

A Time of Changes
Author: Robert Silverberg
Narrator: Pete Bradbury
Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 06/02/2017
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopian
Author: Robert Silverberg
Narrator: Pete Bradbury
Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 06/02/2017
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopian
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.
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
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
Splendid book......more
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
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