Secret Sharers (The Collected Stories, Volume 1)

Twenty-four stories are included in this ambitious collection of Silverberg's work, each with an introduction by the author recollecting the time and place in which they were conceived. Winner of five Nebula Awards and four Hugos, Silverberg is one of the undisputed masters of science fiction.

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Contents:

1. A Sleep and a Forgetting

2. Against Babylon

3. Amanda and the Alien

4. Basileus

5. Chip Runner

6. Dancers in the Time-Flux

7. Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another [Time Gate]

8. Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory

9. Hannibal's Elephants

10. Hardware

11. Homefaring

12. House of Bones

13. Multiples

14. Sailing to Byzantium

15. Snake and Ocean, Ocean and Snake (variant of The Affair)

16. Sunrise on Pluto

17. Symbiont

18. The Asenion Solution

19. The Dead Man's Eyes

20. The Iron Star

21. The Pardoner's Tale

22. The Secret Sharer

23. To the Promised Land [Roma Eterna]

24. Tourist Trade

Audience
adult
Length
long · 568 pages

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