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  • Bibliography:
    188 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1957
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Robert Silverberg was born in New York in 1965. He sold his first novel while still a student at Columbia University, and has been a full-time writer since graduation. He has published more than fifty novels as well as serious works of history and archeology, and has been nominated for more awards for his fiction than any other science fiction writer, alive or dead. He and his wife now live in San Francisco.

Full Series List in Order

The Majipoor Cycle

1 - Lord Valentine's Castle (1979)
2 - Valentine Pontifice (Oct-1983)
3 - Valentine Pontifex (Jan-1983)

The New Springtime

1 - At Winter's End (Apr-1989)
2 - The Queen of Springtime (Mar-1991)
3 - The New Springtime (Apr-1990)

Prestimion Trilogy

1 - Sorcerers of Majipoor (Aug-1997)
2 - Lord Prestimion (Aug-1999)
3 - The King of Dreams (Jun-2001)

Time Gate

2 - Dangerous Interfaces (Sep-1990)

Book List in Order: 188 titles

  • Warm Man

    in A Whisper of Blood

    ROBERT SILVERBERG uncovers the dark side of sunny suburbia when a stranger extracts the neuroses of an unsuspecting town.... SUZY McKEE CHARNAS lures a reluctant vampire to play a game with death.... JONATHAN CARROLL takes a dream vacation -- a...

  • Starman's Quest

    • / Science Fiction
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    The Lexman Spacedrive gave man the stars -- but at a fantastic price. Interstellar exploration, colonization, and trade became things of reality. The benefits to Earth were enormous. But because of the Fitzgerald Contraction, a man who shipped out to...

  • Flies

    in Dangerous Visions #1

  • The Masks of Time

    • / Science Fiction
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    A Nebula-nominated classic by a Grandmaster of Science Fiction, Robert Silverberg, The Masks of Time tells the story of Vornan-19...a naked man who suddenly appears on the Spanish Stairs. *** Vornon-19 claims to have come from the far future and has ...

  • Across a Billion Years

    • / Science Fiction
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    A team of space archaeologists makes an astonishing discovery about an ancient alien race in this science fiction tale from “a master of his craft” (Los Angeles Times).
    Graduate student Tom Rice is thrilled to embark on his f...

  • Nightwings

    • / Science Fiction
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    INTO THE DARKNESS, INTO THE LIGHT Alien invaders have conquered Earth, sending her peoples to the brink of despair. The old Watcher, who spent his life scanning the heavens for galactic enemies, now finds his mission finished and his friends torn ...

  • Up the Line

    “A ribald, Byzantine tale of time-tourism” from the multiple Nebula and Hugo Award"winning author (Tor.com).   It’s 2059, and former law clerk Jud Elliott finds himself at loose ends -- until a chance meeting with a Time Courier gives hi...

  • Tower of Glass

    Simeon Krug has a vision--and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space. The colossal tower he's constructing for this purpose soars above the Arctic tundr...

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  • Downward to the Earth

    A lone man must make a journey across a once-colonized alien planet abandoned by mankind when it was discovered that the species there were actually sentient.

    Gundersen returns to Holman's World seeking atonement for his harsh years as colonial...

  • Great Short Novels Of Science Fiction

    • / General Fiction
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  • The World Inside

    Welcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2381 with a world population of over seventy-five bi...

  • A Time of Changes

    • / Science Fiction
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    With a new introduction by author Robert Silverberg, and the first-ever map of Borthan, this Nebula Award-winning classic sci-fi novel A Time of Changes, out of print since 1992, will delight fans of dystopian fiction In the far future, Earth is a w...

  • Invaders from Space

  • Recalled to Life

    James Harker, a former New York governor and washed up politician, is enlisted by a medical lab to guide them through the legal and ethical pitfalls of unveiling their new technique to the world: to reanimate the recently dead! Facing opposition from...

  • The Book of Skulls

    Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, college roommates, go on a spring break trip to Arizona: Eli, the scholar, who found and translated the book; Timothy, scion of an American dynasty, born and...

  • Dying Inside

    David Selig was born with an awesome power -- the ability to look deep into the human heart, to probe the darkest truths hidden in the secret recesses of the soul. With reckless abandon, he used his talent in the pursuit of pleasure. Then, one day, h...

  • Unfamiliar Territory

    • / General Fiction
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    This is the first edition of this story collection, published by Scribners. Stories included: Caught in the Organ Draft (1972); {Now + n, Now - n} (1972); Some Notes on the Pre-Dynastic Epoch (1973); In the Group (1973); Caliban (1971); Many Mansions...

  • Earth's Other Shadow

    Signet, 1973. Mass market paperback, one of several printings. Collects nine stories: "Something Wild Is Loose" (1971); "To See the Invisible Man" (1963); "Ishmael in Love" (1970); "How It Was When the Past Went Away" (1969); "To the Dark Star" (1968...



  • An Exaltation of Stars

  • The Mirror of Infinity

  • Mind to Mind

    Included: "The Mindworm," by C.M. Kornbluth; "Psyclops," by Brian W. Aldiss; "Novice," by James H. Schmitz; "Liar ," by Isaac Asimov; "Something Wild Is Loose," by Robert Silverberg; "Riya's Foundling," by Algis Budrys; "Through Other Eyes," by R.A. ...

  • Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories

  • Born With the Dead

    • / Science Fiction
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  • Epoch

    • / Science Fiction
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    This book was published in 1975. This is one of the largest volumes of all-new science fiction ever published. Epoch presents state of the art science fiction in the 1970s. It has become a mature form, retaining the exhilaration, the soaring sense...

  • Alpha 6

  • Shores of Tomorrow

  • Next Stop, the Stars

    NEXT STOP THE STARS is a collection of Robert Silverberg's early short fiction. It includes: Slaves of the Star-Giants, a strong, colorful action-adventure tale; Hopper, a time-paradox story; and The Songs of Summer, Blaze of Glory, and Warm Man, thr...

  • Son of Man

    The classic science fiction novel, now back in print Clay is a man from the 20th Century who is somehow caught up in a time-flux and transported into a distant future. The earth and the life on it have changed beyond recognition. Even the human race ...



  • Galactic Dreamers

  • Alpha 8

  • Hawksbill Station

    A “dark, restrained, and powerful” mirror of current politics from the Science Fiction Grand Master (Science Fiction Ruminations).   In the barren landscape of the late Cambrian period, a penal colony sits high above the ocean on the east c...

  • Alpha 9

  • Lord Valentine's Castle

    • / Science Fiction
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    The Majipoor Cycle - 1

    THE SEARCH FOR HIS LOST PAST LEADS TO A BATTLE FOR HIS FUTURE In one of the best-loved and bestselling science fantasy classics of all time, Robert Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle begins as young Prince Valentine travels the planet Majipoor with a gro...

  • Car Sinister

  • Best New Dimension

  • Ringing the Changes

    in Alchemy & Academe

    ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...

  • Best Rob Slverberg

    The Best of Robert Silverberg: Stories of Six Decades is a landmark volume that offers exactly what its title promises: the finest short work of one of the finest writers ever to grace the field of science fiction. Updated and expanded from 2004's Ph...

  • New Dimensions 10



  • A Robert Silverberg Omnibus

    Three novels tell of the search for a self-exiled genius who is Earth's last hope, three people who witness Earth's defeat by alien invaders, and an Earthman's experience with a rebirth ceremony on a planet ruled by elphantlike creatures...

  • Second Trip

    Science fiction novel set in the year 2011 (about 40 year when book was written). Because capital punishment has been deemed too harsh, violent criminals are subjected to coercive therapy that effectively erases their memories and replaces them with ...

  • The Time Hoppers

    In order to prevent the present from never happening, CrimSec Quellen must stop a growing number of time travelers from fleeing the overcrowded world of 2490, creating a more tranquil existence in the past, and perhaps changing the course of history...

  • The Seed of Earth

  • The Shrouded Planet

  • The Dawning Light

  • World's Fair, 1992

  • Valentine Pontifex

    The Majipoor Cycle - 3

    Plagued by nightmares of Majipoor besieged by blizzards and earthquakes, Lord Valentine believes these omens signal an encroaching war between his people and the Shapeshifters who once ruled the planet. For centuries they have conspired to regain the...

  • Majipoor Chronicles 3

  • The Man in the Maze

    A diplomat who successfully negotiated with intelligent aliens finds his loyalty to the human race tested in this novel by a Nebula Award"winning author.  Richard Muller was an honorable diplomat who braved unimaginable dangers to make contac...



  • Stepsons of Terra

  • Thorns

    Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people''s pain. He feeds off it and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on Minner Burris, a space traveler whose...

  • Valentine Pontifice

    The Majipoor Cycle - 2

    WHEN ALL SEEMS WELL EXPECT THE WORST TO HAPPEN The extraordinary story continues in this magnificent volume of the bestselling Majipoor Chronicles, begun in Lord Valentine's Castle. Now dark dreams disturb Lord Valentine's sleep a forewarning of t...

  • To Open the Sky

    • / Science Fiction
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    Eternal life. Isn't that what every religion offers in some way? Existence beyond just this? For Noel Vorst, the quest for eternal life is something much more tangible, driven by science, reaching out to the physical stars in place of a metaphorical ...

  • World of a Thousand Colors

    • / Science Fiction
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  • The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party

    You're invited to join Robert Silverberg, bestselling, author of VALENTINE PONTIFEX on a fabulous voyage into the imagination. Twice winner of the Hugo Award and four times winner of the Nebula, Silverberg is an unparalleled master of short fiction. ...

  • Lord of Darkness

    Captive to the slave-trading colonists of Angola, young British seaman Andrew Battell longs for his home in the England of Elizabeth I, but increasingly finds himself enthralled by the occult arts of the Lord of Darkness...

  • The Nebula Awards No. 18

  • Shadrach in the Furnace

    • / Science Fiction
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    When the stimulation of telemetric sensors no longer is enough to satisfy him, the great Khan, ruler of Earth, decides that he requires the strong, healthy, virile body of Shadrach Mordecai, a very special man, in a new edition of the classic science...

  • The Time Travellers

  • Tom O Bedlam

    "I know more than Apollo

    Fort oft when he lies sleeping

    I behold the starts at mortal wars

    And the wounded wekin weeping."

    --Tom O' Bedlam's song

    Tom, like the medieval Tom O'Bedlam, can't decipher the meaning of the imag...

  • Tom O'Bedlam

    A tortured man’s visions hold the key to mankind’s future in Robert Silverberg’s post-apocalyptic masterpiece   Life in the blasted wasteland of 2103 California is nasty, brutish, and short. If the savage “scratchers” don’t kill you,...

  • Gilgamesh the King

    A thrilling retelling of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh from the Hugo and Nebula Award–Winning author of Lord Valentine’s Castle.
     Gilgamesh’s appetite for wine, women, and warfare is insatiable. As the King of Uruk...

  • Needle in a Timestack

    A collection of twenty classic stories from the Science Fiction Grand Master who “seems capable of amazements beyond those of mere mortals” (The Washington Post Book World).  Needle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best -- in...

  • The Silent Invaders

  • After the Flames

  • Sailing to Byzantium

    • / Science Fiction
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    FIRST EDITION

    The world's most distinguished author of the literature of the fantastic presents his most extraordinary stories of worlds lost and dreams fulfilled...

    In his illustrious forty-five year career as a n...

  • Beyond the Safe Zone

  • Conquerors from the Darkness

    A thousand years in the future, the earth has been conquered by an alien race and covered by a single sea. Dovirr Stargan, who is disgusted with the servility of his life on the floating city of Vythain, longs to become one of the Sea-Lords, who roam...

  • Gilgamesh in the Outback

    in Rebels in Hell

    All of Hell is in revolt as Gilgamesh, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and the other damned, turn rebel, in this collection of stories by such science fiction masters as Robert Silverberg, Janet Morris, C.J. Cherryh, David Drake, Martin Caidin, a...

  • Star of Gypsies

    The classic science fiction novel, now back in print Clay is a man from the 20th Century who is somehow caught up in a time-flux and transported into a distant future. The earth and the life on it have changed beyond recognition. Even the human race ...

  • To Live Again

  • Invaders from Earth

    How do you justify genocide? Kennedy had a job to do. It was as simple as that. He was paid to do a job, and he did it. His job was to convince the Earth's population that a hapless race of sapient creatures living peacefully on a distant planet must...

  • Stochastic Man

    In the twentieth century's final months, Lew Nichols, administrative assistant to New York City's mayor and expert in stochastic prediction, comes under the influence of Martin Carvajal and develops full powers of seeing the ineluctable future...

  • Great Science Fiction Of 20th Century

  • Project Pendulum

  • The Secret Sharer

    • / Science Fiction
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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 o...

  • Time of the Great Freeze

    During the receding Fifth Ice Age seven men expelled from underground New York in 2650 and one deserter from that isolated colony attempt to travel to London, where contact has been made with other people...

  • Collision Course

    After four centuries of space travel Man was supreme. human civilization had spread to hundreds of planets, and never, *never* had the colonists found a trace of another intelligent species. Humanity was alone, with the entire galaxy at their command...

  • Earthmen and Strangers

    • / Science Fiction
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  • Revolt on Alpha C

  • At Winter's End

    The New Springtime - 1

    From the Five-Time Nebula Award-Winner""Seven thousand centuries ago, falling death stars unleashed fiery apocalyptic destruction on Earth and inaugurated the Long Winter. One small band of People took refuge in an underground cocoon where they and t...

  • Mutant Season

    Starting in the 1400s, children with gold-colored eyes and strange abilities - telepathy, telekinesis, and the like - began to be born into the world. For centuries, these "mutants" kept themselves hidden for fear of persecution, but in the latter pa...

  • Enter A Soldier. Later: Enter Another

    in Time Gate

    In the mid 21st Century the United States is a sleeping giant, lost in dreams of faded glory. But in one field we still reign supreme: entertainment, which in this future means computer simulations. That's why it is in America that the final computer...

  • Universe 1

    An extraordinary collection of original fiction by science fiction’s most talented writers.

    Until Terry Carr’s untimely death, his Universe series was acknowledged by critics and readers alike as the foremost anthology of original science...

  • To the Land of the Living

    IS THERE LIFE AFTER LIFE AFTER DEATH? Only one road leads to the Afterworld, the path dreaded by mortals great and small, the way called death. There, in that universe of endless and remorseless life, a land of trickery and sorcery, places come an...

  • The New Springtime

    The New Springtime - 3

    The death-stars had come, and they had kept on coming for hundreds of thousands of years, falling upon the Earth, swept upon it by a vagrant star that had passed through the outer reaches of the solar system. They brought with them a time of unending...

  • Dangerous Interfaces

    Time Gate - 2

    Collects stories by Silverberg, Anne McCaffrey, Christopher Stasheff, and Robert Sheckley, dealing with a futuristic society in which humans have computer-generated slaves with the personalities of long-dead historical figures...

  • The Queen of Springtime

    The New Springtime - 2

    From the Five-Time Nebula Award-Winner The death stars that brought the apocalyptic destruction on Earth seven hundred thousand years before have stopped falling, and Earth has begun to renew itself. The Long Winter that held the human tribes in the...

  • The Face of the Waters

    On the waterworld planet of Hydros, the human colonists are exiled by the amphibious natives from the few habitable land masses and set off in a desperate search for refuge in the shadowy mystical land of the Face of the Waters...

  • Thebes of the Hundred Gates

    • / Science Fiction
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    Edward Davis, a rookie of the Time Service, has already made several successful jumps to the past. Now he is given his most important mission.Two members of the Service have disappeared in ancient Egypt and Edward Davis’s assignment is to locate an...

  • Universe 2

    • / Science Fiction
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  • Letters from Atlantis

    On a mission to observe the fabled city of Atlantis through the mind of its royal heir, Ram, twenty-first-century time traveler Roy Colton soon becomes worried by Ram's dark dreams of the island's future destruction. Reprint....

  • The Horror Hall of Fame

  • Kingdoms of the Wall

    • / Science Fiction
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    Chosen to lead the forty men and women from the village of Jespodar in their annual quest to scale the Wall, a monstrous assemblage of cliffs, Poilar Crookleg is finally able to realize his lifelong dream...

  • Beyond the Gates of World's

  • The Gate of Worlds

    An Alternate History adventure...From Turkish dominated Europe, across the high seas to the land of opportunity--the Aztec Empire-- Dan Beauchamp is a young Englishman whose heart longs for fortune and adventure. But industrial Mexico is a long way f...

  • Hot Sky at Midnight

    • / Science Fiction
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    Humankind's soul is at stake in a futuristic tale of an earth bordering on ecological collapse, from which the only escapes are genetic adaptation or emigration to satellite cities in the sky. By the author of Kingdoms of the Wall. ...

  • Universe 3

    • / Science Fiction
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    A collection of fifteen stories from the brightest voices in contemporary science fiction features the writing of Brian W. Aldiss, E. Michael Blake, Terry Boren, David Ira Cleary, Alex Jeffers, Jamil Nasir, and others. Original....

  • The Mountains of Majipoor

    Facing blizzards, ice storms, and strange beasts on a mission to the frozen tundra, Prince Harpirias attempts to rescue a party of scientists who have been kidnapped by an uncivilized race from beyond Majipoor. Reprint....

  • Espinas

  • Realm of Prester John

    In this modern account of the genesis of a great medieval myth, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg’s explores the mysterious origins of Prester John, the astonishing Christian potentate of the East.

    Prester John was a lege...

  • Starborne

    Fifty men and women are chosen as the crew of the Wotan, in what is certain to be the greatest voyage of exploration in human history. Their mission is to travel to the  furthest reaches of the galaxy in search of inhabitable worlds. The crew is sh...

  • Reflections and Refractions: Thoughts on Science-Fiction, Sc

  • Sorcerers of Majipoor

    Prestimion Trilogy - 1

    A thousand years before Lord Valentine, the destiny of kings is hostage to sorcery and deceit. On the planet Majipoor, it is a time of great change. The aged Pontifex Prankipin, who brought sorcery (and prosperity) to the Fifty Cities of Castle Mount...

  • Fantasy Hall of Fame

    The authorative companion and follow-up to the acclaimed Science Fiction Hall of Fame  acknowledges the importance of fantasy to modern literature, and enshrine the 30 favorite short stories of all time.

    Chosen by popular ballot among the 1000 pro...

  • Legends 1

    The Great Anthology of Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy STEPHEN KING tells a tale of Roland, the Gunslinger, in the world of The Dark Tower, in "The Little Sisters of Eluria." ROBERT SILVERBERG returns to Majipoor and to Lord Valen...

  • Legends 3

    The Great Anthology of Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy ROBERT JORDAN relates crucial events in the years leading up to The Wheel of Time in "New Spring." URSULA K. LE GUIN adds a sequel to her famous books of Earthsea, portraying ...

  • Far Horizons

    The universe of the mind is a limitless expanse of wonders, filled with worlds and secrets that cannot be fully explored within the pages of a single novel. Here, science fiction's most beloved and highly honored writers revisit their best-known worl...

  • The Alien Years

    It Was The Worst of Times...

    Fifteen feet tall, the Entities land in cities across Earth. Ignoring humankind, they wall themselves in impenetrable enclaves, enslaving a few willing collaborators with their telepathic ...

  • Lord Prestimion

    Prestimion Trilogy - 2

    Prestimion should be jubilant. As the new Coronal Lord of Majipoor, the Starburst Crown is his at lost. But the victorious lord is burdened with a great secret: he gained the throne through a bloody civil war -- a war no one remembers! With the ai...

  • New Dimensions

  • The Ultimate Dinosaur

    Though they are an extinct species, dinosaurs still live and fascinate the minds of many a scientist and researcher world-over. Dinosaurs are members of a larger group of reptiles called the Archosauria. The essays in this book seek to provide reader...

  • Shadow on the Stars

    A THRILLING ADVENTURE that ranges across time and space, pitting one man against a invading alien horde that threatens a colony world, and against a hidden conspiracy to conquer Earth. Blair Ewing must battle Klondi hordes, Sirian plotters, the force...

  • The Androids Are Coming

  • Earth Is the Strangest Planet

  • The Ends of Time

  • The King of Dreams

    Prestimion Trilogy - 3

    In the seventh and final volume in The Majipoor Cycle, Coronal Lord Prestimion has finally restored peace to Majipoor after years of unrest, but as he prepares for his ascension to the throne of Pontifex, the kingdom comes under attack by the schemin...

  • Master of Life and Death

    By the 23rd century Earth's population had reached seven billion. Mankind was in danger of perishing for lack of elbow room--unless prompt measures were taken. Roy Walton had the power to enforce those measures. But though his job was in the service...

  • Legends

    Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg gathered eleven of the finest writers in Fantasy to contribute to this collection of short novels. Each of the writers was asked to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series: from St...

  • Cronos

    Letters to Atlantis: Time travel has allowed Roys consciousness to enter the mind of the heir to Atlantiss throne, and what he found disturbed him. How could such an advanced city exist at this time? The rest of the world was, as Roys partner,...

  • In Another Country

  • Hawksbill Times Two

  • The Longest Way Home

    Caught in the midst of a rebellion while visiting a friend thousands of miles from home, Joseph, the young heir to the great House Keilloran, finds himself fighting for survival in enemy territory, through which he must travel while facing terrible d...

  • Roma Eterna

    No power on Earth can resist the might of Imperial Rome, so it has been and so it ever shall be. Through brute force, terror, and sheer indomitable will, her armies have enslaved a world. From the reign of Maximilianus the Great in A.U.C. 1203 onward...

  • Legends II : Dragon, Sword, and King

    Fantasy fans, rejoice! Seven years after writer and editor Robert Silverberg made publishing history with Legends, his acclaimed anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy fiction, the long-awaited second volume is ...

  • Legends II : Shadows, Gods, and Demons

    Fantasy fans, rejoice! Seven years after writer and editor Robert Silverberg made publishing history with Legends, his acclaimed anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy fiction, the long-awaited second volume is ...

  • Phases of the Moon

    Now ibooks proudly presents a collection of Silverberg's best short fiction, as selected by the author. The 1950s: The Road to Nightfall, The Macauley Circuit, Sunrise on Mercury, Warm Man. The 1960s: To See the Invisible Man, Flies, Passengers, Nigh...

  • Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One

    The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929-1964.

    This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of A...

  • Gilgamesh

  • Beyond Singularity

    Featuring stellar contributions from some of today's most masterful practitioners of speculative fiction, Beyond Singularity presents fourteen visions of a tomorrow where rapid technological and genetic breakthroughs have rendered humanity obsolete....

  • Seventh Shrine

    • / Graphic Novel
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  • To the Dark Star

    This story, "To See the Invisible Man," written in June of 1962, marks the beginning of my real career as a science-fiction writer, I think. The 1953-58 stories collected in To Be Continued, the first of this series of volumes, are respectable profes...

  • The 13th Immortal

    Unable to remember his past, Dale Kesley believes that the answer to his life's riddle is in Antarctica - the now-forbidden contient - and, with a price on his head, searches for the one person who can help him find the truth. Original....

  • Beyond Control

    Included: "Child's Play," by William Tenn; "Autofac," by Philip K. Dick; "Adam and No Eve," by Alfred Bester; "City of Yesterday," by Terry Carr; "The Iron Chancellor," by Robert Silverberg; "The Box," by James Blish; and "The Dead Past," by Isaac As...

  • Infinite Jests

    Included: "Venus and the Seven Sexes," by William Tenn; "Babel II," by Damon Knight; "Useful Phrases for the Tourist," by Joanna Russ; "Conversational Mode," by Grahame Leman; "Heresies of the Huge God," by Brian W. Aldiss; "(Now+n), (Now-n)," by Rob...

  • Men and Machines

    Included: "Counter Foil," by George O. Smith; "A Bad Day for Sales," by Fritz Leiber; "Without a Thought," by Fred Saberhagan; "Solar Plexus," by James Blish; "The Macauley Circuit," by Robert Silverberg; "But Who Can Replace a Man?," by Brian W. Ald...

  • Mutants

    Included: "Tomorrow's Children," by Poul Anderson and F.N. Waldrop; "It's a Good Life," by Jerome Bixby" The Mute Question" by Forrest J Ackerman; "Let the Ants Try" by Frederik Pohl; "The Conqueror" by Mark Clifton; "Liquid Life" by Ralph Milne Farl...

  • Strange Gifts

    Included: "The Golden Man," by Philip K. Dick; "Danger -- Human!" by Gordon R. Dickson; "All the People," by R.A. Lafferty; "Oddy and Id," by Alfred Bester; "The Man with English," by Horace L. Gold; "To Be Continued," by Robert Silverberg; "Humpty D...

  • Other Spaces, Other Times

    Capturing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of science fiction, this unique autobiography by Robert Silverberg shows how famous stories in this genre were conceived and written. Chronicling his ...

  • Trips

    The stories here, all of them written between March of 1972 and November of 1973, mark a critical turning point in my career. Those who know the three earlier volumes have traced my evolution from a capable journeyman, very young and as much concerne...

  • Trips In Time

    Included in this volume are "An Infinite Summer," by Christopher Priest; "The King's Wishes," by Robert Sheckley; "Manna," by Peter Phillips; "The Long Remembering," by Poul Anderson; "Try and Change the Past," by Fritz Leiber; "Divine Madness, by Ro...

  • The Happy Unfortunate

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • The Hunted Heroes

  • The Palace at Midnight: 1980-82

    Somehow, for all my outward pretence of cold-eyed professionalism, all my insistence that writing is simply a job like any other, I've discovered to my surprise and chagrin that there's more than that going on around here, that I write as much out of...

  • Planet of Death

    Earthman Roy Crawford is framed for murder on the planet Velliran. He has two choices. He must escape from the planet within three days or go to prison for life.But the only spaceship leaving the planet within three days belongs to the Exploration Co...

  • Postmark Ganymede

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Three Survived

    Tom Rand, a practical engineer, and two other men are the only survivors of a spaceship explosion. Marooned on a hostile planet, they are being held captive by a group of “aliens.” Their one slim chance of survival is to reach a rescue beacon pla...

  • Three Survived // Planet Of Death

    THREE SURVIVED: Tom Rand, a practical engineer, and two other men are the only survivors of a spaceship explosion. Marooned on a hostile planet, they are being held captive by a group of "aliens." Their one slim chance of survival is to reach a rescu...

  • In the Beginning

    The SF Grandmaster's follow up to the career retrospective Phases of the Moon is a glance back to the earliest days of his career. Included with pulp stories not reprinted in decades will be more of the commentary that made Phases so much more than j...

  • The Last Song of Orpheus

    In the course of his extraordinary -- and prolific -- career, Robert Silverberg has made an enormous contribution to imaginative literature. In The Last Song of Orpheus, his longest story in more than a decade, Silverberg has given us one of his most...

  • Science Fiction Grand Master, Robert Silverberg

    Hugo and Nebula Award Winning and Nominated Short Fiction from Science Fiction Grand Master, Robert Silverberg.  In an Earth far into the future, the human race has reverted to a rigid Guild system where every citizen is classified according to ...

  • Times Three

    In Times Three, Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg presents a trio of ingenious variations on one of science fiction's most durable themes: time travel. These three novels, all of them prime Silverberg, approach that subject from a dizzyi...

  • Dangerous Dimensions

    In an Earth far into the future, the human race has reverted to a rigid Guild system where every citizen is classified according to function and mandated to strictly abide by the Guild's set of rules. Those who are Guildless are not considered men; t...

  • Multiples

    "By the time this present group of stories was written I had passed through the cultural turbulence that engulfed nearly everyone s life in the wild, stormy period we know as 'the Sixties,' which for me had actually lasted from 1968 to 1974 or 1975. ...

  • Hunt the Space-witch!

    Space opera at its best -- wild and fast and furious, as only Robert Silverberg could write it   As a young man, Robert Silverberg was a science fiction prodigy, turning out top-flight stories in the blink of an eye. Though written quickly, Silv...

  • The Planet Killers

    This trio of early short novels by Grand Master Robert Silverberg is straight-up pulp science fiction at its finest   As a young man, Robert Silverberg was a science fiction prodigy, turning out top-flight stories in the blink of an eye. Though ...

  • Around the Continuum

    Gilgamesh in the Outback. In this Hugo Award winning novella, Ancient Sumerian king, Gilgamesh, found himself in a Hell not so very different from the kingdom in which he came. Faced with nothing much to do for eternity, he continues as a warrior in ...

  • The Chalice of Death

    Three novels of adventure among the stars from the Science Fiction Grand Master and author of Across a Billion Years. In The Chalice of Death, Hallam Navarre is tasked by his alien master to seek out a fabled weapon on the homeworld of a once-mi...

  • To Be Continued

    First in a projected eight volumes collecting all of the short stories and novellas SF Grandmaster Silverberg wants to take their place on the permanent shelf. Each volume will be roughly 150,000-200,000 words, with classics and lesser known gems ali...

  • Blood on the Mink

    Somewhere in Philadelphia, a master engraver is turning out brilliant forgeries of U.S. currency plates for an organized crime gang - and the government wants to put a stop to it. But how can they get close enough to bring down the criminal enterpris...

  • Silverberg's Starborne

    “Silverberg seems capable of amazements beyond those of of mere mortals.” -- The Washington Post Book World.Is utopia a death sentence for mankind?Does living in a perfect world destroy all that makes us human?Fifty men and women, living prefect ...

  • Something Wild is Loose

    The world that these stories sprang from was the troubled, bewildering, dangerous, and very exciting world of those weird years when the barriers were down and the future was rushing into the present with the force of a river unleashed. But of course...

  • Mammoth Books presents When We Went to See the End of the World

    A parody of the end-of-the-world theme in which time travel allows Nick, Jane and their friends to witness the final apocalypse. As a group of friends gather for Mike and Ruby's party, each couple boasts about their recent trip to the end of the worl...

  • We Are for the Dark

    The stories collected here, written between August of 1987 and May of 1990, demonstrate that I still believe in the classical unities. Of course, what seems to us a unity now might not have appeared that way when H.G. Wells was writing his wonderful ...

  • The Best of Robert Silverberg

    The Best of Robert Silverberg: Stories of Six Decades is a landmark volume that offers exactly what its title promises: the finest short work of one of the finest writers ever to grace the field of science fiction. Updated and expanded from 2004's Ph...

  • The Palace at Midnight

    Somehow, for all my outward pretense of cold-eyed professionalism, all my insistence that writing is simply a job like any other, I've discovered to my surprise and chagrin that there's more than that going on around here, that I write as much out of...

  • Tales of Majipoor

    Majipoor is a planet unlike any other, with countless untold stories. Now, available for the first time in one volume, science fiction grand master Robert Silverberg presents seven tales that chronicle thousands of years of Majipoor’s history, from...

  • Hot Times in Magma City

    The stories in this volume were written between July of 1990 and March of 1995--the second half of the fifth decade of my career as a science-fiction writer. I don't think I could have imagined, when I began that career in the early 1950s, that scien...

  • Science Fiction:101: Exploring the Craft of Science Fiction

    Before Robert Silverberg won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards and became Grand Master of science fiction, he was a young man learning the art and craft of writing the genre. In Science Fiction: 101, Silverberg reveals the roots of modern science ficti...

  • Reflections & Refractions

    CHRONICLING the events and key ideas from the second half of the 20th century in both the world of science fiction and the world at large, this collection from a Grand Master of the genre offers a unique perspective with the fine edge of honed artist...

  • The Millennium Express: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine

    But, for all that, I went on writing short fiction all through the seventh and eighth decades of my life, and though I'm not very active these days, I would still pay attention if someone were to approach me with an interesting and challenging short-...

  • The Millennium Express

    "But, for all that, I went on writing short fiction all through the seventh and eighth decades of my life, and though I'm not very active these days, I would still pay attention if someone were to approach me with an interesting and challenging short...

  • We, the Marauders

    The beings that dwelt on Ganymede didn’t use metals, but they didn’t want to deal with Earthmen, either; and Earth needed those metals. The Ganymedeans were harmless primitives, but that wouldn’t do; pacifying such aliens, and grabbing their me...

  • Time Gate

    In the mid 21st Century the United States is a sleeping giant, lost in dreams of faded glory. But in one field we still reign supreme: entertainment, which in this future means computer simulations. That’s why it is in America that the final comput...

  • Early Days

    In 2006, Robert Silverberg published In the Beginning, a generous selection of stories from the early, developmental stages of his distinguished sixty-year career. Fast-paced, energetic, and unabashedly pulp-like in their origins and ambitions, those...

  • This Way to the End Times

    THIS WAY TO THE END TIMES: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse, gathers 21 compelling, gripping stories of the not-too-distant demise of the earth as we know it. And what a collection. From little-known, brilliant tales by sci-fi legends Jules Vernes and...

  • The Emperor and the Maula

    Robert Silverberg’s The Emperor and the Maula was written in 1992 for an aborted publishing project and has been printed only once, in a radically abbreviated version. This deluxe new edition restores more than 15,000 words of missing text, allowin...

  • First-Person Singularities

    First-Person Singularities, stories by science fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg, features eighteen tales written over the course of his forty-year career, all told in the first-person singular. Inspired by W. Somerset Maugham’s Six Stories Wr...

  • Time and Time Again

    Winner of the 2018 Foreword INDIES Award Gold Medal for Best Sci-Fi! TIME AND TIME AGAIN: Sixteen Trips in Time by beloved science fiction Grand Master ROBERT SILVERBERG presents of all his best time travel fiction in one stunning collection. Silverb...

  • Robert Silverberg's Colonies: Return to Belzagor

    Based on Robert Silverberg’s bestselling Sci-Fi novels about Humanity’s search for immortality out among the stars.
    BONUS: Art and Design pages
    This three-volume series begins with Silverberg’s homage to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Dar...

  • Alien Archives

    Aliens in all shapes and sizes -- some fearsome, some outlandish, and some just plain fun -- fill the pages of these hand-picked classic stories by sci-fi grand master Robert Silverberg, each featuring a new introduction by the acclaimed author. Eve...

  • Voyagers

    Every science-fiction story is a voyage of some kind -- to a world of a far-off galaxy, to our own world of the distant future or the remote past, to some interior corner of the human soul. In VOYAGERS: Twelve Journeys through Space and Time, Science...

  • The Hot Beat

    A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn't commit in the long-lost crime novel of Robert Silverberg, SFF Writers of America Grand Master, available for the first time in over 60 years.HAD L.A.’S HOTTEST BANDLEADERBECOME AN INST...

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    THEY'VE SEEN THE FUTURE -- AND IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.... What's going to happen when the world ends? Here are 14 humorous, poignant, eerie, and altogether too possible views of what things will be like when: Walking for pleasure and exercise b...

Award-Winning Books by Robert Silverberg

Born With the Dead
1975 Locus Award -- Novella
1975 Nebula Award -- Novella
Lord Valentine's Castle
1981 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
Nightwings
1969 Hugo Award -- Novella
Sailing to Byzantium
1986 Nebula Award -- Novella
The Secret Sharer
1988 Locus Award -- Novella
A Time of Changes
1972 Nebula Award -- Novel


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Robert Silverberg has published 188 books.

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