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The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg #4
The Road to Nightfall
1st Phoenix trade edition paperback new
400 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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Robert Silverberg
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Robert Silverberg is a highly celebrated American science fiction author and editor known for his prolific output and literary range. Over a career spanning decades, he has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2004. Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999, Silverberg is recognized for both his immense productivity and his contributions to the genre's evolution.
Born in Brooklyn, he began writing in his teens and won his first Hugo Award in 1956 as the best new writer. Throughout the 1950s, he produced vast amounts of fiction, often under pseudonyms, and was known for writing up to a million words a year. When the market declined, he diversified into other genres, including historical nonfiction and erotica.
Silverberg’s return to science fiction in the 1960s marked a shift toward deeper psychological and literary themes, contributing significantly to the New Wave movement. Acclaimed works from this period include Downward to the Earth, Dying Inside, Nightwings, and The World Inside. In the 1980s, he launched the Majipoor series with Lord Valentine’s Castle, creating one of the most imaginative planetary settings in science fiction.
Though he announced his retirement from writing in the mid-1970s, Silverberg returned with renewed vigor and continued to publish acclaimed fiction into the 1990s. He received further recognition with the Nebula-winning Sailing to Byzantium and the Hugo-winning Gilgamesh in the Outback.
Silverberg has also played a significant role as an editor and anthologist, shaping science fiction literature through both his own work and his influence on others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, author Karen Haber.
Robert Silverberg is a highly celebrated American science fiction author and editor known for his prolific output and literary range. Over a career spanning decades, he has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2004. Inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999, Silverberg is recognized for both his immense productivity and his contributions to the genre's evolution.
Born in Brooklyn, he began writing in his teens and won his first Hugo Award in 1956 as the best new writer. Throughout the 1950s, he produced vast amounts of fiction, often under pseudonyms, and was known for writing up to a million words a year. When the market declined, he diversified into other genres, including historical nonfiction and erotica.
Silverberg’s return to science fiction in the 1960s marked a shift toward deeper psychological and literary themes, contributing significantly to the New Wave movement. Acclaimed works from this period include Downward to the Earth, Dying Inside, Nightwings, and The World Inside. In the 1980s, he launched the Majipoor series with Lord Valentine’s Castle, creating one of the most imaginative planetary settings in science fiction.
Though he announced his retirement from writing in the mid-1970s, Silverberg returned with renewed vigor and continued to publish acclaimed fiction into the 1990s. He received further recognition with the Nebula-winning Sailing to Byzantium and the Hugo-winning Gilgamesh in the Outback.
Silverberg has also played a significant role as an editor and anthologist, shaping science fiction literature through both his own work and his influence on others. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, author Karen Haber.
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October 21, 2023
21 stories:
Road to Nightfall (1958)
Gorgon Planet (1954)
The Silent Colony (1954)
Absolutely Inflexible (1956)
The Macauley Circuit (1956)
The Songs of Summer (1956)
Alaree (1958)
The Artifact Business (1957)
Collecting Team (1956)
The Man with Talent (1956)
One-Way Journey (1957)
Sunrise on Mercury (1957)
World of a Thousand Colors (1957)
Warm Man (1957)
Blaze of Glory (1957)
Why? (1957)
The Outbreeders (1959)
The Man Who Never Forgot (1958)
There Was an Old Woman (1958)
The Iron Chancellor (1958)
Ozymandias (1958)
Road to Nightfall (1958)
Gorgon Planet (1954)
The Silent Colony (1954)
Absolutely Inflexible (1956)
The Macauley Circuit (1956)
The Songs of Summer (1956)
Alaree (1958)
The Artifact Business (1957)
Collecting Team (1956)
The Man with Talent (1956)
One-Way Journey (1957)
Sunrise on Mercury (1957)
World of a Thousand Colors (1957)
Warm Man (1957)
Blaze of Glory (1957)
Why? (1957)
The Outbreeders (1959)
The Man Who Never Forgot (1958)
There Was an Old Woman (1958)
The Iron Chancellor (1958)
Ozymandias (1958)
December 10, 2008
This book had some very interesting shorts.
January 24, 2017
Robert Silverberg 'The Road to Nightfall" 1958. Very good narration of what could easily happen to a man with a couple of choices that he gets.
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