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Pluto in the Morning Light
(1992)(The first book in the Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg series)
A collection of stories by Robert Silverberg
Publisher's Weekly
The first in a series of volumes of Silverberg's ( The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party ) Hugo and Nebula Award-winning stories among others, this collection serves as a gallery in which old and new fans may fall under the master's spell. Whether he has set his tale on the cold, unforgiving surface of Pluto or within a Los Angeles enslaved by aliens, Silverberg is unparalleled in dramatizing the human heart. The average marriage pales next to the intense passion achieved by a pair of loving telepaths separated by thousands of miles. A professional con man who sells bum pardons to prisoners in alien work camps finds himself bewitched by the eyes of the judge who must pass sentence on his crimes--a judge who, years earlier, was conned by him. And in the 35th century, when only one person in a million grows old, a devoted android searches the world for his aging, humiliated lover. Such stories resonate; however, when Silverberg becomes preoccupied with merely clever ideas, such as an ancient extraterrestrial computer bent on taking over the world, he's lost in space. But these very few failures are nothing more than fanciful what-ifs from an author whose work continues to expand the boundaries of the science fiction genre.
Library Journal
The first volume in an attempt to collect the short fiction of one of sf's virtuosos consists of 24 titles, among them, ''Sailing to Byzantium,'' ''House of Bones,'' and ''Hannibal's Elephants.''
BookList - Roland Green
This massive volume contains 24 of Silverberg's short stories from the 1980s. They range from heavy-duty award-winners, such as "Sailing to Byzantium," to pieces of fluff like "Hardware," and cover all the weight classes in between. For smaller collections, their range affords a valuable introduction to Silverberg's skill and versatility, and while larger collections may already have many of the major pieces in other anthologies, they should consider this volume, anyway. Silverberg's introductions, one per story, are affable and literate, and they provide valuable information about the tales' origins, the creative process (useful stuff for aspiring, even established, writers), and his own life during the 1980s. The best single-author collection so far this year.
Genre: Science Fiction
The first in a series of volumes of Silverberg's ( The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party ) Hugo and Nebula Award-winning stories among others, this collection serves as a gallery in which old and new fans may fall under the master's spell. Whether he has set his tale on the cold, unforgiving surface of Pluto or within a Los Angeles enslaved by aliens, Silverberg is unparalleled in dramatizing the human heart. The average marriage pales next to the intense passion achieved by a pair of loving telepaths separated by thousands of miles. A professional con man who sells bum pardons to prisoners in alien work camps finds himself bewitched by the eyes of the judge who must pass sentence on his crimes--a judge who, years earlier, was conned by him. And in the 35th century, when only one person in a million grows old, a devoted android searches the world for his aging, humiliated lover. Such stories resonate; however, when Silverberg becomes preoccupied with merely clever ideas, such as an ancient extraterrestrial computer bent on taking over the world, he's lost in space. But these very few failures are nothing more than fanciful what-ifs from an author whose work continues to expand the boundaries of the science fiction genre.
Library Journal
The first volume in an attempt to collect the short fiction of one of sf's virtuosos consists of 24 titles, among them, ''Sailing to Byzantium,'' ''House of Bones,'' and ''Hannibal's Elephants.''
BookList - Roland Green
This massive volume contains 24 of Silverberg's short stories from the 1980s. They range from heavy-duty award-winners, such as "Sailing to Byzantium," to pieces of fluff like "Hardware," and cover all the weight classes in between. For smaller collections, their range affords a valuable introduction to Silverberg's skill and versatility, and while larger collections may already have many of the major pieces in other anthologies, they should consider this volume, anyway. Silverberg's introductions, one per story, are affable and literate, and they provide valuable information about the tales' origins, the creative process (useful stuff for aspiring, even established, writers), and his own life during the 1980s. The best single-author collection so far this year.
Genre: Science Fiction
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