Robert Silverberg has become my favorite old school SF writer and I have read 6 books during his most prolific period of 1967-1976, beginning with A Time of Changes, Downward to the Earth, Tower of Glass, To Open the Sky, The Man in the Maze, and Nightwings....
Book Review 135: The Man in The Maze by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Jun 14, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Robert Silverberg 1967-1976
"Science Fiction, more than any other form of literature, is a progress, and it comes with a sell-by date. Some old SF can become unreadable. Some reputations erode with time. What we respond to, once the sell-by date is past, is art and, perhaps, is also truth."...
Book Review 114: To Open The Sky by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017 Book Reviews, Robert Silverberg 1967-1976
Can human beings live forever? Of course, we all know the answer to that question. One death per person. However, science fiction has tackled the immortality theme throughout its history as a genre and Robert Silverberg addresses it in several of his books during...
Book Review 77: Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Feb 1, 2016 | 2016 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Robert Silverberg 1967-1976
You would think that religious themes in science fiction could not mix together. However, there is a long history of science fiction (and fantasy) writers that have included religious themes in their work. Gene Wolfe did with his Solar Cycle Series (Book of The New...