Cronos

by Robert Silverberg

Letters to Time travel has allowed Roy¹s consciousness to enter the mind of the heir to Atlantis¹s throne, and what he found disturbed him. How could such an advanced city exist at this time? The rest of the world was, as Roy¹s partner, Lora, discovered in her travels, a dark, barbaric land still thawing from the ice age. Roy knew the island¹s fate?according to legend, it would vanish into the sea. But if Roy was in an Atlantis unlike anything the researchers had predicted, then what were its secrets? And when would it be destroyed? PROJECT The nature of time mechanics requires that the two travelers¹ masses be precisely matched; for that reason, the first time travelers must be a pair of identical twins. For paleontologist Sean Gabrielson, the chance to journey back to the age of dinosaurs was worth any risk. For his physicist brother, Eric, the chance to see ninety-five million years in the future was equally irresistible. What neither planned on, however, was how the inhabitants of those times would react to their presence. . . . THE TIME In the 25th century, the only escape from suffocation in a totally controlled environment is to "hop" backward through time. However, since time-hopping rearranges the past on which the structure of current existence is based, it must be stopped?but not too quickly. For the history of the 1970s includes the arrival of hoppers who have not yet left the 2490s?and whose departure

Genres: Time Travel, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction

400 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2001

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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.