

The Silent Invaders
Author: Robert Silverberg
Narrator: Thomas Pipkin
Unabridged: 4 hr
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Skyboat Media
Published: 05/08/2018
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Robert Silverberg
Narrator: Thomas Pipkin
Unabridged: 4 hr
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Skyboat Media
Published: 05/08/2018
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Robert Silverberg is the winner of many Hugo and Nebula awards for his novels and short fiction. His work began appearing during the 1950s; he has received high acclaim for, among many others, such novels as Lord Valentine’s Castle (the first in the Majipoor series), Tower of Glass, Dying Inside, and Nightwings.
Perhaps the most entertaining aspect of the 1977 Ace paperback edition I read of this novel was Silverberg's introduction. He describes how when shopping a paperback rack in Alamagordo, New Mexico, he happened upon a 1973 Ace printing of the same novel and honestly did not remember writing it. Once......more
What a weird little book. Well, no, it's pretty much exactly what one would expect of run-of-the-mill late-60s/early-70s SF, earlyish Silverberg. I picked this up in a stack of $1 paperbacks and enjoyed it until I got to the end with 50ish pages left and discovered a short story after. "Oh...is that......more
This was serialized and presented weekly by the StarShip Sofa Podcast. The narration was well done by Thomas Pipkin. The Silent Invaders was an interesting short science fiction story by a young Robert Silverberg published in 1963. In the book two groups of disguised-as-human alien races threaten,......more
"You can stand there and tell me that I'm falling in love with a lot of fake female flesh lathered over a scrawny and repulsive Medlin body? Hah!" Two vaguely humanoid alien races--the Darruui and the Medlin-- send undercover operatives disguised as humans to Earth to persuade us to enter a galactic......more
“The Philip Roth of the science fiction world…Some of the most ambitious and artistically sophisticated novels and stories in the field’s history.” Washington Post, praise for the author