The Silent Invaders, Robert Silverberg
The Silent Invaders, Robert Silverberg
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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


Synopsis

StarShipSofa: The Audio Science Fiction Magazine is one of the top SF podcasts in the multiverse that delves into the world of SF, and where host Tony C. Smith focuses on a particular SF author, publisher or SF topic and digs deep to uncover all aspects of that writer or topic—simply put … it’s the show that will give you a little more than a Wiki page.Abner Harris came to Earth on a mission of extreme urgency. A subject of the Spirit had no right to question his orders. And his orders said that the universe was in danger of enslavement by the pebble-skinned Medlins. And that the fight against their evil scheming called for him to assume the guise of a flesh-and-blood Earthman.But once in that new synthetic body, he made a mind-bending discovery: the real villains of space were neither the Medlins nor the people of Earth, but his own kind!Suddenly he was alone, alienated from his own race, hated by the Medlins, and an impostor on Earth. No matter which side he chooses, he’ll be a traitor, but choose he must—or forever remain a man without a planet!

About Robert Silverberg

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 GlassDying Inside, and Nightwings.


Reviews

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

Goodreads review by Adam

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

Goodreads review by Jeff

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

Goodreads review by Craig

"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


Quotes

“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