Robert Silverberg

Born

in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

January 15, 1935

Website

http://www.majipoor.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction’s most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth and Lord Valentine’s Castle, as well as At Winter’s End, also available in a Bison Books edition. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. Silverberg is one of twenty-nine writers to have received that distinction.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 143,322 ratings · 8,182 reviews · 1,172 distinct works · Similar authors

	Lord Valentine's Castle (Lord Valentine, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 6,915 ratings — published 1980 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legends by Robert Silverberg (Editor/Contributor), Stephen King (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Robert Jordan (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 6,128 ratings — published 1998 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume 1 by Robert Silverberg (Editor), Isaac Asimov (Contributor), Lester del Rey (Contributor) 4.34 avg rating — 3,857 ratings — published 1970 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dying Inside 3.87 avg rating — 4,265 ratings — published 1972 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legends II by Robert Silverberg (Editor/Contributor), Terry Brooks (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 2,989 ratings — published 2003 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Majipoor Chronicles (Lord Valentine, #2) 3.77 avg rating — 2,557 ratings — published 1982 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Time of Changes 3.71 avg rating — 2,272 ratings — published 1971 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Valentine Pontifex (Lord Valentine, #3) 3.74 avg rating — 2,247 ratings — published 1983 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Skulls 3.68 avg rating — 2,200 ratings — published 1971 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legends 3 (Legends 1, Volume 3of3) by Robert Silverberg (Editor), Robert Jordan (Contributor), Ursula K. Le Guin (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 1,318 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Robert Silverberg

Legends (2 books)
by Robert Silverberg (Editor/Contributor), Terry Brooks (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), George R.R. Martin (Contributor), Anne McCaffrey (Contributor), Elizabeth Haydon (Contributor), Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) , more…
3.88 avg rating — 13,773 ratings

Majipoor (8 books)
by Robert Silverberg
3.79 avg rating — 13,219 ratings

Lord Valentine (3 books)
by Robert Silverberg
3.82 avg rating — 11,718 ratings

Science Fiction Megapack (10 books)
by Robert Silverberg, Arthur C. Clarke, Lawrence Watt-Evans (Goodreads Author), Mike Resnick, Marion Zimmer Bradley
3.68 avg rating — 2,259 ratings

Fugues dans le temps (2 books)
by Robert Silverberg
3.69 avg rating — 1,420 ratings

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Quotes by Robert Silverberg

“Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.”
― Robert Silverberg

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“Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature and the insecure and the ignorant. We who see through such institutions should be content to live together without legal coercion.”
― Robert Silverberg

tags: marriage

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“It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.”
― Robert Silverberg, Dying Inside

tags: decay, dying

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Polls

JULY SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books move on to the run-off poll for July SF Book of the Month.

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

8 votes 25.0%

Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg

7 votes 21.9%

Triplanetary A Tale of Cosmic Adventure by E.E. "Doc" Smith

6 votes 18.8%

Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis

4 votes 12.5%

The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

4 votes 12.5%

Mainspring by Jay Lake

2 votes 6.3%

The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss

1 vote 3.1%

32 total votes

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