Description

Published 1967: First Sphere Books Edition / Softcover / Very Good Condition

Original pictorial stiff card covers. 190 clean slightly age-toned pages, mild speckled endpapers and edges. Slight shelf wear on covers and slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. (RB486)

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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 – now 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. [Google Books]

Robert Silverberg is a prolific American science fiction author and editor. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF since 2004. [Wikipedia]