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Every day we are discovering new worlds in far-reaching galaxies which may or may not sustain life as we know it. In Alien Archives: Eighteen Stories of Extraterrestrial Encounters, sci-fi Grand Master Robert Silverberg collects his finest short stories and novellas about one of the genre's most enduring themes. Spanning fifty years of writing from the Science Fiction Grand Master, this collection of alien encounters features new introductions to...
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Amazing Stories Volume 163 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by different authors: "The Overlords Thumb", by Robert Silverberg, "West O' Mars", by Charles L. Fontenay, "The Way Out", by Richard Rein Smith, and "Go To Sleep, My Darling" by Winston K. Marks.
63) Up the Line
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It's 2059, and former law clerk Jud Elliott finds himself at loose ends-until a chance meeting with a Time Courier gives him the inspiration to become one himself. The job-as a time-traveling guide-gives him the opportunity to indulge his love of Byzantine history, in between shuttling tourists to such monumental events as the crucifixion and the assassination of JFK.
But there are strict rules to follow as a Time Courier, put in place to guard...
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Dale Kesley was a simple farmer in the Iowa province of the North American empire when van Arlen found him. He'd been looking for the young man for four years and came to take him to Antarctica. Coincidentally, Dale couldn't remember much of his life before four years before. Antarctica is the thirteenth empire set up after the world had nearly destroyed itself in a nuclear war. In order to recover and rebuild the world had agreed to a simpler life....
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Amazing Stories Volume 196 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three short stories by different authors: "The Mystery of Deneb IV" by Robert Silverberg, "A Kiss for The Conqueror" by Henry Slesar and "Meteor Strike!" by Donald E. Westlake.
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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 and rescue them.But is he ready for all that Egypt has to offer and for the surprising truths he discovers as he explores this ancient land of myths and mysteries-truths that jeopardize his own mission and...
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When Ben Bova sold his original science fiction anthology, The Many Worlds of Science Fiction in 1969, he invited Robert Silverberg to contribute to it. Silverberg penned "Something Wild Is Loose" in the final weeks of 1969, just after completing his psychedelic SF novel Son of Man.
69) Recalled to Life
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It is the story of a group of scientists who discover a way to bring back to life people who have been dead for a day. The main character is an ex-politician and lawyer who takes on the job as frontman for the group. He has to make his way through the legal and political minefield the process brings up.
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 19: March 2016
Mike Resnick, Editor
Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Larry Hodges, Robert Silverberg, Steve Pantazis, Dantzel Cherry, Jean Rabe, Ian Whates, Janis Ian, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Sunil Patel, David Drake, Kary English, Robert B Finegold, M.D.
Serialization: The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
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ISSUE 25: March 2017
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Samantha Murray, Sunil Patel, Kay Kenyon, George Nikolopoulos, Andrea G. Stewart, Kevin J. Anderson, Alex Shvartsman, Brennan Harvey, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Yaroslav Barsukov, Tina Gower, Robert Silverberg.
Serialization: Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford
Recommended Books: Jody Lynn Nye and Bill...
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Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories:
WHAT'S HE DOING IN THERE? by Fritz Leiber
THE MARCHING MORONS, by C.M. Kornbluth
GHOST, by Darrell Schweitzer
DEATH WISH, by Robert Sheckley
THE WAVERIES, by Fredric Brown
ADAM AND NO EVE, by Alfred Bester
FOXY LADY, by Lawrence Watt-Evans
THIN EDGE, by Randall Garrett
COMPANDROID, by Nina Kiriki...
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Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories (plus a bonus short-short):
UNKNOWN THINGS, by Reginald Bretnor
CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, by Samuel R. Delany
EXPEDITER, by Mack Reynolds
ONE-SHOT, by James Blish
SHIPWRECK IN THE SKY, by Eando Binder
ZEN, by Jerome Bixby
LANCELOT BIGGS COOKS A PIRATE, by Nelson Bond
SENTIMENT, INC., by Poul Anderson
THE...
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Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories (plus a bonus short-short):
UNKNOWN THINGS, by Reginald Bretnor
CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, by Samuel R. Delany
EXPEDITER, by Mack Reynolds
ONE-SHOT, by James Blish
SHIPWRECK IN THE SKY, by Eando Binder
ZEN, by Jerome Bixby
LANCELOT BIGGS COOKS A PIRATE, by Nelson Bond
SENTIMENT, INC., by Poul Anderson
THE...
75) Age of Anxiety
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"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 this to him? To everyone? Why was he forced to choose?! But choose he must and his choice would be irrevocable. Peace and tranquility or worry and anxiety; it looked like an obvious choice to make. But...
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Seven stories of Majipoor from science fiction grand master Robert Silverberg Hailed as "one of the most fully realized worlds of modern science fiction" (Booklist), Majipoor is a planet unlike any other, with countless untold stories. Now, available for the first time in one volume, Silverberg presents seven tales that chronicle thousands of years of Majipoor's history, from the arrival of the settlers of Old Earth to the expansion of vast cities...
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StarShipSofa: The Audio Science Fiction Magazine is one of the top SF podcasts in the multiverse that delves into the world of SF, and where host Tony C. Smith focuses on a particular SF author, publisher or SF topic and digs deep to uncover all aspects of that writer or topic-simply put … it's the show that will give you a little more than a Wiki page. Abner Harris came to Earth on a mission of extreme urgency. A subject of the Spirit had no right...
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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 full-length novel versions of 'Hawksbill Station' plus an introduction and afterword, describing how each version came to be written.
Jim Barrett, once the leader of an underground movement bent...
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Once a hero, now a pariah, Richard Muller is humanity's last hope. Richard Muller was an honorable diplomat who braved unimaginable dangers to make contact with the first-known race of intelligent aliens. But those aliens left a mark on him: a psychic wound that emanates a telepathic miasma that his fellow humans can neither cure nor endure. Muller is exiled to the remote planet of Lemnos, where he is left, deeply embittered, at the heart of a deadly...
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A remarkable collection, Robots through the Ages includes stories from some of the best writers of science fiction, both old and new.
This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout literature. Since The Iliad-in which we are shown golden statues built by Hephaestus "with minds and wisdoms"-humans have been fascinated by the idea of artificial life. From the Argonautica to the medieval...
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