character, he was so alive and vibrant and sprung out of the pages. 7. Passengers - Invaders whimsically take over men and women, body and soul. 8. Nightwings - My favorite story (and the longest one) of the lot. The epic journey of the Watcher and the characters around him. The core of the story almost sounds like a dream or a hallucination. (Silverberg expanded it into a novel later on). 9. Sundance - A team of scientists exterminate “pests” on a new world without trying to learn their true nature. Echoes of “Downward to Earth”. 10. Good news from the Vatican - The story of the first robot who was elected Pope." - Tom LA ---- Condition: Like new. Pages darkened due to age. Slightly bumped cover edges. Comparable new price: €15.00 (incl. shipping). Your savings on a new purchase: -10% or -1.95 € (incl. Shipping). ---- Weitere interessante Bücher auf: / More interesting books on: t1p.de/arthurian-scifi (Science Fiction) t1p.de/arthurian-en (Englische Bücher / English books) t1p.de/arthurian-fav2 (die beliebtesten Bücher / the most popular books) t1p.de/arthurian-fav (beliebte Bücher / popular books) t1p.de/arthurian (das gesamte Sortiment / the entire range), 1978, Taschenbuch, wie neu, 250g, 3. Auflage, 258, Internationaler Versand, Banküberweisung, PayPal, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Arthurian, [6392591].
The Best of Robert Silverberg "One of the great writers of his time." BARRY N. MALZBERG Robert Silverberg: a giant among science fiction writers, a master of the macabre, the fantastic, the satirical and the startling. Here's the best of his shorter fiction. HAWKSBILL STATION: one of the great classics of time travel; NIGHTWINGS: the Hugo-award-winning masterpiece; PASSENGERS: the frosty Nebula winner: GOOD NEWS FROM THE VATICAN: Smart and elegant, a Nebula Award winner; and six other excellent stories ---- About the author: Robert Randall is a pseudonym for the authors Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett, for the works they wrote together. Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction’s most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth and Lord Valentine’s Castle, as well as At Winter’s End, also available in a Bison Books edition. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. Silverberg is one of twenty-nine writers to have received that distinction. ---- Quotes from Robert Silverberg: "Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting." — Robert Silverberg "Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature and the insecure and the ignorant. We who see through such institutions should be content to live together without legal coercion." — Robert Silverberg "It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies." — Robert Silverberg (Dying Inside) ---- Reviews from readers: "Oh, boy, these stories. The vivid power of them, the nuclear-bomb imagination, the intelligence, the depth. These are stories that fully transcend the genre... which is a problem with SF as a category: how can you even compare “Star Wars” to Silverberg ? And yet, they both fall in the SF bucket, even if Star Wars is to Silverberg what “Fifty Shades of Grey” is to Ian McEwan or Philip Roth. There, I said it, and I’ll say it again: as far as science fiction stories go, Star Wars really sucks. It’s so, so bad. If you like speculative fiction and you haven’t read Silverberg yet, I kindly suggest you drop everything you’re reading and dive into his entire body of work. That’s what I intend to do in the coming months, anyway. I’ve read maybe 5 or 6 books of his so far, ALL of them diamonds. I found this 1975 anthology in a used bookstore in LA, nice and yellowed with that great mystical old-book scent. It includes 10 of the best stories written by Robert Silverberg from 1958 to 1971. Two of them are Nebula award winners, one is a Hugo award winner, and the other ones were nominated for one or the other. 1. Road to Nightfall - In a city of starving people only a certain kind of merchant is still in business... yep, it’s about cannibalism. 2. Warm man - A new neighbour appears, with the magnetic powers of a bizarre confessor. 3. To see the invisible man - A future where the punishment for some crimes is “invisibility”, even though people can still see you: they will see the mark on your forehead and avoid you. A story that was made into an episode of the “Amazing stories” TV show. 4. The Sixth Palace - A variation on the theme of the enigmatic Sphinx. A robot guards a vast treasure - you need to answer his questions correctly if you want access to the treasure. Very amusing. 5. Flies - Aliens save an astronaut and send him back to Earth ... only, something is not right with him. 6. Hawksbill Station - Those accused of sedition , in a right-wing government of 2010, are sent back in time to the Pleistocene, with a time machine that works only one-way. I loved this story especially for the main character, he was so alive and vibrant and sprung out of the pages. 7. Passengers - Invaders whimsically take over men and women, body and soul. 8. Nightwings - My favorite story (and the longest one) of the lot. The epic journey of the Watcher and the characters around him. The core of the story almost sounds like a dream or a hallucination. (Silverberg expanded it into a novel later on). 9. Sundance - A team of scientists exterminate “pests” on a new world without trying to learn their true nature. Echoes of “Downward to Earth”. 10. Good news from the Vatican - The story of the first robot who was elected Pope." - Tom LA ---- Condition: Like new. Pages darkened due to age. Slightly bumped cover edges. Comparable new price: €15.00 (incl. shipping). Your savings on a new purchase: -10% or -1.95 € (incl. Shipping). ---- Weitere interessante Bücher auf: / More interesting books on: t1p.de/arthurian-scifi (Science Fiction) t1p.de/arthurian-en (Englische Bücher / English books) t1p.de/arthurian-fav2 (die beliebtesten Bücher / the most popular books) t1p.de/arthurian-fav (beliebte Bücher / popular books) t1p.de/arthurian (das gesamte Sortiment / the entire range), 1978, Taschenbuch, wie neu, 250g, 3. Auflage, 258, Internationaler Versand, Banküberweisung, PayPal, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Nigel Sustins Books.
UK: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977. A good first UK edition, wear to spine ends, dust to edges, dust-wrapper has chipping, rubbing and small tears.. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB [42537], Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed by Silverberg. Ten stories with introduction and story notes by Silverberg; preface, "Thinking About Silverberg," by Barry N. Malzberg. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-670. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#4557).

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books Express.
Sidg. & J. Hardcover. Good. We ship International with Tracking Number! May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service! j.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books Express [61727479], Portsmouth, NH, U.S.A.
We ship International with Tracking Number! May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service! j.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books Express, NH, Portsmouth, [RE:4].
Hardcover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Sierra Nevada Books [57785937], Reno, NV, U.S.A.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Motor City Books [54239244], Brownstown, MI, U.S.A.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Yankee Clipper Books [54992501], Windsor Locks, CT, U.S.A.