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Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is a prolific American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, a Grand Master of SF.
Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. A voracious reader since childhood, he began submitting stories to science fiction magazines during his early teenage years. He attended Columbia University, receiving a B.A. in English Literature in 1956. During that time he wrote the juvenile novel Revolt on Alpha C, published by Thomas Y. Crowell in 1955 with the cover notice "A gripping story of outer space". and he won his first Hugo in 1956 as the "best new writer". For the next four years, by his own count, he wrote a million words a year, mostly for magazines and Ace Doubles. He used his own name as well as a range of pseudonyms during this era, and often worked in collaboration with Randall Garrett. (The Silverberg/Garrett collaborations also used a variety of pseudonyms, the best-known being Robert Randall.) From 1956 to 1959, Silverberg routinely averaged 5 published stories a month, and had over 80 stories published in 1958 alone. In 1959 the market for science fiction collapsed, and Silverberg turned his ability to write copiously to other fields, from carefully researched historical nonfiction to softcore pornography.
In the mid-1960s, science fiction writers were becoming more literarily ambitious. Frederik Pohl, then editing three science fiction magazines, offered Silverberg carte blanche in writing for them. Thus inspired, Silverberg returned to the field that gave him his start, paying far more attention to depth of character development and social background than he had in the past and mixing in elements of the modernist literature he had studied at Columbia.
The novels he wrote in this period are considered far superior to his earlier work. Perhaps the first book to indicate the new Silverberg was To Open the Sky, a fixup of stories published by Pohl in Galaxy Magazine, in which a new religion helps people reach the stars. That was followed by Downward to the Earth, a story containing echoes of material from Joseph Conrad's work, in which the human former administrator of an alien world returns after the planet's inhabitants have been set free. Other acclaimed works of that time include To Live Again, in which the memories and personalities of the deceased can be transferred to other people; The World Inside, a look at an overpopulated future; and Dying Inside, a tale of a telepath losing his powers.
In 1969 Nightwings was awarded the Hugo for best novella. Silverberg won a Nebula award in 1970 for the short story Passengers, two the following year for his novel A Time of Changes and the short story "Good News from the Vatican", and yet another in 1975 for his novella "Born with the Dead".
After suffering through the stresses of a thyroid malfunction and a major house fire, Silverberg moved from his native New York to the West Coast in 1972, and announced his retirement from writing in 1975. In 1980 he returned, however, with Lord Valentine's Castle, a panoramic adventure set on an alien planet, which has become the basis of the Majipoor series—a cycle of stories and novels set on the vast planet Majipoor, a world much larger than Earth and inhabited by no fewer than seven different species of settlers.
Silverberg received a Nebula award in 1986 for the novella Sailing to Byzantium, which takes its name from the poem by William Butler Yeats; a Hugo in 1987 for the novella Gilgamesh in the Outback, set in the Heroes in Hell universe of Bangsian Fantasy; a Hugo in 1990 for Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Silverberg in 1999, its fourth class of two deceased and two living writers, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 21st SFWA Grand Master in 2005.
Silverberg has been married twice. He and Barbara Brown married in 1956, separated in 1976, and divorced a decade later. Silverberg and science fiction writer Karen Haber married in 1987. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
About author and audiobooks:
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Majipoor: Lord Valentine series
Robert Silverberg - Lord Valentine's Castle (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Robert Silverberg - Majipoor Chronicles (read by J. Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle De Cuir, Arte Johnson, Don Leslie, Stefan Rudnicki, Scott Peterson and Mirron E. Willis)
Robert Silverberg - Valentine Pontifex (read by J. Paul Boehmer, Hillary Huber, Don Leslie & Stefan Rudnicki)
Robert Silverberg - The Mountains Of Majipoor (read by J. P. Linton)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/cb0918aa61521b9a6cef565f98df179e/Lord_Valentines_Castle.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/273f143612869365753cc06a79b951c0/Majipoor_Chronicles.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9d620572a2856060378e81ca707fbd97/Valentine_Pontifex.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b4601eb9bc4df9b8596c490c6a08b8f8/The_Mountains_Of_Majipoor.rar.html |
Novels
Robert Silverberg - Starman's Quest (read by Dawn Larsen)
Robert Silverberg - Downward To The Earth (read by Bronson Pinchot)
Robert Silverberg - A Time Of Changes (read by Tom Parker))
Robert Silverberg - The Book Of Skulls (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Robert Silverberg - The Face Of The Waters (read by James DeLotel)
Robert Silverberg - Hot Sky At Midnight (read by J. P. Linton)
Robert Silverberg - The Longest Way Home (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Robert Silverberg - Up The Line (read by Paul Boehmer)
Robert Silverberg - Tower Of Glass (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Robert Silverberg - The World Inside (read by Paul Boehmer)
Robert Silverberg - Dying Inside (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Robert Silverberg - The Stochastic Man (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Robert Silverberg - Shadrach In The Furnace (read by Paul Boehmer)
Robert Silverberg - Gilgamesh The King (read by William Coon)
Robert Silverberg - The Ugly Little Boy (read by Richard Davidson)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/3f9fc3a34cf03998e4681ec99fd6d0e3/Starmans_Quest.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f68d2af68b2693bdaae16ef593e84b57/Downward_To_The_Earth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8071460dbf9675dfe427593f7786b806/A_Time_Of_Changes.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f010861666ec2b16689c65f358d3f0cc/The_Book_Of_Skulls.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b45350059e869111a43fb180eafe030f/The_Face_Of_The_Waters.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/250adca679736eab4ceb6bd15be8ffcd/Hot_Sky_At_Midnight.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e33ecf7000183d74db242f1123b6019a/The_Longest_Way_Home.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/48ec098faab7d2f5b530da7a0a1b0f4b/Up_The_Line.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e997d9995c5cc11b992fd729a384a345/Tower_Of_Glass.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9f1b9e358ba558694f103c29d0aab960/The_World_Inside.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3265be5ab2c00e8768ddbf87c505024e/Dying_Inside.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/28bfafc05c00c99a7381073e206770e5/The_Stochastic_Man.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c5ca178b11cd3aa0412279b88a6bf618/Shadrach_In_The_Furnace.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e2a4ac9cda48fa0a5b2de13f4ed3fbfd/Gilgamesh_The_King.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/beeb860092d61f84454f08d27a82aa0f/The_Ugly_Little_Boy.rar.html |
Short Stories Collections
Robert Silverberg - The Secret Sharer And Other Stories (read by Robertson Dean)
The Secret Sharer
We Are for the Dark
Good News from the Vatican
Robert Silverberg - Phases Of The Moon (read by Stephen Carpenter)
The 1950s: Introduction
Road to Nightfall
The Macauley Circuit
Sunrise on Mercury
Warm Man
The 1960s: Introduction
To See the Invisible Man
Flies
Passengers
Nightwings
Sundance
The 1970s: Introduction
Good News from the Vatican
Capricorn Games
Born With the Dead
Schwartz Between the Galaxies
The 1980s: Introduction
The Far Side of the Bell-Shaped Curve
The Pope of the Chimps
Needle in a Timestack
Sailing to Byzantium
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another
The 1990s: Introduction
Hunters in the Forest
Death Do Us Part
The 2000s: Introduction
Beauty in the Night
The Millennium Express
With Caesar in the Underworld
Robert Silverberg - Tales Of Majipoor (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
The End of the Line
The Book of Changes
The Tomb of the Pontifex Dvorn
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Dark Times at the Midnight Market
The Way They Wove the Spells in Sippulgar
The Seventh Shrine
Robert Silverberg - Other Short Stories (read by Various narrators)
The Great Kladnar Race
The Hunted Heroes
The Judas Valley
The Macauley Circuit
Father Image
Postmark Ganymede
Reality Unlimited
The Happy Unfortunate
World of a Thousand Colors
Hawksbill Station
Nightwings
Passengers
Ishmael In Love
The Song the Zombie Sang
Now + n, Now - n
What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper
When We Went to See the End of the World
Getting Across
Born With the Dead
Schwartz Between the Galaxies
Our Lady of the Sauropods
Amanda and the Alien
Basileus
Sailing to Byzantium
The Secret Sharer
House of Bones
Letters from Atlantis
Hunters in the Forest
A Long Night’s Vigil at the Temple
Looking for the Fountain
Death Do Us Part
Beauty in the Night
The Seventh Shrine
A Hero of the Empire
With Caesar in the Underworld
The Book of Changes
Against the Current
The Emperor and the Maula
The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale
Defenders of the Frontier
Smithers and the Ghosts of the Thar
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/6d6d9149bc735a71cf678fb0488433f4/The_Secret_Sharer_And_Other_Stories.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/db51159970386e1bdb53c7a9adb3b83f/Phases_Of_The_Moon.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d4254afd8641749753f1ab4a72d42b7c/Tales_Of_Majipoor.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a1b92c755da6c8fab1ce5d441f297720/Other_Short_Stories.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/caac28cf9f7f2aeabea77c87da7b64c4/Other_Short_Stories.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/81f5b9df4293b512f2f9ddb429bcce0d/Other_Short_Stories.part3.rar.html |
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