A Time of Changes

Name: A Time of Changes
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert Silverberg
ISBN: 9781501973642

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

Synopsis

As Kinnall Darival writes "I" in his journal, he knows this pronoun is forbidden by his people of Manneran because it is too personal. But through the use of a powerful, mind-altering drug, he has learned to understand what people are really feeling and to speak for himself. Now he is compelled to share his message of liberation, regardless of the risk. This science fiction classic is a cult favorite from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author.

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