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The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg #3
Beyond the Safe Zone
Contents:
1. {Now + n, Now - n}
2. A Sea of Faces
3. Breckenridge and the Continuum
4. Caliban
5. Capricorn Games
6. Caught in the Organ Draft
7. Entropy's Jaws
8. Getting Across
9. Good News from the Vatican
10. In the Group
11. In the House of Double Minds
12. Ishmael in Love
13. Many Mansions
14. Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine
15. Push No More
16. Schwartz between the Galaxies
17. Ship-Sister, Star-Sister
18. Some Notes on the Pre-Dynastic Epoch
19. The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV
20. The Feast of St. Dionysus
21. The Mutant Season
22. The Wind and the Rain
23. This Is the Road
24. Trips
25. What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper
26. When We Went to See the End of the World
1. {Now + n, Now - n}
2. A Sea of Faces
3. Breckenridge and the Continuum
4. Caliban
5. Capricorn Games
6. Caught in the Organ Draft
7. Entropy's Jaws
8. Getting Across
9. Good News from the Vatican
10. In the Group
11. In the House of Double Minds
12. Ishmael in Love
13. Many Mansions
14. Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine
15. Push No More
16. Schwartz between the Galaxies
17. Ship-Sister, Star-Sister
18. Some Notes on the Pre-Dynastic Epoch
19. The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV
20. The Feast of St. Dionysus
21. The Mutant Season
22. The Wind and the Rain
23. This Is the Road
24. Trips
25. What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper
26. When We Went to See the End of the World
565 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 1987
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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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September 26, 2017
Robert Silverberg benim listemde ilk beş yazar arasında olan, Ray Bradbury kalibresinde ve tadında gördüğüm bir yazar. Daha önce bir çok romanını okumuş ama öykülerine başlamamıştım. Yıllardır kütüphanemde bekleyen bu kitapla başladım Silverberg öykülerini okumaya.
Bu çok güzel bir seçki, çünkü her öyküden önce o öykü ve yazıldığı dönem vs. hakkında yazarın kısa bir notu var. O notlar sayesinde başka bir sürü yazar, öykü, antoloji öğreniyorsunuz. Öyküler genelde 1970-1972 yıllarında yazılmış.
Öykülere gelince... Aslında Silverberg'in eleştirilecek yanları da az değil. Öncelikle, yazarın dönüp dolaşıp tekrar ele aldığı bir iki tema var. Şaheser romanlar olan Dying Inside'daki "zihin okuma / telepati gücünü kaybeden adam" ve Book of Skulls'daki "çöldeki gizli tarikat" temalarını çok fazla tekrar etmiş Silverberg, sürekli bu temalara dönüp yeni birşeyler daha yapmış. Öyküler ya da olaylar tekrar etmiyor ama temaların çok tekrar etmesi biraz sıkıcı olabiliyor.
Tüm seçki boyunca beni sürekli düşündüren detaysa, Silverberg'in öykülerinde cinsellik / sex kavramlarını ne kadar çok kullandığıydı. Doğrusunu söylemek gerekirse eserlerinde cinselliğin C'si bulunmayan diğer tüm bilimkurgu yazarlarına göre, Silverberg öyküleri ve kahramanları daha gerçek ve daha yetişkin işi. Hatta daha açık konuşmak gerekirse, bilimkurgu edebiyatının çocukça görülmesinde diğer çoğu yazarın dikkatle yarattıkları bu aseksüel dünyaların da etkisi olduğunu düşünüyorum artık.
Son olarak, bana hoş gelen bir detay: Robert Silverberg'in öykülerinde İstanbul ismi sadece isim olarak da olsa sıkça geçiyor. Bir öyküde kahramanların kısa bir Ayasofya ziyareti de var.
Tek sıkıntım, şimdi bu öykü serisinin tamamını bulup edinmek zorunda oluşum. :)
Bu çok güzel bir seçki, çünkü her öyküden önce o öykü ve yazıldığı dönem vs. hakkında yazarın kısa bir notu var. O notlar sayesinde başka bir sürü yazar, öykü, antoloji öğreniyorsunuz. Öyküler genelde 1970-1972 yıllarında yazılmış.
Öykülere gelince... Aslında Silverberg'in eleştirilecek yanları da az değil. Öncelikle, yazarın dönüp dolaşıp tekrar ele aldığı bir iki tema var. Şaheser romanlar olan Dying Inside'daki "zihin okuma / telepati gücünü kaybeden adam" ve Book of Skulls'daki "çöldeki gizli tarikat" temalarını çok fazla tekrar etmiş Silverberg, sürekli bu temalara dönüp yeni birşeyler daha yapmış. Öyküler ya da olaylar tekrar etmiyor ama temaların çok tekrar etmesi biraz sıkıcı olabiliyor.
Tüm seçki boyunca beni sürekli düşündüren detaysa, Silverberg'in öykülerinde cinsellik / sex kavramlarını ne kadar çok kullandığıydı. Doğrusunu söylemek gerekirse eserlerinde cinselliğin C'si bulunmayan diğer tüm bilimkurgu yazarlarına göre, Silverberg öyküleri ve kahramanları daha gerçek ve daha yetişkin işi. Hatta daha açık konuşmak gerekirse, bilimkurgu edebiyatının çocukça görülmesinde diğer çoğu yazarın dikkatle yarattıkları bu aseksüel dünyaların da etkisi olduğunu düşünüyorum artık.
Son olarak, bana hoş gelen bir detay: Robert Silverberg'in öykülerinde İstanbul ismi sadece isim olarak da olsa sıkça geçiyor. Bir öyküde kahramanların kısa bir Ayasofya ziyareti de var.
Tek sıkıntım, şimdi bu öykü serisinin tamamını bulup edinmek zorunda oluşum. :)
November 29, 2009
Silverberg is consistently one of the best short story writers in the Science Fiction field. Short stories are the perfect format for Science Fiction because it allows the author to take one speculative idea and fully develop it without getting distracted by other concerns. Novels have lots of ground to cover, but short stories have to be laser focused and that degree of discipline is a great help to speculative fiction.
May 23, 2025
A fat, fairly even collection of Silverberg's new wave stuff, all involving the future in some way. Occasionally his societies of the future have managed to retain new age ideas and customs that didn't actually survive many years beyond the Summer of Love. Who knows... what goes around comes around. The whole free love/hippie thing is kind of charming but does tend to date some of the material.
September 23, 2018
got a little over halfway through..
October 10, 2024
Got a copy of this secondhand, read it so much it's falling apart. My favorite is Getting Across. There's so much weird shit (affectionate) in here.
May 9, 2023
Capricorn Games (1974)
The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV (1974)
Ishmael in Love (1970)
Trips (1974)
Schwartz between the Galaxies (1974)
Many Mansions (1973)
Good News from the Vatican (1971)
In the Group (1973)
The Feast of St. Dionysus (1973)
Caught in the Organ Draft (1972)
{Now + n, Now - n} (1972)
Caliban (1972)
Getting Across (1973)
Breckenridge and the Continuum (1973)
In the House of Double Minds (1974)
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame (1973)
The Wind and the Rain (1973)
A Sea of Faces (1974)
What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper (1972)
Ship-Sister, Star-Sister (1973)
When We Went to See the End of the World (1972)
Push No More (1972)
Some Notes on the Pre-Dynastic Epoch (1973)
Entropy's Jaws (1971)
Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine (1973)
The Mutant Season (1973)
This Is the Road (1973)
The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV (1974)
Ishmael in Love (1970)
Trips (1974)
Schwartz between the Galaxies (1974)
Many Mansions (1973)
Good News from the Vatican (1971)
In the Group (1973)
The Feast of St. Dionysus (1973)
Caught in the Organ Draft (1972)
{Now + n, Now - n} (1972)
Caliban (1972)
Getting Across (1973)
Breckenridge and the Continuum (1973)
In the House of Double Minds (1974)
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame (1973)
The Wind and the Rain (1973)
A Sea of Faces (1974)
What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper (1972)
Ship-Sister, Star-Sister (1973)
When We Went to See the End of the World (1972)
Push No More (1972)
Some Notes on the Pre-Dynastic Epoch (1973)
Entropy's Jaws (1971)
Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine (1973)
The Mutant Season (1973)
This Is the Road (1973)
October 2, 2011
Reading through this massive collection of short stories is almost a daunting task. With more than 500 pages and print that would never be called large, it took me a ridiculously long time to complete. Usually, I would go through and make a comment about each of the stories, but there were much too many for that. Also, frankly, I don't remember a darn thing about the first few of them. Actually, scanning through the table of contents, I don't remember anything about most of them. I can say that I was not bored reading this book, it was just interminably long. I would say you might need to be in the right mood to tackle this. I've sort of OD'd on science fiction short stories lately. Maybe it's time for something different. (My apologies for making this review more about me than about the book.)
November 18, 2007
A short story collection, mostly good, tho a few were a bit too New-Wavish for my tastes. I like his work while I'm reading it, but it doesn't tend to stick in my mind as clearly as some other authors, for some reason. Worth a library read, or as a used book (my source)
September 18, 2013
Some short, some not so short stories. Some interesting and thought provoking, others not so much. Love the writing style, short direct forceful sentences. But kinda long for a short-story collection, though.
abandoned
February 21, 2009The ratio of interesting to pointless, annoying, and profane got a little too low to be worth it.
November 7, 2013
A great collection of some lovely stories, with very nice introductions by Silverberg himself. Not everything is on the same level, but overall a really, really enjoyable collection.
books-with-go-references
June 2, 2010Contains the short story "Ship-Sister, Star-Sister", which has numerous references to Go. That story was later expanded into the novel Starborne.
September 4, 2016
excellent collection of short sf stories
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