Category Archives: Robert Silverberg

Reading Clubs and Robert Silverberg’s “Sailing to Byzantium”

Posted on Friday 29 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve never belonged to any kind of reading club, or ‘book club’ in the sense of a group of people meeting every couple weeks to discuss a book they’ve all read. (A recent example in pop culture is the movie … Continue reading →

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Silverberg, DYING INSIDE (1972)

Posted on Sunday 31 May 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

This is Silverberg’s most highly-regarded novel, and one of his most unusual. It was published in 1972, near the end of a period during which Silverberg wrote one or two critically acclaimed novels a year, from roughly 1967 to 1976. … Continue reading →

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More Standard SF Furniture: Robert Silverberg’s The 13th Immortal

Posted on Saturday 16 May 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

As I said in my previous post, I suspended reading for some weeks once the coronavirus lockdown began, in mid-March; things were too unsettled and uncertain to allow for the indulgence of sitting down and turning inward into a book. … Continue reading →

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Robert Silverberg: REVOLT ON ALPHA C (1955)

Posted on Friday 8 November 2019 by Mark R. Kelly

Robert Silverberg’s first novel was published in hardcover by Thomas Y. Crowell in 1955 and then went through many printings as a thin paperback edition from Scholastic Books; see http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2796 for a list of all editions, and cover images. I … Continue reading →

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Silverberg: All Sadnesses Flow to the Sea

Posted on Wednesday 11 October 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

The planet cleanses itself. That is the important thing to remember, at moments when we become too pleased with ourselves. The healing process is a natural and inevitable one. The action of the wind and the rain, the ebbing and … Continue reading →

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