Robert Silverberg

Judge Carter Gates of the Third Circuit Court finished his chicken salad on whole wheat, thoughtfully crumpled the waxed paper bag and turned to drop it in the waste basket behind his chair—and sat transfixed.Through his second-floor office window, he...

"Choose" the robonurse said. Larry had reached the age where he had to choose. Would he choose to stay in the unworried world of the child or would he choose to enter the adult world with it's worries and anxieties and troubles? Why would society do...

The atomic war is over, but America has not found peace.Center City survived because Lloyd Riddell refused to let it die. While nuclear fire devastated the country and civilization collapsed around him, Riddell held his people together and helped...

Lieutenant McDermott is big, bruised, and far past anyone’s idea of a spotless hero. When a diplomat’s daughter vanishes, the Galaxy Patrol sends the one man they can spare—and the last man you’d bet on. The trail leads to Breckmyer IV, a wet,...

A tale of transcendence, Downward to the Earth is a remarkable novel from one of the most imaginative minds in science fiction.Edmund Gunderson—former Terran governor of the colony world of Belzagor—returns eight years after the planet has gained...

Travel back in time a billion years to Hawksbill Station -- twice.Join in this haunting tale of time travel, loss, betrayal, and redemption through both versions of Silverberg's Hawksbill Station in the same volume.Includes the original novella and...

In a future society where violence has vanished from daily life, a single criminal brings the government to its knees. Laws still exist, councils still meet, and ideals still matter—but none of them can stop a man who is willing to threaten, kill, and...

Roy had been preparing for the odd isolation of time travel, but nothing had prepared him for his final arrival on Atlantis — a shimmering city far beyond his imagination. The new technology had allowed Roy’s consciousness to enter the mind of the...

Robots searching for answers, invaders arriving from beyond Earth, dangerous worlds waiting to be explored, and ordinary people confronting the impossible fill Lost Sci-Fi Books 101 thru 120, a collection of twenty vintage science fiction short...

Something is tapping insistently against a window. Horribly transformed humans struggle in a world that has changed beyond recognition. An Earthman discovers the power of an alien god. And across the stars, freedom and survival hang in the...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 101 thru 110 - Ten Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sSomething was tapping on the window. Blowing up against the pane, again and again. Carried by the wind.They were like creatures painted by a drunken artist,...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 121 thru 130 - Ten Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60sSeventh Victim by Robert Sheckley - The most dangerous game, said one writer, is Man. But there is another still more deadly!The Turning Wheel by...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 276 thru 280 brings together five vintage science fiction stories from Tom Godwin, Robert Silverberg, Ray Cummings, Donald A. Wollheim, and Robert Sheckley—five writers with very different visions of what might be waiting beyond the...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 356 thru 360 brings together five imaginative stories from E. M. Hull, Robert Silverberg, Mel Hunter, Gerda Rhoads, and Don Mark Lemon. Wishes have consequences, isolation becomes dangerous, and seemingly simple situations lead...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 466 thru 470 delivers five unforgettable journeys through the vast frontier of space, where survival, discovery, and the human spirit are tested against impossible odds. Featuring stories from Walter M. Miller Jr., Jack Williamson,...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 81 thru 90 - Ten Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60sShe noticed the change in her husband -- but she had married for better or worse!Something went wrong... and Ed Fletcher got mixed up in the biggest thing in his...

The beautiful girl lying naked and curled in a fetal position on the padded floor was a genius. Or rather had been before suddenly going crazy and then catatonic 3 years before. Jim Lawrence, the chief psychiatrist was responsible for her care and it...

When Captain Johnny Harmon and his crew detour to an uncharted Earth-type world for minor repairs, they expect an uneventful layover. Instead, they discover the shattered remains of a legendary lost starliner—and the grotesquely mutated descendants of...

Kiley has spent his life slipping through locked doors and security grids, always one step ahead—until the day a psionic alarm lands him in a prison cell deep beneath Alpheraz VII. There, in the darkness, a voice enters his mind with an offer no thief...

The Terran colony on Dunhill V exists by permission rather than force. Its human population is small, temporary, and vastly outmatched by the planet’s native inhabitants—giant humanoids whose physical presence alone makes violence unthinkable. For...

In Postmark Ganymede, Hal Preston is furious, humiliated, and certain that his career is over. Once a proud member of the Space Patrol, he’s been reassigned to the Postal Service—a fate he interprets as an insult and a punishment. His new mission...

Rescue Mission is a tense, fast-paced adventure set on the brutal planet Mordarga, where Earth intelligence agent Rick Mason must save his telepathically linked partner, Klon Darra, before the Mordargans extract deadly secrets. What begins as a...

Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri...

The Happy Unfortunate was published first in Amazing Stories in 1957 and explores the angst caused when the human race reaches into space but at the cost of needing to breed a new species; specialized 'spacers' who can withstand the tremendous rigors...