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Jim McCulloch's consciousness awakens inside the body of a sentient lobster ... hmmm, it appears the time travel experiment he volunteered for has overshot its target by a few million (billion?) years. Nebula Award(R) Nominee
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First published September 25, 2003
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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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January 29, 2020
This was first published in 1983
September 10, 2021
In an introduction to this story in the Sailing to Byzantium short story collection, Silverberg writes that he always wanted to write the definitive giant-lobster story. I don't know if this is it, but it certainly contains large lobsters in a far distant future. This novella was a nominee for the Nebula and Locus awards in 1984.
December 1, 2011
This is a short novel in which technology has gotten to the point where man can send a mind into the future. This is the first test with a human and his mind is sent into the future to be placed into a body of whatever creature it can find. The man wakes up inside the mind of a lobster like creature within the depths of an ocean. The story then follows this lobster and the amazement of the man who finds this lobster like creature to be very intelligent. Is this the highest species on earth in the future? He doesn’t know, but he gets involved in an adventure where the lobster like creatures embark on a journey when they learn of the man inhabiting the body of one of their brothers.
It doesn’t sound that exciting, but it is well told out and really pretty fascinating. This isn’t high brow stuff but it does give you a little bit to think about - recommended!
It doesn’t sound that exciting, but it is well told out and really pretty fascinating. This isn’t high brow stuff but it does give you a little bit to think about - recommended!
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