Robert Silverberg
By the Author
Needle in a Timestack
Needle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best - intelligent, inventive, and visionary. This collection showcases his talent for thought-provoking science fiction,…
Aliens from Space
Originally published in 1958, under the pseudonym David Osborne. Dr. Jeffrey Brewster, assistant professor of psycho-sociology at Columbia University, had been six weeks old when…
The Shrouded Planet
Shrouded - perpetually shrouded - by a blanket of clouds, the planet of Nidor made its slow way through space. A year on Nidor was…
The Dawning Light
The Earthmen came to Nidor and the most important thing they brought with them was - change. Change in old-age ways of living. Change in…
Starhaven
After years of beachcombing on the pleasure planet of Mulciber, ex-engineer Johnny Mantell thought he had hit rock bottom. But when he was unjustly accused…
Phases of the Moon
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…
The Millennium Express
The Collected Stories Volume 9: The Millennium Express (1995 - 2009) Winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Robert Silverberg is one of the all…
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…
Musings and Meditations
Presenting acclaimed essays from one of contemporary science fiction's most imaginative wordsmiths, this collection shows that Robert Silverberg's nonfiction is as witty and original as…
Lest We Forget Thee Earth
A hundred thousand years ago, there had been a planet called Earth. It had been a proud world ruling a thousand vassal stars, but its…
When The Blue Shift Comes
In the far future, Earth is about to be swallowed by a black hole in this sweeping SF epic from one of the masters of…
Reflections and Refractions
Nearly twenty years ago Robert Silverberg began writing a monthly column of opinion and commentary, for Galileo Magazine, Amazing Stories, and then for Isaac Asimov's…
Hot Times in Magma City
The Collected Stories Volume 8: Hot Times in Magma City (1990 - 1995) Winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Robert Silverberg is one of…
Roma Eterna
The Roman Empire never fell. Riven by political ambition and internal dissent, thrown into turmoil by rebellion and civil war, it changed and adapted, and…
Invisible Barriers
First published in 1958 under the pseudonym David Osborne, Invisible Barriers is an expansion of the short story "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down" (1957),…
Hunt the Space-Witch!
Between 1956 and 1958, Silverberg contributed dozens of short stories and novellas to the digest pulps, each written in the bombastic, high-adventure style of the…
The Longest Way Home
For more than a thousand years, Homeworld has been unchanged: the Great Houses rule and peace between them is enforced by unbreakable webs of kinship.…
The New Springtime
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…
Tales of Majipoor
From one of the masters of SF comes this new collection of stories, all set on his most famous creation - the world of Majipoor.…
Letters from Atlantis
It is the 21st century, and a man can journey through time in the form of disembodied consciousness. Now Roy Colton is about to leap…
We Are For the Dark
The Collected Stories Volume 7: We Are For The Dark (1987 - 1990) Winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Robert Silverberg is one of…
Multiples
The Collected Stories Volume 6: Multiples (1983 - 1987) Winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Robert Silverberg is one of the all time greats…
The Plot Against Earth
NEVER FOLLOW A FALLING STAR! The humanoid worlds of the galaxy were alarmed! Somehow, somewhere the mind-destroying hypnojewels were being trafficked in. An uneasy Earth,…
A Time of Changes
Three thousand years after Earth's colonisation of the planet Borthan, stories of self-serving hypocrisy that occured among the first arrivals have bred a culture that…
To the Land of the Living
What if there were an Afterworld? Not Heaven or Hell in the conventional sense, but a place where everyone who has ever lived reawakens when…
The Book Of Skulls
Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can…
The Thirteenth Immortal
"Who was your father?" the mutant asked Dale Kesley. And try as he might, Kesley could not remember; his past was an utter blank. But…
Revolt on Alpha C
Robert Silverberg's debut novel, first published in 1955.
Master of Life and Death
Hour by hour, the computers produce the names of those to die. Simple. Neat. Ruthless. In a world where human feelings seem frozen, one spirit…
Recalled to Life
When a nervous scientist from Beller Laboratories approached James Harker, asking him to introduce a new scientific discovery to the world, Harker had his own…
Across a Billion Years
Scattered throughout the globe of human-occupied space is evidence of a civilisation that bestrode the galaxy before humanity was born. Now, a strange device has…
Nightwings
Old Earth has reached its Third Cycle, a tired planet basking in the faded glories of a lost civilisation. Long ago it had been great…
To Open the Sky
The Vorsters Were the blue-robed worshippers of the atom, symbolised by the Cobalt-60 reactors that glowed blindingly on every alter in their fast-growing churches. The…
World's Fair 1992
Bill Hastings was one in a million. He was the winner of a planet-wide contest, and the prize was a chance to spend a year…
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…
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…
The Time Hoppers
ROBERT SILVERBERG confronts the paradoxes of time travel in a brilliant novel of the 25th century, when the only escape from suffocation in a totally…
Time of the Great Freeze
2650 AD The Earth has been buried beneath a sheet of ice for 300 years. In cities miles beneath the surface humanity huddles, waiting for…
The Gate of Worlds
From Turkish dominated Europe, across the high seas to the land of opportunity - the Aztec Empire. Dan Beauchamp is a young Englishman whose heart…
The Silent Invaders
Abner Harris was sent to Earth on a mission of extreme urgency. The universe was in danger of enslavement by the Medlins, and the fight…
Those Who Watch
'The explosion was painfully bright against the dark backdrop of the moonless New Mexico sky. To those who looked up at that precise moment -…
Regan's Planet
In 1492, Colombus discovered America. In 1992 Claude Regan had to make it happen again! The US needed a shot in the arm as the…
Starman's Quest
The Lexman Spacedrive gave man the stars - but at a fantastic price. Interstellar exploration, colonisation, and trade became things of reality. The benefits to…
Stepsons of Terra
It had been five hundred years since the distant Terran Colony of Corwin had communicated with Earth. But now Corwin was threatened by the indomitable…
Collision Course
The crew of the XV-ftl was looking forward to shore leave, vacation, and a chance to see their families after a month in space. But…
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…
The Planet Killers
It was in wide-eyed horror that Roy Gardner heard the news from the Chief of Security. In just sixty-seven years the Earth would be totally…
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…
Thebes of the Hundred Gates
Edward Davis was a promising rookie in the Time Service. He had made jumps into the past - two, three, even six centuries - but…
To Live Again
Paul Kaufmann is dead - but his mind lives on. And the mind of a financial genius is always in demand. Mark Kaufmann, the old…
The Second Trip
Manhattan 2012: Nat Hamlin's brilliant career as an artist came to an end the day he went insane and embarked on a murderous rampage ...…
Three Survived
When their spaceship explodes on a hostile planet, three survivors face certain death unless they can reach a special beacon which will enable them to…
Up the Line
Time travel spelled problems for the couriers of the Time Service. Shuttling backwards and forwards over the centuries they had to be wary of creating…
Gilgamesh the King
'You will be a King, and Great King, and then you will Die, and you may not avoid that destiny, try as you may¿' Two-thirds…
Kingdoms of the Wall
For Poilar Crookleg, the Pilgrimage to Kosa Saag has been a lifelong dream. Each year twenty men and twenty women attempt to reach the Summit,…
The Face of the Waters
It is the year 2450. Humanity is scattered among the stars, which teem with intelligent life, while the home world has been destroyed by an…
The Alien Years
The new millennium has barely begun when a vast fleet of alien vessels descends without warning on the Earth. Some starships blaze mighty trails of…
Project Pendulum
Identical twins Sean and Eric have been chosen for a daring experiment. One of them will travel into the distant past. The other into the…
Lord Valentine's Castle
Set in an immense world teeming with alien races and fantastic, almost magical, machinery, Valentine, an itinerant juggler, wakes up one morning with only a…
Lost Race of Mars
Are the Old Martians really a lost race - just withered mummies lying in dark caves? Or are they still alive - somewhere on the…
The Seed of Earth
The computer had chosen them - a small cross-section of humanity to serve Mankind's Destiny. Out of seven billion people on Earth mechanical chance had…
The Stochastic Man
Lew Nichols' business, at the end of the twentieth century, was stochastic prediction - high-powered guesswork. He was very good at this well-paid, sophisticated form…
Hawksbill Station
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…
Son of Man
IN THE BEGINNING . . . There was no Brooklyn, no St. Louis, no Shakespeare, no moon, no hunger, no death . . . IN…
Starborne
It will be the greatest voyage of exploration in human history. Fifty men and women are chosen to crew the Wotan. Their mission: to travel…
Trips
The Collected Stories Volume 4: Trips (1972 - 1973) Winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Robert Silverberg is one of the all time greats…
The Palace at Midnight
The Collected Stories Volume 5: The Palace At Midnight (1980 - 1982) Winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Robert Silverberg is one of the…
Valentine Pontifex
'Valentine looked downward. Everything was black, a pool of night rising from the floor. That blackness seemed to be beckoning to him. Come, a quiet…
Majipoor Chronicles
Come to Majipoor, the magnificent, exotic planet of LORD VALENTINE'S CASTLE. Come with Hissune, favourite of Lord Valentine, as he probes the deepest secrets of…
The Mountains of Majipoor
Silverberg returns to the world of his greatest triumph - Majipoor - to tell the thrilling story of a young man's quest into the unknown!…
Sorcerers of Majipoor
THE FIFTH MAJIPOOR NOVEL On the gigantic planet Majipoor it is a time of ancient mysteries and new wonders. The aged Pontifex Prankipin is at…
Lord Prestimion
Set a thousand years before the reign of Lord Valentine, in a time of ancient mysteries, new wonders and new horrors, this is the fifth…
To the Dark Star
The Collected Stories Volume 2: To The Dark Star (1962 - 1969) Winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Robert Silverberg is one of the…
To Be Continued
The Collected Stories Volume 1: To Be Continued 1953 - 1958 Winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Robert Silverberg is one of the all…
In the Beginning
In the Beginning is a showcase of artefacts from a vanished age: sixteen of Robert Silverberg's earliest stories reprinted in for the first time in…
The King of Dreams
The years since first he gained the Starburst Crown have been difficult ones for Coronal Lord Prestimion and the vast, unfathomable realm he rules. But…
Something Wild is Loose
The Collected Stories Volume 3: Something Wild is Loose (1969 - 1972) Winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Robert Silverberg is one of the…
The Man In The Maze
During his heroic first encounter with an alien race, Dick Muller was permanently altered, hideously transformed in a way that left him repulsive to the…
Shadrach in the Furnace
The year is 2012. The world lies ravaged by biological warfare, its population decimated by a ferocious genetically-transmitted disease known as the organ rot. And…
Tower Of Glass
Simeon Krug's obsession is to see a tower built, on kilometre high, that will reach out to answer the voice from space. The Androids are…
The Masks Of Time
Vornan-19 fell from the sky and landed, naked, on the Spanish Steps in Rome on the afternoon of Christmas Day toward the end of the…
Tom O'Bedlam
The 22nd century, 150 years after the Dust War destroyed America's Mid-West, and much else besides. California is a last outpost for survival and reclamation…
At Winter's End
The Long Winter is over. The People of the New Springtime must go out and reclaim their world. For generations the survivors of the cataclysm…
The World Inside
The year is 2381. The place is Urban Monad 116 of the constellation Chippitts. The population of this one-thousand storey super-structure is 800,000+ and always…
Hot Sky at Midnight
There's no mistaking the terminal phase of irreversible catastrophe. The climate has gone berserk. Rising oceans inundate swamps and deserts. Genetic engineers have yet to…
Star of Gypsies
It is a thousand years from now. The tenuous galactic empire humanity has cast across the skies depends for its very existence on hyperspace and…
Dying Inside
Born with the extraordinary power to look deep within the human heart, David Selig recklessly misuses his gift in the pursuit of pleasure, until his…
Downward To The Earth
One man must make a journey across a once colonised alien planet. Abandoned by man when it was discovered that the species there were actually…