Needle in a Timestack, Robert Silverberg
Needle in a Timestack, Robert Silverberg
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Needle in a Timestack
And Other Stories

Author: Robert Silverberg

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 24 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/24/2019


Synopsis

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—under development as 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.

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 Sandy

Having read some two dozen novels by Robert Silverberg over the past couple of years, I recently decided that it was high time for me to see what the Grand Master has accomplished in the area of the shorter form. As if by serendipity, while shopping the other day at the Brooklyn sci-fi bookstore ext......more

Goodreads review by Tom

Needle in a Timestack (Robert Silverberg) - 5 Stars The Pain Peddlers (1963) - 5 Stars Passport to Sirius (1958) - 3.5 Stars Birds of a Feather (1958) - 5 Stars There Was an Old Woman (1958) - 4 Stars The Shadow of Wings (1963) - 3 Stars Absolutely Inflexible (1966) - 3.5 Stars His Brother's Weeper (......more

Goodreads review by Tom LA

Excellent and entertaining as always. Some short stories from the late 50s. I already knew a couple of them.......more

Goodreads review by DJ

3/5 Rating Review coming 9/17 and will posted first at MyLifeMyBooksMyEscape as part of the Time Traveler's Almanac group read. Follow along with #TimeTravelThursday......more