Robert Silverberg Boeken

Op een avond in het klassieke Rome, nu Roema geheten, verricht de oude wachter Wuellig zijn avondwake. Geholpen door zijn electronische sesnsors speurt zijn geest rond tussen de sterren... en ontdekt daar de komst van de lang voorspelde invasievloot die een oud onrecht komt wreken. In één ontzettende, nachtelijke catastrofe overweldigen de bezetters de gehele aarde. Wuelligs taak is afgelopen. Hij gaat op pelgrimstocht, eerst om kennis te vergaren, dan om te worden verjongd. Hij heeft een lange, wonderlijke, soms gevaarlijke weg te gaan... Een sublieme sf-roman.

Uit een groot aantal van Silverbergs eigen bundelingen van zijn betere werk heeft Meulenhoff 13 van de sprekendste verhalen geselecteerd. Wat aan de afzonderlijke verhalen al te zien was, blijkt uit deze dubbel geraffineerde keuze nu zulke verhalen schrijft alleen Robert Silverberg.

Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen the Stars. Then, one by one your suns start to set, gradually leading you into Darkness for the first time ever. Image the terror of such a Nightfall. Scientists on the planet Kalgash discover that an eclipse - an event that occurs only every 2049 years - is imminent, and that a society unfamiliar with Darkness will be plunged into madness and chaos. They realize that their civilization will end, for the people of Kalgash have a proven fear of Darkness, but they are unable to predict the insanity and destruction that will accompany the awesome splendor of Nightfall.

Valentine, a wanderer who knows nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city, and joins a troupe of jugglers and acrobats; gradually, he remembers that he is the Coronal Valentine, executive ruler of the vast world of Majipoor, and all its peoples, human and otherwise... Valentine's journey is a long one, a tour through a series of magnificent environments. Fields of predatory plants give way to impossibly wide rivers, chalk-cliffed islands and unforgiving deserts. The prose is unrelentingly dreamlike—no accident given that on Majipoor, dreams rule the minds of great and humble alike. Originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in four parts: November 1979, December 1979, January 1980 and February 1980.

Set in an Afterworld - where everyone who has ever lived reawakens when they die to live again and die again, seemingly for ever - this novel tells of the warrior-king Gilgamesh's journey in search of a gateway to the land of the living. Based on the author's novella "Gilgamesh in the Outback".

This is British paperback edition of this collection of stories, first published by Scribners in 1973. Stories Caught in the Organ Draft (1972); {Now + n, Now - n} (1972); Some Notes on the Pre-Dynastic Epoch (1973); In the Group (1973); Caliban (1971); Many Mansions (1973); Good News from the Vatican (1971); Push No More (1972); The Mutant Season (1973); When We Went to See the End of the World (1972); What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper (1972); In Entropy's Jaws (1971); The Wind and the Rain (1973).

The narrative offers a unique perspective on the War of the Worlds through the eyes of various celebrity eyewitnesses worldwide. These accounts provide a blend of personal experiences and dramatic interpretations of the Martian invasion, capturing the chaos and fear that ensued. The book combines elements of science fiction with real-world celebrity culture, creating an engaging retelling of H.G. Wells' classic tale while exploring themes of fame, perception, and the human response to extraterrestrial threats.