Robert Silverberg

En Borthan, un planeta colonizado cientos de años atrás, la humanidad vive en paz, sin embargo el precio pagado parece demasiado elevado: nada es considerado más obsceno que el compartir los propios sentimientos con otro humano, y se ha prohibido el uso de la palabra "yo". Kinnall Darival es un hombre que lo tiene todo en la vida para ser feliz. Solo una cosa le perturba: las convenciones sociales le impiden expresar sus sentimientos a la persona amada. Cuando conoce a Scxhweiz, un comerciante de la Tierra, este le ofrece una sustancia magica capaz de derribar los muros entre las almas de los hombres. El sistema de valores de Darival se trastoca y experimenta cada vez mas dudas que le conduciran a ser un proscrito entre los suyos y a provocar el dolor entre aquellos a los que ama. Robert Silverberg es el autor que mas nominaciones ha obtenido para los premios Hugo y Nebula, uno de ellos por Tiempo de cambios, y es unos de los grandes maestros de la ciencia ficcion mundial.

En Borthan, un planeta colonizado cientos de años atrás, la humanidad vive en paz, sin embargo el precio pagado parece demasiado elevado: nada es considerado más obsceno que el compartir los propios sentimientos con otro humano, y se ha prohibido el uso de la palabra "yo". Kinnall Darival es un hombre que lo tiene todo en la vida para ser feliz. Solo una cosa le perturba: las convenciones sociales le impiden expresar sus sentimientos a la persona amada. Cuando conoce a Scxhweiz, un comerciante de la Tierra, este le ofrece una sustancia magica capaz de derribar los muros entre las almas de los hombres. El sistema de valores de Darival se trastoca y experimenta cada vez mas dudas que le conduciran a ser un proscrito entre los suyos y a provocar el dolor entre aquellos a los que ama.

Durante su frustrado intento de contacto con los habitantes de Beta Hydri IV, el diplomático Muller quedó marcado con un estigma que provoca que ninguno de sus congéneres humanos tolere su presencia. Aislado, muerto en vida, decide exiliarse a Lemnos, un planeta conocido por los horrores, reales e imaginarios, que alberga su laberinto, construido tiempo atras por una antigua raza inteligente.Ahora la Tierra tiembla bajo la amenaza de un nuevo peligro extraterrestre, y solo Muller puede salvar a los humanos. Se envia unaexpedicion en su busca al mortal laberinto de Lemnos con la mision de traerlo de vuelta. ¿Aceptara el diplomatico arriesgar su vida por una raza que ya lo repudio una vez?

A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didnt commit in the long-lost crime novel of Robert Silverberg, SFF Writers of America Grand Master, available for the first time in over 60 years.HAD L.A.S HOTTEST BANDLEADER BECOME AN INSTRUMENT OF DEATH? Before his extraordinary career as a grandmaster of science fiction, Robert Silverberg honed his craft as a writer for a variety of pulp magazines, including crime digests with titles like Trapped and Guilty Detective Story Magazine. He also wrote this long-lost novel, which appeared under the pen name "Stan Vincent" in 1960 - and has never been published since. Meet Bob McKay: once a rising star in the toniest nightclubs of Los Angeles, now a down-and-out denizen of tawdry bars where B-girls hustle drinks and brawls break out nightly. When one hustler winds up strangled, McKay lands on Death Row. Can a starlet and a sympathetic newspaper columnist clear his name before his date with the death chamber?Featuring a new introduction by the author and three bonus stories from Guilty and Trapped, THE HOT BEAT offers readers a trip through time back to the pulp era, when a future star was making his bones with stories of murder, betrayal, and dangerous desires...

Before Robert Silverberg won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards and became Grand Master of science fiction, he was a young man learning the art and craft of writing the genre. In Science Fiction: 101, Silverberg reveals the roots of modern science fiction with thought-provoking essays about some of the fields most groundbreaking storiesincluded in this volumewhich inspired him and taught him to write. These insightful analyses, along with the skills and strategies Silverberg developed to build his successful career, make this an indispensable volume for readers interested in science fiction history.

SET A FAKE TO CATCH A FAKE... Somewhere in Philadelphia, a master engraver is turning out brilliant forgeries of U.S. currency plates for an organized crime. To bring the operation down from the inside, the government sends an agent undercover posing as a West Coast crime lords right-hand man. Its a dangerous game of impersonation - one that could prove fatal when the agents secret begins to unravel... Unavailable for half a century ad never before published in book form, BLOOD ON THE MINK features a new afterword by the author discussing the novels origins in the pages of one of the last surviving pulp magazines - plus two of Silverbergs short stories from the pulps, also appearing for the first time in more than 50 years.

Travelling at speeds close to that of light, spacemen lived at an accelerated pace. When one of the twin boys left the starship, he grew older while his twin in space barely aged. So the starship twin left the ship to find what happened to his brother who was aging away on earth.

Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve. If they could live long enough!

Here are two early stories by the well known SF Author Robert Silverberg. The Happy Unfortunate was published first in Amazing Stories in 1957 and explores the angst caused when the human race reaches into space but at the cost of needing to breed a new species; specialized spacers who can withstand the tremendous rigors of acceleration. The Hunted Heroes was published in Amazing stories a year earlier, in 1956. It is a futuristic story that holds great hope for the resilience of the human race after the war destroys most of the world.

By the 23rd century Earths population had reached seven billion. Mankind was in danger of perishing for lack of elbow room - unless prompt measures were taken. Roy Walton had the power to enforce those measures. But though his job was in the service of humanity, he soon found himself the most hated man in the world.