Needle in a timestack: and other stories

✍ Scribed by Robert Silverberg

• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A collection of twenty classic stories from the Science Fiction Grand Master who "seems capable of amazements beyond those of mere mortals" (The Washington Post Book World). Needle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best-intelligent, inventive, and visionary. This collection showcases his talent for thought-provoking science fiction, ranging in themes from time travel to space travel, the media to mortality. In the titular story-under development as a feature film by Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley-a jealous ex-husband warps time in a vindictive attempt to destroy his former wife's new marriage. Thirty-one identical sons have a shocking surprise for their mother in "There Was an Old Woman." The prophetic "The Pain Peddlers" depicts reality TV in a way that allows viewers to revel in a voyeuristic, adrenaline-fueled rush. Also included are Silverberg's Hugo Award-winning "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another," and the Locus Award winner "The Secret Sharer," a Joseph Conrad-inspired tale of a ship captain drawn into a strange alliance with a stowaway. The New York Times Book Review hailed Silverberg as "the John Updike of science fiction." The stories in Needle in a Timestack unite us in our humanity, in the face of science, technology, and our own changing culture.;Intro; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; Needle in a Timestack; There Was an Old Woman; The Pain Peddlers; The Sixth Palace; In Entropy's Jaws; Absolutely Inflexible; This Is the Road; The Pope of the Chimps; The Dead Man's Eyes; The Road to Nightfall; Multiples; Many Mansions; (Now+n, Now-n); Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another; The Reality Trip; Chip Runner; Call Me Titan; Defenders of the Frontier; Ishmael in Love; The Secret Sharer; A Biography of Robert Silverberg; Copyright

✦ Table of Contents

Intro
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Needle in a Timestack
There Was an Old Woman
The Pain Peddlers
The Sixth Palace
In Entropy's Jaws
Absolutely Inflexible
This Is the Road
The Pope of the Chimps
The Dead Man's Eyes
The Road to Nightfall
Multiples
Many Mansions
(Now+n, Now-n)
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another
The Reality Trip
Chip Runner
Call Me Titan
Defenders of the Frontier
Ishmael in Love
The Secret Sharer
A Biography of Robert Silverberg
Copyright

✦ Subjects

FICTION -- General