To Open The Sky

-Religión, ciencia y política se mezclan.- Género. Ciencia ficción. Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Las puertas del cielo (publicación original: To Open the Sky, 1967) nos acerca a la religión de los vosters, una que adora a la Radiación Inmanente y que pasa de ser algo minoritario a controlar la política......more

It shouldn't come as too great a surprise that future Grand Master Robert Silverberg dedicated 1967's "To Open the Sky" to writer/editor Frederik Pohl. It was Pohl, after all, who induced Silverberg to begin writing sci-fi again on a full-time basis, after the author's "retirement" from the field in......more

To Open the Sky is a fix-up novel which was published as a sequence of five novelettes in Galaxy magazine (edited by Frederik Pohl, to whom Silverberg dedicated the book) between June of 1965 and June of 1966. The stories marked something of a return to the science fiction field by Silverberg, who h......more

Silverberg is my favorite science-fiction writer (and I’ve read a lot of SF) but let’s be honest here: for all the fascinating ideas that it contains, “To open the skies” lacks direction. Of course, it’s Silverberg, so it is extremely readable, and not in the sense “YA book readable”, but in the sen......more

Although this book doesn't transcend its era in its treatment of non-white and female characters, it's also not bogged down by it (in that they're mostly absent rather than mostly ridiculous), and it constantly surprised me with incisive observations of people-at-large. I'm a sucker for religious sc......more