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The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Vol 8: Hot Times in Magma City 1990-95
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Vol 8 Hot Times in Magma City 199095
Author: Robert Silverberg
Eighth in the volumes collecting all of the short stories and novellas SF Grandmaster Silverberg wants to take their place on the permanent shelf--stories which Silverberg deems the best of his early era. — Contents: —
  • Introduction (Hot Times in Magma City) • essay by Robert Silverberg;
  • In the Clone Zone (1991...  more »
  • Hunters in the Forest (1991);
  • A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple (1992);
  • Thebes of the Hundred Gates (1992);
  • It Comes and Goes (1992);
  • Looking for the Fountain (1992);
  • The Way to Spook City (1992);
  • The Red Blaze Is the Morning (1995);
  • Death Do Us Part (1996);
  • The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James [War of the Worlds] (1996);
  • Crossing Into the Empire (1996);
  • The Second Shield (1995);
  • Hot Times in Magma City (1995).


Robert Silverberg, writing in his Introduction:

The stories in this volume were written between July of 1990 and March of 1995--the second half of the fifth decade of my career as a science-fiction writer. I don't think I could have imagined, when I began that career in the early 1950s, that science-fiction publishing would evolve the way it did over the next forty years. Here, then, is the cream of the Silverberg output, 1990-95. I suppose I wrote more short stories in the first six months of 1957 than in that entire six-year period; but so be it. It's a different world today. I look back nostalgically on the small-town atmosphere of the era in which I began my career, and there are times when I'd be glad to 'call back yesterday, bid time return.' As Shakespeare pointed out, though, that can't be done. The one recourse is the one I have chosen, which is to soldier staunchly onward through the years, come what may, writing a story or two here and a book there, while the world changes out of all recognition around me. And so--to leap neatly from the Bard of Avon to F. Scott Fitzgerald--'so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.' --Robert Silverberg, from his Introduction.
ISBN-13: 9781596065888
ISBN-10: 1596065885
Publication Date: 8/31/2013
Pages: 408
Edition: Deluxe Hardcover
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Publisher: Subterranean Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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