To Be Continued (Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg)
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1596065079 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 396 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly Beginning with his very first sale, "Gorgon Planet," Hugo and Nebula award–winner Silverberg (A Time of Changes) collects 24 stories from the prolific first five years of his career (1953–1958), each piece with a lively headnote about its genesis, magazine venue and editor. (Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. While learning his craft and churning out copy to pay the rent, Silverberg imitated the styles of well-known writers, with such stories as "The Songs of Summer," which borrows the technique of multiple viewpoints from William Faulkner to tell a first contact tale, and "The Silent Colony," which seeks to replicate Robert Sheckley's clarity. . Silverberg also wrote stories to match cover art, a literary exercise that resulted in "Why?" and in the often-anthologized "Sunrise on Mercury." Though none of his best-known or award-winning stories are included, th
Pleasant surprise - Rate : ****1/2 Being a Silverberg fan for years and knowing byexperience that his best works had been writtenbetween 1965-1976 it was with some reservationsthat I picked this volume up.While the majority of the stories don't rankamong his best short works they are wonderfulexamples o. Brad Hawley Brad at FanLit said From good to great stories and ALL of them are fun to read if you enjoy older pulp-style stories with some thematic depth. First posted on the Fantasy Literature SFF book review site.To Be Continued: 195From good to great stories and ALL of them are fun to read if you enjoy older pulp-style stories with some thematic depth First posted on the Fantasy Literature SFF book review site.To Be Continued: 1953-1958 The Collected Short Stories of Robert Silverberg (Vol. 1)Though To Be Continued: 1953-1958 is the first official volume of the definitive collection of Robert Silverberg's short stor. -1958 The Collected Short Stories of Robert Silverberg (Vol. 1)Though To Be Continued: 195From good to great stories and ALL of them are fun to read if you enjoy older pulp-style stories with some thematic depth First posted on the Fantasy Literature SFF book review site.To Be Continued: 1953-1958 The Collected Short Stories of Robert Silverberg (Vol. 1)Though To Be Continued: 1953-1958 is the first official volume of the definitive collection of Robert Silverberg's short stor. -1958 is the first official volume of the definitive collection of Robert Silverberg's short stor. "Hustling for a buck -- an insight into the craft, for writers and readers" according to BookLover59. TO BE CONTINUED, the first volume of THE COLLECTED STORIES OF ROBERT SILVERBERG is essential not only for handful of stories that were far above average ("The Road to Nightfall", "Warm Man", etc.) -- above average as goes the stories of a 20-something writer -- but als
OThough none of his best-known or award-winning stories are included, these selections, which Silverberg deems the best of his early era, illustrate his apprenticeship and presage the Grand Master he has become.ON"Publishers Weekly"