A Time of Changes, Robert Silverberg
A Time of Changes, Robert Silverberg
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A Time of Changes

Author: Robert Silverberg

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2005

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Set in the distant future, when human beings populate a variety of planets, A Time of Changes examines the society of Borthan. For thousands of years, Borthan has been ruled by a covenant that teaches that the individual self is to be despised. The sharing of personal thoughts and feelings with another represents the most heinous crime. Kinnall Darival, an exiled prince of the country of Salla, has always outwardly observed this covenant. But inwardly, he commits a grave offense when he falls in love with his bondsister, Halum. By law, he cannot reveal his affections, nor act on them. But when an Earthman reveals to him a miraculous drug that enables two persons to completely bare their souls to each other, Kinnall begins a covert revolution.

About Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction's most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth, and Lord Valentine's Castle. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. Silverberg is one of twenty-nine writers to have received that distinction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 09, 2017

This is a surprisingly different read. At the very first, I thought it was going to be an alien-Odyssey, a SF treatment of the greek legend, with just a hint of something truly interesting, culturally, in that the entire race, or nearly the entire race, is devoted to self-abnegation. Imagine, then, i......more

Goodreads review by Apatt on February 07, 2016

Robert Silverberg is a legend, one of the all-time greats, and among these all-time greats he is probably the most underrated. He has Hugo and Nebula Awards up the wazoo but is relatively unknown compared to the giants of the genre like Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein, IMHO he belongs up there with the......more

Goodreads review by Andrei(Drusca) on May 20, 2024

Splendid book......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on September 20, 2015

This is one of Silverberg’s best novels from his most prolific and creative period in the late 1960s/early 1970s, along with Downward to the Earth and Dying Inside. It’s about a repressive human society on a distant planet called Borthan, in which the terms “I” and “myself” are obscenities, and “sel......more

Goodreads review by Amy H. on March 18, 2015

This 1971 novel won the Nebula Award and was nominated for the Hugo, but I have to confess I found it to be quite underwhelming. Robert Silverberg offers a first-person memoir of a future human (descended from Earthlings) on a far distant planet. In his society words like "I" and "me" are considered......more

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