<div>Eleven science fiction stories from noted authors exploring some of their most popular worlds. The universe of the mind is a limitless expanse of wonders, filled with worlds and secrets that cannot be fully explored within the pages of a single novel. Here, science fiction’s most beloved and highly honored writers revisit their best-known worlds in perhaps the greatest concentration of science fiction ever in one volume. Featuring stories by:<ul><li>Ursula K. Le Guin</li><li>Joe Halderman</li><li>Orson Scott Card</li><li>David Brin</li><li>Robert Silverberg</li><li>Dan Simmons </li><li>Nancy Kress</li><li>Frederik Pohl</li><li>Gregory Benford</li><li>Anne McCaffrey</li><li>Greg Bear</li></ul> Praise for Far Horizons “Editor Silverberg here does for science fiction series what he did for fantasy sagas in Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy by presenting eleven noted authors of famous series, each exploring some aspect of theirs that they did not find a way of dealing with in the books of the series proper. . . . The stories remain true to their universes and characters, so they deliver good first-contact experiences for series novices as well as happy reading for longtime fans.” —Booklist “A sampler of the best of the genre. Highly recommended for series fans and newcomers alike and a good choice for most sf collections.” —Library Journal “An ideal combination of the reassuringly familiar and the excitingly new: should prove as popular as its fantasy predecessor.” —Kirkus Reviews</div>

Far Horizons

<div>Winner of the Hugo Award: This classic is an &ldquo;evocative look at a crumbling Earth of the far future and a human race struggling to survive&rdquo; (George R. R. Martin). &ldquo;Roum is a city built on seven hills. They say it was a capital of man in one of the earlier cycles. I knew nothing of that, for my guild was Watching, not Remembering.&rdquo; For a thousand years, mankind has lived under the threat of invasion from an alien race. After the oceans rose and the continents were reshaped, people divided into guilds&mdash;Musicians, Scribes, Merchants, Clowns, and more. The Watchers wander the earth, scouring the skies for signs of enemies from the stars. But during one Watcher&rsquo;s journey to the ancient city of Roum with his companion, a Flier named Avluela, a moment of distraction allows the invaders to advance. When the Watcher finally sounds the alarm, it&rsquo;s too late; the star people are poised to conquer all. And so, with the world in turmoil, the Watcher sets out alone for the Hall of the Rememberers, keepers of the past, where humanity&rsquo;s last hope for survival might be hidden . . . Perfect for readers of Greg Bear and Ursula K. Le Guin, renowned, award-winning author Robert Silverberg&rsquo;s science fiction novel represents the best of the genre and beyond. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

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Nightwings

<div>A team of space archaeologists makes an astonishing discovery about an ancient alien race in this science fiction tale from &ldquo;a master of his craft&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times). Graduate student Tom Rice is thrilled to embark on his first deep-space archeological expedition. He is part of a team from Earth, venturing out in search of artifacts from a civilization that ruled the universe many millennia ago. Called the High Ones, the members of this long-gone society left tantalizing clues about their history and culture scattered throughout space. One such clue, a &ldquo;message cube&rdquo; containing footage of the ancient ones, is more interesting than all of the others combined. It seems to indicate that the High Ones aren&rsquo;t extinct after all&mdash;and just like that, Tom Rice&rsquo;s archeological mission has become an intergalactic manhunt, one filled with ever-increasing danger that will send the explorers hurtling headlong into the greatest adventure&mdash;and peril&mdash;of their lives. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

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Across a Billion Years

<div>After seven hundred thousand years underground, a tribe emerges to a frozen Earth, in this novel from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author. The time of falling death stars ushered in the Long Winter&mdash;eons of cold that caused plants and animals to vanish from Earth and drove people to take refuge in underground cocoons. Human ingenuity had never faced a greater challenge. For seven hundred thousand years, generation after generation was born and died below the Earth&rsquo;s surface. But now, one small tribe is sensing change. Chieftain Koshmar is sure that the New Springtime is near, so she leads her people above ground to explore the new world that awaits. The unfamiliar Earth, still a frozen shell of its former self, will test their mettle in every way, leading the people of the tribe to the brink of their destiny&mdash;or to their doom. At Winter&rsquo;s End is the first book of the New Springtime series, which continues with The Queen of Springtime. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

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At Winter's End

<div>Six science fiction novellas by the author hailed as &ldquo;a master&rdquo; by Robert Jordan&mdash;including two Nebula Award winners and two finalists. Robert Silverberg&rsquo;s novellas open the door to new worlds: In &ldquo;Born with the Dead,&rdquo; a woman wills her body to be &ldquo;rekindled&rdquo; after death, allowing her to walk among the living, while her husband is left in the impossible position of accepting her death when he can still see her. In the Nebula Award&shy;&ndash;nominated story &ldquo;Homefaring,&rdquo; the time-traveling narrator finds himself trapped in the consciousness of a lobsterlike creature of the far future, leading him to reflect on what it means to be human. And in the collection&rsquo;s Nebula Award&shy;&ndash;winning title story, the Earth of the fiftieth century is a place where time is elusive and fluid, and young citizens live as tourists in ancient cities. &ldquo;When Silverberg is at the top of his form, no one is better,&rdquo; says George R. R. Martin. Also including Nebula Award finalist &ldquo;The Secret Sharer,&rdquo; as well as &ldquo;Thomas the Proclaimer&rdquo; and &ldquo;We Are for the Dark,&quot; this collection offers an engrossing exploration of the work of this Grand Master, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as &ldquo;the John Updike of science fiction.&rdquo; This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Sailing to Byzantium

<div>Nebula Award&ndash;winning author: Humans have emerged to reclaim the Earth after the Long Winter. But they never anticipated the battle that awaits . . . As Earth thaws after the Long Winter, the remaining human tribes journey from beneath the continent to the fertile land above. But the hjjk, an ancient insectlike race that remained on Earth&rsquo;s surface throughout the frozen eons, stand in their way. Keeping a tight grip on their power, the hjjks are the chief barrier to the people&rsquo;s further expansion in the New Springtime. When Kundalimon, a human who has lived with the hjjk for seventeen years, arrives as an emissary of peace, the tribes are wary. They rely on Nialli Apuilana, who had been stolen at thirteen by the hjjk and released months later, to ascertain his true mission. But in this new world, it&rsquo;s hard to know whom to trust. As both sides prepare for war, the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. The Queen of Springtime is the second book of the New Springtime series, which begins with At Winter&rsquo;s End. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection, as well as a detailed outline for the final, unrealized title in the New Springtime series, The Summer of Homecoming.</div>

The Queen of Springtime

<div>A thrilling retelling of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;Winning author of Lord Valentine&rsquo;s Castle. Gilgamesh&rsquo;s appetite for wine, women, and warfare is insatiable. As the King of Uruk, he oppresses his people and burdens his city. To temper his excesses, the gods create Enkidu, Gilgamesh&rsquo;s equal, who becomes his greatest friend. Together they wander the kingdom as brothers, conquering demons until a cruel twist changes Gilgamesh&rsquo;s path forever. Two parts god and one part man, Gilgamesh is mortal&mdash;a fate he now resolves to overcome, no matter what the price. And so he embarks on another journey, in pursuit of vengeance and the ultimate prize for a mortal king: eternal life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Gilgamesh the King

<div>Two enthralling novels by Robert Silverberg about a future in which the minds of the living can be changed for a price&mdash;often with dire consequences In To Live Again, thanks to the Scheffing Institute, death is not the end. For a hefty fee, the soul bank stores the personas of those who have died and inserts them into the brains of willing, living hosts. It&rsquo;s a process that integrates the two minds, imbuing the host with a menu of highly valuable abilities, memories, and traits. The more personas one absorbs, the greater his social status. When banking mogul Paul Kaufmann dies, many people apply to receive his persona. The leading applicants&mdash;his bitter business rivals&mdash;are locked in a battle to claim his soul. The Institute follows strict rules to ensure that the host always remains in control, but of course accidents do happen . . . In The Second Trip, Paul Macy wears the Rehab badge, the sign of healing that advertises his status as a reconstruct job. When society derides capital punishment and opts, instead, for personality rehabilitation, criminals undergo mindpick operations in which their identities are stripped and extinguished. Given a new bank of memories and a fresh identity, they are offered a second chance at life. For Paul, though, this gift comes with a price. His former self still lingers inside him, waiting for the opportunity to emerge and battle Paul&rsquo;s new self for ultimate control. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

To Live Again and The Second Trip

<div>&ldquo;Intelligent and engaging science fiction&rdquo; set against the backdrop of an environmental apocalypse from the SF Grand Master (The Washington Post). Not so very far in the future, the icecaps have melted and many coastal communities have been flooded out. The ozone layer is destroyed. Some areas are livable with breathing masks and injections that protect the skin from the now-deadly rays of the sun, but the only real refuge&mdash;for those who can afford it&mdash;has become the near-space orbital colonies built and run by private companies. Valparaiso Nuevo is one of these colonies&mdash;a haven and a center of action for hustlers, conspirators, and people looking for an edge. It is also the target of a disillusioned group of humans who become embroiled in a scheme to overthrow it. Their goals are individually motivated but the deadly combination of ambition, distrust, greed, stupidity, and lust leads to a dramatic conclusion that replicates in miniature the history of man&rsquo;s destruction of his own living space on the planet. A bleak picture of future Earth and a complex plot peopled with dark, rich characters, comes together as one of Silverberg&rsquo;s finer novels. &ldquo;Silverberg focuses on his characters and their ruined world, providing a convincing portrayal of life in a greenhouse effect-cursed future. . . . [He] delivers powerful images of a world blighted by ecological abuse, and a satisfying novel as well.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;It&rsquo;s definitely major Silverberg and as such deserves all the readers it will undoubtedly get.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist </div>

Hot Sky at Midnight

<div>Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist: This tale of an encounter between a probability expert and a psychic is &ldquo;a treasure&rdquo; (San Francisco Examiner). Lew Nichols can predict the future. Not see the future, just make predictions based on research and statistics. Nichols is damn good at it, though, and his accuracy makes him a valuable addition to Paul Quinn&rsquo;s political campaign for New York City Mayor and possibly the White House. But, when Nichols meets eccentric millionaire Martin Carvajal, predictions suddenly seem petty and flippant. You see, Carvajal can actually see the future&mdash;not trends, not options&mdash;a signal line of events stretching out ahead. It&rsquo;s a gift Nichols can learn from this &ldquo;mentor,&rdquo; but at what price? Will knowing the future make the present meaningless?</div>

The Stochastic Man

<div>Stories that &ldquo;belong to a world that has been shaped not only by Asimov and Heinlein but also by Borges, Pynchon and Barthelme&rdquo; (The New York Times). In IRRATIONAL NUMBERS, as with much of his work, author George Alec Effinger straddles the line between allegorical fantasy and science fiction. It&rsquo;s a vein Effinger mines for a deep, meaningful understanding of human nature. Challenging and disquieting in the way only the best fiction can be, this collection of eight magnificent pieces of fiction will have readers clamoring for more. George Alec Effinger was a true master of satirical Science Fiction. Before his death in 2002, he gained the highest esteem amongst his peers for his pitch-perfect stylistic mimicry and his great insight into the human condition. Despite a life filled with chronic illness, Effinger was a prolific novelist and short story writer, earning multiple Nebula and Hugo Award nominations. </div>

Irrational Numbers

<div>When aliens invade, a generations-long struggle begins against an impenetrable enemy in this sci-fi epic from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author. The Entities have arrived on Earth, fifteen feet tall with impenetrable defenses and inscrutable motives. As conquerors, they have no demands, no explanations, simply harsh consequences should they be challenged. Releasing a plague and plunging the world into a new Dark Age, the Entities seem unbeatable. But, one family at least&mdash;the Carmichael clan led by Colonel Anson Carmichael&mdash;will never give up the resistance. THE ALIEN YEARS is an epic story told over multiple generations by master of thoughtful science fiction Robert Silverberg. Can ideas of freedom survive in the face of an overwhelmingly powerful enemy? &ldquo;A remarkable study of human endurance and patience that belongs in most SF collections.&rdquo; &mdash;The Library Journal &ldquo;Sobering and frightening&hellip;. Silverberg&rsquo;s rich characters, his dead-on-target vision of modern society, his mastery at building tension&mdash;all are in evidence in this notable outing from one of the very best.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

The Alien Years

<div>A pilgrimage leads to a shocking revelation in this &ldquo;deeply affecting and evocative extraterrestrial novel&rdquo; from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author (Locus). The village of Jespodar nestles in the foothills of a world-dominating mountain known to all as &quot;The Wall.&quot; Poilar Crookleg has grown up in Jespodar training hard and hoping that he will be chosen for the annual Pilgrimage, a group journey to the top of the mountain from which no pilgrim has ever returned both alive and sane. The pilgrims seek to replicate the legendary journey of a distant ancestor who scaled the mountain and, so the story goes, met with the gods. The Pilgrimage is a a life journey, an overwhelming challenge and a sacred honor and Poilar feels blessed when he is finally chosen to lead it. But not all is as it first seems. Along the journey lie hazards of all kinds, both vilently dangerous and seductively beguiling and to triumph in the climb is to confront a revelation so surprising and so disturbing that none, not even the smartest and best prepared, are likely to survive. What belief and what devotion leads so many to hope for such a challenging task and what will be the ultimate result of such dedication? Only The Wall itself can reveal the destiny for those who undertake the Pilgrimage. </div>

Kingdoms of the Wall

<div>The Science Fiction Grand Master&rsquo;s Thorns &ldquo;holds up chillingly well after all these decades. A dark pastiche upon Beauty and the Beast&rdquo; (SF Reviews). In a world where humanity has colonized the solar system and begun to explore more of the local galaxy, a vast audience follows real-life stories presented by wealthy media mogul Duncan Chalk. To satisfy his audience&rsquo;s voyeuristic needs&mdash;and his own appetite for others&rsquo; pain&mdash;he pairs Minner Burris, an emotionally withdrawn space explorer who was captured and freakishly surgically altered by aliens, with Lona Kelvin, a suicidal seventeen-year-old girl who donated eggs for a fertility experiment that produced one hundred babies, none of whom she has been allowed to adopt or even see. Chalk promises to solve their personal problems in return for a joint performance tour. Though the love affair doesn&rsquo;t last, Chalk keeps the couple on the hook by making new offers. While Minner and Lona struggle to cope with their newfound celebrity and Chalk&rsquo;s broken promises, they will uncover the true nature of their manipulator&mdash;and risk everything to regain the humanity that has been stolen from them . . . An early exploration of media exploitation and a deep look at freak-show entertainment on a mass scale, this novel was one of the earliest of Silverberg&rsquo;s mature masterworks. &ldquo;Masterful . . . This is a sophisticated novel, beautifully written, intelligent and insightful, with wonderful dialogue and a satisfying conclusion.&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy Literature &ldquo;Silverberg&rsquo;s brooding, post-utopian, rumination has the makings of a great science fiction novel. . . . A worthwhile read which rambles along a dark path . . . Well done.&rdquo; &mdash;Science Fiction Ruminations </div>

Thorns

<div>This sprawling, episodic novel by the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author is a &ldquo;tour de force sci-fi outing . . . a wonderful read&rdquo; (Fantasy Literature). 2077. With Earth reeling from centuries of unregulated population growth and environmental decimation, a new religion has taken root. The Vorsters worship science and the material world over all else, searching for the promise of immortality through new technology and the promise of heaven among the physical stars. But on Venus, a renegade sect has found its home. The Harmonists find the answers to life&rsquo;s eternal questions in their own spirituality and in their own bodies, which have undergone genetic changes on Venus, giving them paranormal abilities. With humanity&rsquo;s future at stake, religion becomes a political business, and both groups will have to face their motivations and manipulations when a shocking discovery threatens the balance of power in the universe. &ldquo;The absorbing story of an overpopulated and economically depressed world clinging to the outcome of a religious schism for its salvation.&rdquo; &mdash;sff180 </div>

To Open the Sky

<div>From the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author: &ldquo;High adventure, considerable tension, and&mdash;most important&mdash;social consciousness&rdquo; (Harlan Ellison). Simeon Krug is the king of the universe. A self-made man, he is the Bill Gates of the era, having built a megacommercial empire on the backs of his products: androids, genetically engineered human slaves. Having amassed incredible wealth, his next major goal is to communicate with aliens living in an uninhabitable world, sending a mysterious signal. This requires building a mile high tower in the arctic tundra. The androids want civil equality with humans, but are divided on the best means to the goal&mdash;political agitation or religious devotion to Krug, their creator. And Krug&rsquo;s son, Manuel, is reluctant to step into his role as heir to his father&rsquo;s empire.</div>

Tower of Glass

<div>A New York Times Notable Book: A far-future coming-of-age tale from the SF Grand Master, &ldquo;one of the world&rsquo;s finest stylists and storytellers&rdquo; (San Antonio Express-News). &ldquo;What wonders and adventures he has to tell us,&rdquo; is how Ursula K. Le Guin characterized the work of Robert Silverberg, and in The Longest Way Home, he takes readers on another dazzling odyssey. Joseph, fifteen and separated from his family in the land known as Getfen, awakens to an attack on the Great House in which he is visiting. Narrowly escaping with his life but still pursued by enemies who wish to see him killed, Joseph must journey across a dark, unfamiliar world on his quest to return to his home of Helikis and his father. He has thousands of miles to travel and much to learn about this perilous alien world in transition&mdash;and about himself. &ldquo;What the greatly changed Joseph might find at the end of his journey, and how he might react, are questions that I came to care deeply about.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;The Longest Way Home recalls, in a lot of ways, the old-time frontier adventures, not the ones with the cowboys and the Indians, but the ones where people have to learn to survive in the wilderness or along the prairie. [Joseph&rsquo;s] adventures in survival are exciting, and the travels along this world are a pleasant escape.&rdquo; &mdash;SF Site &ldquo;This engaging, entertaining book is a fast read with many thoughtful themes.&rdquo; &mdash;School Library Journal </div>

The Longest Way Home

<div>The companion volume to the provocative Alien Sex anthology, Off Limits pushes boundaries with twenty stimulating tales of otherworldly encounters This second volume of the Alien Sex anthology series brings together authors Neil Gaiman, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany, Joyce Carol Oates, Elizabeth Hand, and many others to explore the mysteries of sex, alien and human alike. From an alien spy who falls in love with one of the earthlings he&rsquo;s monitoring, to a woman whose souvenir dream-catcher calls to her bedroom more than she bargained for, to a genetically engineered sex object aboard a space station, these thought-provoking tales of alien sex open up new worlds for fantastical exploration. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Ellen Datlow, including rare photos from the editor&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Off Limits

<div>A diplomat who successfully negotiated with intelligent aliens finds his loyalty to the human race tested in this novel by a Nebula Award&ndash;winning author. 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 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 maze . . . until a new alien race appears, seemingly intent on exterminating humanity. Only Muller can communicate with them, due to the very condition that has made him an outcast. But will Muller stick his neck out for the people who so callously rejected him?</div>

The Man in the Maze

<div>This trio of early short novels by Grand Master Robert Silverberg is straight-up pulp science fiction at its finest As a young man, Robert Silverberg was a science fiction prodigy, turning out top-flight stories in the blink of an eye. Though written quickly, Silverberg&rsquo;s early prose already showed evidence of the literary and imaginative qualities that would make him a giant in the field. Here are three of his best early works. In The Planet Killers, after Earth&rsquo;s supercomputer calculates that the inhabitants of the planet Lurion will destroy Earth in sixty-seven years, Roy Gardner is sent to stop them&mdash;by any means necessary. In The Plot Against Earth, Special Investigator Lloyd Catton&rsquo;s efforts to crack a ring of &ldquo;hypnojewel&rdquo; traffickers uncovers a galaxy-wide conspiracy. And in One of Our Asteroids Is Missing, when miner John Storm stakes claim to an asteroid with a king&rsquo;s ransom of rare minerals, he&rsquo;s set for life&mdash;or would be, if his discovery didn&rsquo;t also mark him for death.</div>

The Planet Killers

<div>The Hugo Award&ndash;winning author returns to the mythical world of Gilgamesh the King in this adventurous sequel: &ldquo;An enthralling quest.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times (London) The warrior-king Gilgamesh&mdash;part man, part god&mdash;is not only larger than life; he is larger than death. Trapped in the Afterworld, a bizarre reality in which everyone who has ever died lives again . . . only to die again and again in endless succession, Gilgamesh sets out to find his lost friend Enkidu and fight his way back to the land of the living. Along the way, he encounters a rogue&rsquo;s gallery of figures from history, literature, and myth&mdash;including H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard&mdash;and travels from the ancient city of Uruk to modern-day Manhattan. But the Afterworld is not so easily escaped.</div>

To the Land of the Living

<div>Three novels of adventure among the stars from the Science Fiction Grand Master and author of Across a Billion Years. In The Chalice of Death, Hallam Navarre is tasked by his alien master to seek out a fabled weapon on the homeworld of a once-mighty, but long-fallen, empire that is all but forgotten: a planet called Earth. In Starhaven, Johnny Mantell is a fugitive who finds sanctuary on an artificial world run by criminals, only to discover that every haven has its price. And in Shadow on the Stars, Baird Ewing travels to distant Earth on a desperate mission to save his colony from rapacious aliens, but becomes swept up in a bigger war&mdash;a war in time as well as space. As a young man, Robert Silverberg was a science fiction prodigy, turning out top-flight stories in the blink of an eye. Even in those early years, his prose showed evidence of the literary and imaginative qualities that would make him a giant in the field who would go on to win multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards&mdash;as this trio of space adventures attests.</div>

The Chalice of Death

<div>A tortured man&rsquo;s visions hold the key to mankind&rsquo;s future in Robert Silverberg&rsquo;s post-apocalyptic masterpiece Life in the blasted wasteland of 2103 California is nasty, brutish, and short. If the savage &ldquo;scratchers&rdquo; don&rsquo;t kill you, the poisoned environment will. But one man wanders this desolate landscape and sees beauty: glorious visions of impossible places and majestic beings not of Earth. Scorned and mocked as a madman, Tom doubts his sanity until his visions mysteriously begin to spread to others and a returning star probe offers evidence that they are real. Now, as a new religion is born, with Tom as its reluctant messiah, violent forces are unleashed&mdash;forces that have the power to transform humanity . . . or destroy it.</div>

Tom O'Bedlam

<div>Space opera at its best&mdash;wild and fast and furious, as only Robert Silverberg could write it As a young man, Robert Silverberg was a science fiction prodigy, turning out top-flight stories in the blink of an eye. Though written quickly, Silverberg&rsquo;s early prose already showed evidence of the literary and imaginative qualities that would make him a giant in the field. In &ldquo;Slaves of the Star Giants,&rdquo; electrician Lloyd Harkins finds himself transported from 1956 into a desolate far-future Earth ruled by monstrous aliens. And in the gripping title story, a spacer named Barsac risks his life and sanity to free a friend from the clutches of an evil cult&mdash;by joining the cult himself. Filled with slam-bang action and dazzling speculation, these seven novellas pay eloquent homage to the Golden Age of science fiction and anticipate the groundbreaking work that has become Silverberg&rsquo;s legacy.</div>

Hunt the Space-Witch!

<div>This far-future sci-fi saga by a multiple Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning Grand Master chronicles the perilous rebirth of humanity on a destroyed Earth. Robert Silverberg&rsquo;s critically acclaimed masterworks have earned him entry into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a place among the genre&rsquo;s greatest legacies. This classic, two-book saga gazes into a world many millennia from now and spins a mesmerizing tale of survival, evolution, and the ultimate future of humanity. At Winter&rsquo;s End: For the past 700,000 years, the remaining inhabitants of planet Earth have survived underground, escaping the endless rain of &ldquo;death stars&rdquo; that destroyed their civilization&mdash;and the world. Now, with the surface finally inhabitable after countless millennia, one tribe&rsquo;s leader is guiding her people to freedom. But unexpected threats and dark revelations could endanger their long-awaited rebirth. The Queen of Springtime: Hidden below ground for millennia, the People have finally emerged to repopulate the Earth and reclaim their legacy as the dominant species. But the cold, insectile hjjk, who remained on Earth&rsquo;s surface throughout the frozen eons, will not give up the world they inherited without a fight. The New Springtime series is Robert Silverberg at his very best, showcasing the intelligence, ingenuity, humanism, and extraordinary talents that have won him four Hugo Awards, six Nebulas, and a host of other honors.</div>

The New Springtime

<div>How far will four friends go for immortality? This novel is Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author &ldquo;Robert Silverberg at his very best&rdquo; (George R. R. Martin). After Eli, a scholarly college student, finds and translates an ancient manuscript called The Book of Skulls, he and his friends embark on a cross-country trip to Arizona in search of a legendary monastery where they hope to find the secret of immortality. On the journey with Eli, there&rsquo;s Timothy, an upper-class WASP with a trust fund and a solid sense of entitlement; Ned, a cynical poet and alienated gay man; and Oliver, a Kansas farm boy who escaped his rural origins and now wants to escape death. If they can find the House of Skulls where immortal monks allegedly reside, they&rsquo;ll undergo a rigorous initiation. But do those eight grinning skulls mean the joke will be on them? For a sacrifice will be required. Two must die so that two may live forever . . . Stretching the boundary between science fiction and horror, Robert Silverberg masterfully probes deeper existential questions of morality, brotherhood, and self-determined destiny in what Harlan Ellison refers to as &ldquo;one of my favorite nightmare novels.&rdquo; This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

The Book of Skulls

<div>This &ldquo;toothy follow-up to Datlow&rsquo;s first-rate Blood Is Not Enough&rdquo; offers &ldquo;admirably inventive variations on vampirism&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a &ldquo;consistently engrossing anthology&rdquo; from award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Publishers Weekly). Continuing to expand the boundaries of the concept of vampirism&mdash;as she did in her first collection, Blood Is Not Enough&mdash;Datlow has assembled eighteen fascinating stories that range from tales of literal vampires to what she calls &ldquo;metaphorical bloodsuckers,&rdquo; who can drain another&rsquo;s life force without ever sinking their teeth into necks. In &ldquo;Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep&rdquo; by Suzy McKee Charnas, an elderly Jewish woman who&rsquo;s taken her own life has second thoughts and makes a deal to become a vampire to stay immortal, the only condition being she has to drink blood by request only. An amnesiac operative tries to sort out if a secret government agency is trying to help him regain his memory or is wiping it clean in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro&rsquo;s Kafkaesque &ldquo;Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?&rdquo; And in Jonathan Carroll&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Moose Church,&rdquo; a tourist in Sardinia is literally scarred by asking questions of death in his dreams . . . A Whisper of Blood includes contributions by Suzy McKee Charnas, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Silverberg, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Massie, Barry N. Malzberg, Rick Wilber, Jonathan Carroll, Thomas Ligotti, Melissa Mia Hall, David J. Schow, Jack Womack, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Thomas Tessier, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, K. W. Jeter, Pat Cadigan, and Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth. </div>

A Whisper of Blood

<div>A &ldquo;dark, restrained, and powerful&rdquo; mirror of current politics from the Science Fiction Grand Master (Science Fiction Ruminations). In the barren landscape of the late Cambrian period, a penal colony sits high above the ocean on the east coast of what would become the United States. The men&mdash;political prisoners&mdash;have been sent from the twenty-first century on a one-way ticket to a lifetime of exile. Their lonely existence has taken its toll . . . Jim Barrett was once the physically imposing leader of an underground movement dedicated to toppling America&rsquo;s totalitarian government. Now he is nothing but a crippled old man, the camp&rsquo;s de facto ruler due to his seniority. His mind is still sharp, having yet to succumb to the psychosis that claims more and more men each day. So when a new prisoner is transported to the colony&mdash;a startlingly young and suspiciously apolitical man&mdash;Barrett&rsquo;s instincts go on high alert. As Barrett reminisces about his revolutionary past, he uncovers the new prisoner&rsquo;s secrets&mdash;and faces a shocking revelation that thrusts him into a future he never dreamed possible . . . &ldquo;One of the finest writers ever to work in science fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;The Philadelphia Inquirer </div>

Hawksbill Station

<div>&ldquo;A ribald, Byzantine tale of time-tourism&rdquo; from the multiple Nebula and Hugo Award&ndash;winning author (Tor.com). It&rsquo;s 2059, and former law clerk Jud Elliott finds himself at loose ends&mdash;until a chance meeting with a Time Courier gives him the inspiration to become one himself. The job&mdash;as a time-traveling guide&mdash;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 against paradoxes and preserve the sanctity of &ldquo;now-time.&rdquo; Jud isn&rsquo;t used to following the rules&mdash;especially when faced with temptation. All it takes is one tiny slip here, one misplaced step there, and Jud could destroy his own timeline and cease to exist in the blink of an eye . . . a practicality that&rsquo;s hard for Jud to grasp when he crosses paths with an eleventh-century Byzantium beauty he can&rsquo;t resist. &ldquo;A hugely ambitious, enormously fun, sly, paradox-peppered piece that chronicles the time-tourist trade and all its perils&mdash;specializing in Byzantine history.&rdquo; &mdash;Strange Horizons &ldquo;This novel is a comedy, and it is funny, but it is one of those black comedies where things go wrong, and then the more the protagonist tries to fix things, the more wrong they become, until the ending is at one and the same time an O. Henry punchline and a deep existential truth, neat as a pin and just as sharp.&rdquo; &mdash;Kim Stanley Robinson </div>

Up the Line

<div>A collection of twenty classic stories from the Science Fiction Grand Master who &ldquo;seems capable of amazements beyond those of mere mortals&rdquo; (The Washington Post Book World). Needle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best&mdash;intelligent, inventive, and visionary. This collection showcases his talent for thought-provoking science fiction, ranging in themes from time travel to space travel, the media to mortality. In the titular story&mdash;now a feature film by Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley&mdash;a jealous ex-husband warps time in a vindictive attempt to destroy his former wife&rsquo;s new marriage. Thirty-one identical sons have a shocking surprise for their mother in &ldquo;There Was an Old Woman.&rdquo; The prophetic &ldquo;The Pain Peddlers&rdquo; depicts reality TV in a way that allows viewers to revel in a voyeuristic, adrenaline-fueled rush. Also included are Silverberg&rsquo;s Hugo Award&ndash;winning &ldquo;Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another,&rdquo; and the Locus Award winner &ldquo;The Secret Sharer,&rdquo; a Joseph Conrad&ndash;inspired tale of a ship captain drawn into a strange alliance with a stowaway. The New York Times Book Review hailed Silverberg as &ldquo;the John Updike of science fiction.&rdquo; The stories in Needle in a Timestack unite us in our humanity, in the face of science, technology, and our own changing culture. </div>

Needle in a Timestack

<div>&ldquo;Vividly realized and inventive . . . A brooding masterpiece of social science fiction&rdquo; from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author (Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations). After eight years away from the planet known as Holman&rsquo;s World, Edmund Gunderson has returned. Before, as the assistant station manager, he helped the Company exploit the bustling colonial outpost for Earth&rsquo;s gain&mdash;mining its riches and putting its native species to work. Now, the planet has been given back to its inhabitants: the intelligent, elephant-like beings known as the nildoror, who peacefully coexist with carnivorous bipeds known as the sulidoror. And Edmund Gunderson has come back to relive his past and meet up with old acquaintances. Or so he says . . . What Gunderson really wants is to witness the rebirth of the nildoror, a sacred ceremony performed in the northern mist country. Given permission from the elders, he travels deeper into the exotic world than he has ever gone before, through tropical jungles teeming with alien creatures. It is a journey that will take Gunderson deep within himself, where his own failings and fears reside, and bring him face to face with the planet&rsquo;s greatest mysteries&mdash;and the evil within men&rsquo;s souls . . . &ldquo;Brilliantly imagined . . . One of the finest writers ever to work in science fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;The Philadelphia Inquirer on Tom O&rsquo;Bedlam &ldquo;Like all truly superior sci-fi, Downward to the Earth is the sort of novel that just bursts with some imaginative idea or unexpected touch on every single page. It is a terrific feat of the imagination, wonderfully well written by Silverberg, and with fascinating characters, both alien and human.&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy Literature</div>

Downward to the Earth

<div>The Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author delivers a prescient tale that &ldquo;explores the inanity of conformity with a hopelessly superficial future humankind&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly, starred review). He was revived, somehow, and thrust into a brand-new world, one in which humans have evolved to breathe underwater, reproduction is quite uncommon, and everyone has standardized their appearance to conform to the presently favored model. He is a rarity, a throwback, with his short legs, hairy body, lopsided face, and scars. He remembers automobiles, tax returns, a family&mdash;all the components of an imperfect world. But here and now, he is an object of fascination to be studied by doctors and politicians, and to be wanted by adventurous women. He keeps telling himself that in a country of the beautiful, the ugly man is king. If only he&rsquo;d listen . . . Praise for Robert Silverberg and his short stories &ldquo;When Silverberg is at the top of his form, no one is better.&rdquo; &mdash;George R. R. Martin, #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author &ldquo;Silverberg&rsquo;s creative story premises are matched by a remarkable ability to make his characters sympathetic, whether human or not.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) &ldquo;The short stories in Robert Silverberg&rsquo;s First-Person Singularities are inventive, sublime, and endlessly entertaining.&rdquo; &mdash;Foreword Reviews &ldquo;Decades after being originally published, most of these stories are still just as entertaining and powerful as they were when first released. A singularly unique collection.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Caliban

<div>Guilt is in the eye of the beholder in this futuristic crime story from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of Lord Valentine&rsquo;s Castle. A lot of women were wearing Marianne&rsquo;s face that season, which made it hard for Loren Frazier to forget that he killed his world-famous wife&rsquo;s lover. The world wouldn&rsquo;t forget it either; the image of his murderous impulse was caught forever in his victim&rsquo;s brain&mdash;an eyeflash picture readily recovered by law enforcement. But a man of Frazier&rsquo;s money and power has options: aliases, overseas accounts, the ability to change his appearance. Heartbreak and regret are his constant companions through the continents and the years&mdash;until he can truly see what he has become . . . Praise for Robert Silverberg and his short stories &ldquo;When Silverberg is at the top of his form, no one is better.&rdquo; &mdash;George R. R. Martin, #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author &ldquo;Silverberg&rsquo;s creative story premises are matched by a remarkable ability to make his characters sympathetic, whether human or not.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) &ldquo;The short stories in Robert Silverberg&rsquo;s First-Person Singularities are inventive, sublime, and endlessly entertaining.&rdquo; &mdash;Foreword Reviews &ldquo;Decades after being originally published, most of these stories are still just as entertaining and powerful as they were when first released. A singularly unique collection.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews </div>

The Dead Man's Eyes

<div>An unsuspecting newlywed finds himself the subject of alien scientific study in this humorous tale from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author. After an evening out to dinner, one sultry midsummer eve, Charlie finds himself in the right place at the wrong time: lying underneath an oak tree after making love with his new wife. But while Maria drifts off into dreamland, Charlie finds himself being watched by a one-eyed alien in the branches above. No leering voyeur is this alien; it&rsquo;s here on research purposes only and has been lucky to observe human copulation. Now it has a favor to ask of Charlie: a personal demonstration. To make the situation more palatable, it transforms into one of Charlie&rsquo;s beautiful ex-girlfriends. To keep the alien&rsquo;s eye from wandering to his sleeping wife, Charlie will have to make the ultimate sacrifice . . . </div>

Hot Night, Alien in Tree

<div>An alien race makes a chilling first impression in this story that &ldquo;evokes difficult moral issues&rdquo; from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author (SF Site). A corporate ship&rsquo;s complicated business venture involves the experimental use of new technology to scoop a sample from the core of a neutron star. The discovery of a dead civilization on a nearby solar system serves as a fascinating distraction. The same can&rsquo;t be said for the alien spaceship circling around them. Becoming the first expedition from Earth to encounter extraterrestrial life is not on the agenda&mdash;and the crewmembers find themselves out of their depth. Treading a fine line between diplomacy and danger, the chief executive officer of the mission&mdash;a man of Sioux ancestry&mdash;decides to open up lines of communication with the aliens. And though they may be more advanced than humanity, the aliens&rsquo; account of past actions calls to mind a dark age in human history, one that the CEO will make sure is never repeated. Not on his watch . . . &ldquo;With this story, Silverberg proves he knows his science and is willing to do a story grounded in hard sf.&rdquo; &mdash;MarzAat Praise for Robert Silverberg and his short stories &ldquo;When Silverberg is at the top of his form, no one is better.&rdquo; &mdash;George R. R. Martin, #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author &ldquo;Silverberg&rsquo;s creative story premises are matched by a remarkable ability to make his characters sympathetic, whether human or not.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) &ldquo;Decades after being originally published, most of these stories are still just as entertaining and powerful as they were when first released. A singularly unique collection.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews </div>

The Iron Star

<div>A lonely dolphin narrates this touching tale of interspecies love from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of Needle in a Timestack. Meet Ishmael. He&rsquo;s a bottle-nosed dolphin employed at a seawater recovery station on St. Croix. He&rsquo;s the foreman of the Intake Maintenance Squad, which means he and his team clear the intake valves of obstructions like starfish or algae. He works hard for his wages of fish and is highly educated. He&rsquo;s also in love&mdash;with a human. Lisabeth Calkins is a twenty-seven-year-old specialist in human-cetacean relations. Though immune to the charms of her human anatomy, Ishmael believes he has found his soulmate. She gave him his name, when he was only a number among many others. Sure, there are obstacles to their being together, just like in every other epic romance. Ishmael can see a way forward&mdash;through human interference, through biology, and even acts of sabotage. But can Lisabeth? &ldquo;Time and again, Silverberg sets the bar high for himself and then clears it, as in a tale told from the perspective of an English-speaking dolphin who has developed feelings for a human woman.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for Robert Silverberg and his short stories &ldquo;When Silverberg is at the top of his form, no one is better.&rdquo; &mdash;George R. R. Martin, #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author &ldquo;The short stories in Robert Silverberg&rsquo;s First-Person Singularities are inventive, sublime, and endlessly entertaining.&rdquo; &mdash;Foreword Reviews &ldquo;Decades after being originally published, most of these stories are still just as entertaining and powerful as they were when first released. A singularly unique collection.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews </div>

Ishmael in Love

<div>The double worlds of a disillusioned anthropologist collide in the Hugo&ndash;nominated story from the Science Fiction Grand Master. The world of 2083 has become a source of professional and personal frustration for superstar anthropologist Tom Schwartz. On a lecture tour, he flies across the globe in first class seats, but everywhere he travels to looks like the last place he&rsquo;s been. Argentina, Papua, France, Mexico&mdash;there&rsquo;s too much sameness wherever he goes. Western culture has homogenized the world. Even the people look alike. But in his mind is where the magic happens. There, he&rsquo;s on a starship gliding through the interstellar depths. His fellow passengers are natives of the worlds of Capella, Arcturus, Antares, and Polaris. There are sinuous humanoids, self-contained reptilians, and even whale-like creatures who dance alongside of the ship and beckon him to join them. As Schwartz finds himself increasingly torn in two, he has a choice to make: accept the world as it is or join in the cosmic harmony of the dance . . . Praise for Robert Silverberg and his short stories &ldquo;Where Silverberg goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow!&rdquo; &mdash;Isaac Asimov &ldquo;When Silverberg is at the top of his form, no one is better.&rdquo; &mdash;George R. R. Martin, #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author &ldquo;Decades after being originally published, most of these stories are still just as entertaining and powerful as they were when first released. A singularly unique collection.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews </div>

Schwartz Between the Galaxies

<div>For some people, one personality is just never enough. A story of duplicity from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of Lord Valentine&rsquo;s Castle. Slowly, a climate of acceptance has been growing for people with divided personalities, especially in big cities like San Francisco. There are clubs with mirrors and lights that help people to switch and double, maybe even triple. When, like Cleo, you feel your world has become stale and cramped, they&rsquo;re the perfect place to meet someone. But first Cleo has to pretend that she&rsquo;s a multiple, because they&rsquo;re notoriously indifferent to singletons and their bland, overly simple selves. When she meets Van, she&rsquo;s able to pull off her masquerade for a week of bliss with him (and Paul, and Hal, and . . .). Or so she thinks. When Cleo is caught in her lie, she attempts to bow out gracefully. But Van doesn&rsquo;t want to lose her. In fact, he wants more of her. There could be a whole horde of selves inside of her&mdash;and he knows just how to get them out . . . &ldquo;In the thoughtful and emotionally evocative title story, &lsquo;Multiples,&rsquo; multiple personality &lsquo;disorder&rsquo; is normal, and indeed a desired state, creating an effective metaphor for the loneliness experienced by socially isolated individuals.&rdquo; &mdash;SF Site Praise for Robert Silverberg and his short stories &ldquo;When Silverberg is at the top of his form, no one is better.&rdquo; &mdash;George R. R. Martin, #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author &ldquo;Decades after being originally published, most of these stories are still just as entertaining and powerful as they were when first released. A singularly unique collection.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews </div>

Multiples

<div>In this epic, &ldquo;[a] brilliant concept of the imagination,&rdquo; an amnesiac wanderer rediscovers his destiny as ruler of a vast planet (Chicago Sun-Times). Valentine, a drifter who remembers nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city. Joining a motley troupe of jugglers and acrobats, he travels with them across the magical planet of Majipoor. All the while, he hopes to meet someone who can help him retrieve his past. Then Valentine begins to dream&mdash;and to receive messages in those dreams. Messages that tell him he is a lord, a king turned out of his castle. Now his travels have a purpose: to return to his home, discover what enemy took his memory, and claim the destiny that awaits him. &ldquo;An imaginative fusion of action, sorcery, and science fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;Absorbing . . . a wildly imaginative universe.&rdquo; &mdash;People</div>

Lord Valentine's Castle

<div>In the sequel to Lord Valentine&rsquo;s Castle, the history of Majipoor is revealed through thrilling tales of rulers, warriors, murderers, and thieves. &ldquo;If you like tales with an Arabian Nights piquancy, this book belongs in your hands.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Book World Lord Valentine has claimed the title of Coronal, ruling over the gigantic planet of Majipoor. Yet he still remembers Hissune, the boy who aided him in his time of wandering, and gives him a post in the House of Records. In a catalogue of ancient reports, Hissune discovers the Register of Souls, a repository of millions of memories of long-dead explorers, pioneers, warriors, even Coronals and Pontifexes. He begins to immerse himself into their lives&mdash;and finds himself experiencing first-hand the vast history of Majipoor . . . &ldquo;Majipoor is probably the finest creation of Silverberg&rsquo;s powerful imagination and certainly one of the most fully realized worlds of modern science fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

Majipoor Chronicles

<div>In the third novel of this acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy series, the ruler of a vast planet faces a threat of war&mdash;and conspiracy within his own court. Plagued by nightmares of blizzards and earthquakes besieging the planet Majipoor, Lord Valentine believes these dreams signal the coming of war between his people and the Shapeshifters, who once ruled the planet. For centuries they have conspired to regain their stolen world, and recently they were discovered impersonating members of the kingdom&rsquo;s inner circle. Since coming to power, Valentine has made peaceful overtures to the Shapeshifters. This has led select members of the royal court to question his loyalties. Now some even want to remove Valentine from his governing role&mdash;casting him into the higher, ceremonial office of Pontifex. But if Valentine accepts the mantle of Pontifex and surrenders his position to his successor-in-waiting, he may be remembered as a leader who evaded his duties&mdash;and shattered the peace that has reigned for eight thousand years. . . . &ldquo;[Valentine Pontifex is] a dance of conflicting emotions and political intrigue. Both the world and Lord Valentine have matured, and the trilogy becomes whole in a way that the form rarely achieves.&rdquo; &mdash;The Village Voice &ldquo;There&rsquo;s an almost hypnotic grandeur to the thoughtful way Silverberg weaves the strands of the story together, effortlessly jugging the various motifs.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Valentine Pontifex

<div>An absorbing trilogy that introduces new characters&mdash;and conflicts&mdash;from the vast world of Majipoor: &ldquo;Brilliant.&rdquo; &mdash;Chicago Sun-Times On the planet Majipoor, it is a time of great change. Coronal Lord Confalume is preparing to make his transition to the higher, ceremonial role of Pontifex. It is no secret that the next Coronal will be Prince Prestimion. By law and custom, Confalume&rsquo;s son, Korsibar, cannot be his successor. But Korsibar has been given a prophecy that will plunge the planet into a fearsome conflagration: &ldquo;You will shake the world!&rdquo; Plotting with his twin sister and their ambitious companions, Korsibar intends to seize the throne by force. But the burdens of the crown and scepter exact more of a price than Korsibar is prepared to pay. Especially when Prestimion, his rival, fights back to take his appointed place . . . &ldquo;Plotted like a Shakespearian play. . . . With a brand-new cast of characters and engaging conflicts of heart and soul, Silverberg&mdash;one of the world&rsquo;s finest stylists and storytellers&mdash;breathes fresh life (and quality) into sci-fi&rsquo;s sister genre.&rdquo; &mdash;San Antonio Express-News</div>

Sorcerers of Majipoor

<div>As a devastating war is forgotten, an all-consuming madness takes its place in this epic sci-fi fantasy series from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author. Destined to rule over Majipoor, Prince Prestimion was shocked to see a charismatic rival usurp his throne. Only after a bloody conflict consumed the entire planet did he emerge victorious. Now, after finally attaining the Starburst Crown, Prestimion orders a spell of oblivion to erase the horrors of war from the memory of all but a select few . . . With peace restored, Prestimion seeks a just punishment for his wartime enemy, Dantirya Sambail. But how can this be achieved when his treachery is forgotten? Before Prestimion can solve this riddle, Sambail escapes. And as Prestimion&rsquo;s search extends across Majipoor, he discovers a strange madness overtaking his people . . . &ldquo;An enchanting travelogue filled with a sense of wonder.&rdquo; &mdash;Locus &ldquo;A tour de force of imagination, a marvel of inventive detail.&rdquo; &mdash;SFSite.com</div>

Lord Prestimion

<div>In the final novel of The Prestimion Trilogy, the succession of Majipoor&rsquo;s ruler is threatened by a plague of the mind. Since gaining the Starburst Crown, Coronal Lord Prestimion has faced unfathomable challenges as ruler of Majipoor. But now peace has finally been restored to the planet, and it is time for Prestimion to name his successor and descend to the Labyrinth as Pontifex. Though the capable Prince Dekkeret is chosen to become the next Coronal, the transition is imperiled when a dark force reemerges from the past . . . Coronal Prestimion defeated his enemy Dantirya Sambail years ago, but the ignoble jackals who followed him are scheming to reclaim his lost lands and power. At their head is the tyrant&rsquo;s former henchman Mandralisca, who has unleashed a torrent of dark visions upon Prestimion&rsquo;s subjects. Otherworldly nightmares invade the sleep of those loyal to the Lords and the Lady of Majipoor, driving them to commit horrible, destructive acts. And the dark wave is flowing ever-closer to the throne atop Castle Mount . . . and into the sacrosanct depths of the Imperial Labyrinth itself. &ldquo;Robert Silverberg is the Marco Polo of Majipoor. What wonders and adventures he has to tell us, what treasures he brings back from every voyage to that fabulous world.&rdquo; &mdash;Ursula K. Le Guin &ldquo;In The King of Dreams Robert Silverberg takes us once more into the wonder of Majipoor and proves again that he is a master.&rdquo; &mdash;Robert Jordan</div>

King of Dreams

<div>The first three novels in the acclaimed sci-fi fantasy series from the award-winning author: &ldquo;An imaginative fusion of action, sorcery, and science fiction&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). In the first three books of the Majipoor Cycle, Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Robert Silverberg delivered a vast and vividly imagined world full of epic adventure, court intrigue, and high drama. In Lord Valentine&rsquo;s Castle, an amnesiac wanderer receives dreams of his true destiny as ruler of the planet Majipoor. In Majipoor Chronicles, the planet&rsquo;s bloodthirsty history is revealed through tales of rulers and thieves. And in the final novel, Valentine Pontifex, Valentine faces the threat of civil war as well as conspiracy within his court.</div>

The Majipoor Cycle

<div>The epic sci-fi fantasy Majipoor Cycle continues with the saga of Lord Prestimion, whose rise to power is beset by war and madness. Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Robert Silverberg returns to the richly imagined world of Majipoor. Collected here in one volume is the complete Prestimion Trilogy, set hundreds of years before the events of the first three novels. In Sorcerers of Majipoor, a peaceful transfer of power is threatened by a cunning rival to the throne. In Lord Prestimion, peace returns to Majipoor, but at a terrible price. And in King of Dreams, Prestimion prepares to ascend to the role of Pontifax as a plague of nightmares spreads across the planet.</div>

The Prestimion Trilogy

<div>A genre-bending collection of speculative fiction from the acclaimed author of the Steampunk Trilogy&mdash;with an introduction by Robert Silverberg. Horror, alternative history, science fiction, and fantasy&mdash;nothing is off limits when you possess an imagination as vast as Paul Di Filippo&rsquo;s. In this collection of stories featuring ancient goddesses, the new social media elite, and hermetic cities, he&rsquo;ll take you on a wild ride through plausible pasts and far-flung futures. In &ldquo;Ghostless,&rdquo; a medium learns that ghosts are drawn to&mdash;and can alleviate&mdash;sadness, so she becomes a matchmaker to both spirts and mortals in need. Flash fiction published in Nature magazine, &ldquo;Wavehitcher&rdquo; shows how surfing goes high-tech&mdash;and long-distance&mdash;with smartsuits that desalinate water, pulsed magnets to repel sharks, and seines that catch and processes krill into a nutritious paste. An expert in industrial metabolics focuses on blending his superior genepool with that of his fianc&eacute;e&rsquo;s to save the human race from idiocracy, until a kidnapping in Colombia shows him the folly of his arrogance in &ldquo;Adventures in Cognitive Homogamy.&rdquo; These stories will whet your appetite for more fantastical Di Filippo, and thankfully, Lost Among the Stars delivers. Praise for Paul Di Filippo &ldquo;Di Filippo is like gourmet potato chips to me. I can never eat just one of his stories.&rdquo; &mdash;Harlan Ellison &ldquo;Di Filippo is the spin doctor of SF&mdash;and it is a powerful medicine he brews.&rdquo; &mdash;Brian Aldiss, Hugo Award&ndash;winning author of Hothouse &ldquo;Vibrant, nervy, and full of gloriously wiggy language, Ribofunk is anything but the same old stuff.&rdquo; &mdash;The Philadelphia Inquirer </div>

Lost Among the Stars

<div>A robot controls a family&rsquo;s diet with disturbing exactitude in this 1958 novella by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author&mdash;with a new forward.Celebrated author Robert Silverberg was twenty-two years old when he wrote The Iron Chancellor, his second contribution to the pioneering science fiction magazine Galexy. It tells the story of a man who purchases a robot to help himself and his family lose weight. The scheme goes awry as the robot assumes totalitarian control over the household. This early work demonstrates Silverberg&rsquo;s prodigious talent as well as his influences, such as Henry Kuttner&rsquo;s Gallegher stories and Robert Sheckley&rsquo;s AAA Ace Series. Fans of Silverberg&rsquo;s renowned novels, such as Sailing to Byzantium and Gilgamesh in the Outback, will enjoy this early work by the SFWA Grand Master.</div>

The Iron Chancellor

<div>Welcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2381 with a world population of over seventy-five billion souls, the massive Urbmon system is humanity's salvation. Life in Urbmon 116 is highly regulated, life is cherished, and the culture of procreation is seen as the highest pinnacle of god's plan. Conflict is abhorred, and any who disturb the peace face harsh punishment—even being sent "down the chute" to be recycled as fertilizer. Jason Quevedo, a historian, searches records of the twentieth century hoping to find the root of his discontent with the perfection of Urbmon life. Siegmund Kluver, a young and ambitious administrator, strives to reach the top levels of the Urbmon's government and discovers the civilization's dark truths. Michael Statler, a computer engineer, harbors a forbidden desire. He dreams of leaving the building—of walking in the open air and visiting the far-off sea. This is a dream he must keep secret. If anyone were to find out, he'd face the worst punishment imaginable. The World Inside is a fascinating exploration of society and what makes us human, told by a master of speculative fiction. The World Inside is a 1971 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novella. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

The World Inside

<div>Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg gathered eleven of the finest writers in Fantasy to contribute to this collection of short novels. Each of the writers was asked to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series: from Stephen King's opening piece set in his popular Gunslinger universe to Robert Jordan's early look at his famed Wheel of Time saga, these stories are exceptionally well written and universally well told. Features short stories set in the worlds of... ...Stephen King's The Dark Tower ...Terry Pratchett's Discworld ...Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth ...Orson Scott Card's Tales of Alvin Maker ...Robert Silverberg's Majipoor ...Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea ...Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn ...George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire ...Anne McCaffrey's Pern ...Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga ...Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

Legends

<div> With a new introduction by author Robert Silverberg, and the first-ever map of Borthan, this Nebula Award-winning classic sci-fi novel A Time of Changes, out of print since 1992, will delight fans of dystopian fiction In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began as colonies, but now feel like home, each with its own long history of a thousand years or more, and each with its own unique culture. One of the strangest is on Borthan, where the founding settlers established the Covenant, which teaches that the self is to be despised, and forbids anyone to reveal his innermost thoughts or feelings to another. On Borthan, the filthiest obscenities imaginable are the words "I" and "me." For the heinous crime of "self-baring," apostates have always paid with exile or death, but after his eyes are opened by a visitor from Earth, Kinnall Darival, prince of Salla, risks everything to teach his people the real meaning of being human. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

A Time of Changes

<div>Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg asked the masters of modern fantasy to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series: Stephen King tells a tale of Roland, the Gunslinger, in the world of The Dark Tower, in "The Little Sisters of Eluria." Robert Silverberg returns to Majipoor and to Lord Valentine's adventure in an ancient tomb, in "The Seventh Shrine." Orson Scott Card spins a yarn of Alvin and his apprentice from the Tales of Alvin Maker, in "Grinning Man." Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga is the setting of the tale of "The Wood Boy." And look for Legends 2 (featuring Terry Goodkind, George R.R. Martin, and Anne McCaffrey) and Legends 3 (featuring Robert Jordan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tad Williams, Terry Pratchett)! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

Legends 1

<div>The Great Anthology of Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy Terry Goodkind tells of the origin of the Border between the lands in the world of The Sword of Truth, in "Debt of Bones." George R. R. Martin sets his piece a generation before his epic, A Song of Ice and Fire, in the adventure of "The Hedge Knight." Anne McCaffrey, the poet of Pern, returns once again to her world of romance and adventure in "Runner of Pern." And look for Legends 1 (featuring Stephen King, Robert Silverberg, Orson Scott Card, Raymond E. Feist) and Legends 3 (featuring Robert Jordan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tad Williams, Terry Pratchett) at your local bookstore! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

Legends 2

<div>Legends-Volume 3 is a great anthology of short fiction by the masters of modern fantasy, edited by Robert Silverberg. Each author has contributed an original story based on his or her bestselling series. Robert Jordan relates crucial events in the years leading up to The Wheel of Time in "New Spring." Ursula K. Le Guin adds a sequel to her famous books of Earthsea, portraying a woman who wants to learn magic, in "Dragonfly." Tad Williams tells a dark and enthralling story of a haunted castle in the age before Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, in "The Burning Man." Terry Pratchett relates an amusing incident in Discworld, of a magical contest and the witch Granny Weatherwax, in "The Sea and Little Fishes." And look for Legends 1 (featuring Stephen King, Robert Silverberg, Orson Scott Card, Raymond E. Feist) and Legends 2 (featuring Terry Goodkind, George R.R. Martin, and Anne McCaffrey)! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

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