Needle in a timestack: and other stories

✍ Scribed by Robert Silverberg

• Book ID: 100659965
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 612 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1504058666

✦ 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

✦ Subjects

FICTION -- General