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THE SEARCH FOR ‘THE HIGH ONES’ Retro Book Review of: ‘ACROSS A BILLION YEARS’ by ROBERT SILVERBERG (Victor Gollancz, 1977. Magnum Paperback ...
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg (1980)
2.5/5 (Average) For me Robert Silverberg has finally lost his aura. I knew it would happen eventually if I delved into his lesser read 60s works -- but I'd been impressed recently with a string of his best (Thorns, Downward to the Earth, The World Inside) which created the aforementioned aura. I believe in the…
A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg (1971)
Cover art by Walter Velez.
(Richard Powers' cover for the 1967 edition) 3.5/5 (Good) "And there is light, before and beyond our vision, for which we give thanks. And there is heat, for which we are humble. And there is power, for which we count ourselves blessed. Blessed be Balmer, who gave us wavelengths. Blessed be Bohr, who brought us…
(Harry Schaare's cover for the 1966 edition) 3/5 (Average) Silverberg's young adult (juvenile) science fiction novel Time of the Great Freeze (1964) is a by the numbers with few extra frills pulp adventure with a time-worn but still seductive premise: underground cities! Unlike Heinlein's best juvenile sci-fi works (Starman Jones, Citizen of the Galaxy, etc),…
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Condition: Very Good First Edition with dustjacket as seen in pics, Nice tight binding clean book inside and out Binding: Hardcover - cloth binding Author: Silverberg, Robert Publisher: Doubleday & Co. Inc. Publication Year: 1971 Copyright 1971 First edition of this hardcover copyright and published in the same year Weight: 11 0z. book Size 5.75 inches wide by 8.6 inches long by .8 of one inch thick Pages in book 184 Product Group: Book Vintage book, Antique book, Fiction book Language: English ISBN: 9780385036214 ISBN: 0385036213 Topic: Science Fiction Book Review 1) In Robet Silverberg's novel "The World Inside" humanity attains utopia in the year 2381 when the population of the planet has grown to 75 billion people. War, starvation, crime and also birth control have been eliminated. Life is now totally fulfilled and sustained within Urbmons, mammoth skyscrapers a thousand stories high. This is also a world of total sexual freedom where men and women are expected to engage in "night walking"; refusing an invention for sex makes you a rude host. In this world it is a blessing to have children: most people are married at 12 and parents at 14. In fact, just thinking of controlling families is deemed heretical and something for which people can be put to death. Because the need to be outdoors and to travel has been eliminated thoughts of wanderlust are considered sick as well and speaking of them is another heresy. After all, these citizens live in a utopia. The assumption of the system is that only those who are insane would have thoughts about things like privacy, faithfulness, and trust. But in Urbmon 116 there are those who want to have some individuality in their lives. Charles Mattern is a minor functionary who is disappointed that he and his wife, Principessa, had to stop at only four children. Siegmund Kluver sees the perfectly patterned existence of the Urbmons as being flawed even though he is destined to one of the omnipotent leaders of the Urbmon. So he searches throughout the vast complex of Urbmon 116 trying to find some answer to the doubts and fears that drive him, knowing that his entire future is being put in jeopardy by his actions. "The World Inside" started out as a series of short stories about a grossly overpopulated Earth. There is Aureau Holston, a childless woman who is afraid her lowly status will force her family to emigrate to a newly constructed building, away from the only home they have ever known. The other two key characters in the novel are Jason Quevedo, a historian whose study of the ancient past is changing his views about the Utopia in which he lives, and Michael Statler, who actually escapes to the world outside Urbmon 116 only to learn that such freedom is problematic as well. Through these characters Silverberg addresses some of the world's most important issues and takes them to the sort of logical but extreme conclusion that tales of science fiction are so capable of creating. The question is whether the gift of life is more precious that the quality of the individual. As is the tradition in utopian and dystopian novels, we are introduced to this brave new world through the eyes of a visitor from a colony on Venus, who is being guided by Mattern. This is a minor flaw in the novel, because why this gives us the requisite neophyte to be educated, it points to colonies off world where things might not only be different, but better. However, Silverberg does manage to do all of this in a more concise novel than is often the case with dystopian stories. You can also tell that this is a novel written around the time of the Sixties since one character achieves their true understanding of the Ubrmon's hivelike existence by taking a drug, although that same key moment of insight is achieved by a key character without such artificial inducement. Reading this today the great irony is that the population of the Earth has increased alarmingly, yet overpopulation is not the pressing concern it was when Silverberg wrote this book and Frank Brunner did "Stand on Zanzibar." 2) I thought this really was a top notch book, I did not enjoy it as much personally as his other book Dying Inside, which is deservedly part of the Science Fiction Masterworks series but it still manages to ask a lot of great questions about a possible distant future while being a readable novel along the way. The book depicts a sort of distant future high rise reality in which people are contentedly adapted to living in highly hierarchical, confined conditions, in which privacy, monogamy, even modesty, are long forgotten/arcane concepts. It is an arrangement of stories, for instance the first featuring a visitor from off world to whom the conventions of the tower dwellers are curious, a later one featuring a social researcher/historian, which allow the author to pose questions and answer them in an imaginative way. So if you like good "inner space" fiction, the sort that asks questions like are conventions a product of psychological conditioning or selective breeding/intrinsic traits, or if taboos are dispensed with only to be replaced by fresh taboos (or simply forced into the unconscious), how flexible or adaptive human beings are (the old essence vs existence questions) then this book is for you. There's even some great dialogue between the researcher and a colleague about whether their work will be truly scientific if rather than testing hypothesis it is merely gathering evidence to support an a priori assumption (confirmation bias). One of my favorite passages, which is short again, maybe two or three sentences, is about the use of a search engine, which has access to all the information and data on record but will only produce a good answer if you can ask a good question. This book was written in 1970 and I could not think of a better way of describing how internet based search engines work. So it is not just futurism but good futurism. Like Philip K Dick's writing Silverberg is able to throw in these great, complex or at least sophisticated points without any kind of divergence from the narrative or pacing issues in the writing. I like reading books like this which manage to combine fiction that allows you learn, proves to be thought provoking, without becoming dull or tedious in the reading. Highly recommend this one.
5/5 (Masterpiece) Robert Silverberg strikes gold with Hawksbill Station (1968), a dark, restrained, and powerful rumination. I have found Silverberg's novels, like those of one of my other sci-fi favorites John Brunner, hit or miss. The worst of Silverberg's novels I've read, for example The Time Hoppers (1967) and Master of Life and Death (1957), are cringeworthy. His…
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Daniel Scott White has curated a collection of short stories "unfit" for those who insist science fiction must travel the currently known possible. These stories include one where humans are splitting into separate time streams and how they adapt to the change; a sexbot which makes an erroneous conclusion about itself; a society's novel approach to personal crimes and their punishments; the multiverse coughing up fairy tale creatures in search of a quick buck while pursued by their appropriate law enforcement; multiple universes which are fine with the protagonist as long as her beloved Ernie is included; one human-machine hybrid's chance to live life free from its designed purpose; and more. I enjoyed these stories very much; in fact, I remember reading several of them more than twenty years ago in other publications. David Scott White has resurrected the old and reissued them for a new audience, whom I suspect will enjoy them every bit as much as I did originally. The writing is spectacularly competent and a reminder of why the old system of publishing used to work so well, even if it did leave some credible work on the sidelines. Nothing within Unfit Magazine, Volume 1 bears the amateurish approach seen in today's worst indie publishers. Quality shows. My favorite story, which I remember very well from the 70s, is "To See the Invisible Man" by Robert Silverberg. In fact, I'm sure I have that story in my library somewhere. I would expect this collection to appeal to any serious science fiction and fantasy fan, regardless of age, except for those who would find them "unfit" for science fiction.
