Legends II - Robert Silverberg

The Man in the Maze - Robert Silverberg

I m really quite astounded that no one ever made a film or TV adaptation of Robert Silverberg s 1968 sci-fi classic (or at least, one of the sci-fi classics the prolific author released that year), but with computer games getting more advanced all the time, I fear it s too late for that idea to seem anything but redundant. Silverberg s tragic, sympathetic and heroic tale of principles and stubbornness set in a weird alien maze can be seen as one of the final publications of his earlier period before his writing apparently improved to the standard of raking in an obscene amount of Hugo and Nebula awards in the following decade, but its futuristic revision of Sophocles ...

The Man in the Maze - Robert Silverberg

I m really quite astounded that no one ever made a film or TV adaptation of Robert Silverberg s 1968 sci-fi classic (or at least, one of the sci-fi classics the prolific author released that year), but with computer games getting more advanced all the time, I fear it s too late for that idea to seem anything but redundant. Silverberg s tragic, sympathetic and heroic tale of principles and stubbornness set in a weird alien maze can be seen as one of the final publications of his earlier period before his writing apparently improved to the standard of raking in an obscene amount of Hugo and Nebula awards in the following decade, but its futuristic revision of Sophocles ...

Legends - Robert Silverberg

You see “Legends” is billed as, “Eleven new works by the masters of modern Fantasy” but in reality it is a taster book of short stories. The editor, Robert Silverberg has cleverly assembled a collection of short stories by some of the most powerful fantasy writers alive, George R.R Martin, Robert Jordan and Terry Pratchett to name but three of eleven. Even more impressive is the fact that all the contributions have links to the writers most famous works be it Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series or Pratchett’s “Discworld” series. This I consider a masterstroke of publishing by both the editor and contributors as fans of a particular series are bound to be drawn to ...

Legends - Robert Silverberg

You see “Legends” is billed as, “Eleven new works by the masters of modern Fantasy” but in reality it is a taster book of short stories. The editor, Robert Silverberg has cleverly assembled a collection of short stories by some of the most powerful fantasy writers alive, George R.R Martin, Robert Jordan and Terry Pratchett to name but three of eleven. Even more impressive is the fact that all the contributions have links to the writers most famous works be it Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series or Pratchett’s “Discworld” series. This I consider a masterstroke of publishing by both the editor and contributors as fans of a particular series are bound to be drawn to ...

Legends - Robert Silverberg

there are no ‘bad’ stories here, but a collection of short stories by the genre’s top authors. NB: I have the hardback version of this book, which contains the full eleven stories. There are, I think, two paperback volumes, each with some of the stories. One contains the stories by: Stephen King, Terry Goodkind, Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg, Ursula LeGuin and Raymond E. Feist, and I assume the remaining appear in the other volume. ...

Legends - Robert Silverberg

there are no ‘bad’ stories here, but a collection of short stories by the genre’s top authors. NB: I have the hardback version of this book, which contains the full eleven stories. There are, I think, two paperback volumes, each with some of the stories. One contains the stories by: Stephen King, Terry Goodkind, Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg, Ursula LeGuin and Raymond E. Feist, and I assume the remaining appear in the other volume. ...