OTHER TIMES, OTHER SPACES: A LIFE SPENT
IN THE FUTURE
by Robert Silverberg
Isaac Asimov is dead. So are Robert
Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, and Arthur C. Clarke. These were all
authors of the first rank in the field of science fiction. Yet
there is a Master of Science Fiction still alive and writing,
and pretty much taken for granted, and he is Robert Silverberg.
His new autobiographical book, Other Times, Other Spaces: A
Life Spent in the Future (Nonstop Press), shows how, as a
survivor from the mid-20th century golden age of the genre,
both the field and Silverberg grew up and matured together.
As Silverberg writes in his introduction
to the book: “In the course of my six decades of writing,
I’ve witnessed the transition of science fiction
publishing from being a pulp-magazine-centered field to one
dominated by mass-market paperback companies, and I’ve
known and dealt with virtually every editor who played a role
in that evolution. For much of that time I was close to the
center of the field as writer and sometimes as editor, not only
deeply involved in its commercial mutations, but also privy to
all the personal and professional gossip that it generated. All
that special knowledge has left me with a sense of my
responsibility to the field’s historians. I was there, I
did this and did that, I worked with this great editor and that
one, I knew all but a handful of the major writers on a
first-name basis, and all of that will be lost if I don’t
make some sort of record of it. Therefore it behooves me to set
down an account of those experiences for those who will find
them of value.”
Some of Silverberg’s
taken-for-granted status may be due to the under-representation
of his work in film or TV, though this is fast changing with a
production, based on his masterwork Dying Inside, now shooting
in France. He has not had Philip K. Dick’s luck in having
his works filmed or collected in The Library of American
Writers series. (However, it should be noted that most of
Dick’s fame came posthumously.) Like Dick, Silverberg is
super-prolific, as the condensed bibliography at the back of
Other Times, Other Spaces shows, with over a hundred novels and
over a thousand short stories to his credit. Also, like Dick
early on, he is well known by the science fiction cognoscenti
for the visionary quality of his books. Sooner or later the
rest of the world will have to play catch-up.
The graybeard Silverberg turned 74
earlier this year. In the heavily illustrated Other Times,
Other Spaces, he appears in good health and should be around
for many years to come.
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4 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction * in
7 * - * One: Beginnings * hd
8 * Robert Silverberg * Memories of a
Curious Childhood * ar * Asimov's 2-97
11 * Robert Silverberg * Crimes of My
Youth * ar * Asimov's 8-98
14 * Robert Silverberg * Aladdin's Cave *
ar * Asimov's 1-2008
19 * Robert Silverberg * The Books of
Childhood: One * ar * Amazing 4-92
22 * Robert Silverberg * The Books of
Childhood: Two * ar * Amazing 10-92
26 * Robert Silverberg * A Matter of
Definitions [as foreword to `Hole in the Air'] * ar * Amazing 1-81
29 * Robert Silverberg * It Wasn't All
That Easy * ar * Asimov's 2-2009
32 * Robert Silverberg * The Wheel Keeps
Turning * ar * Asimov's 8-99
37 * - * Two: On Writing SF * hd
38 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Road to Nightfall' * is from PHASES OF THE MOON: Stories from
Six Decades by Robert Silverberg, Subterranean Press, 2004
40 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Yokel with Portfolio' * is from IN THE BEGINNING: Tales from
the Pulp Era by Robert Silverberg, Subterranean Press, 2006
40 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`The Macauley Circuit' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
41 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Long Live the Kejwa' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
44 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Sunrise on Mercury' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
45 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Guardian of the Crystal Gate' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
47 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Choke Chain' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
48 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Citadel of Darkness' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
48 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Cosmic Kill' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
50 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`New Year's Eve-2000 A.D.' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
53 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`The Android Kill' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
53 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`The Hunters of Cutwold' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
57 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Warm Man' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
58 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Come Into My Brain' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
59 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Castaways of Space' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
60 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Exiled from Earth' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
61 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Second Start' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
62 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Mournful Monster' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
63 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Vampires from Outer Space' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
64 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`The Insidious Invaders' * is * IN THE BEGINNING
66 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`To See the Invisible Man' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
69 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Flies' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
71 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Passengers' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
73 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Going Down Smooth' * is
from GALAXY: Thirty Years of Innovative
Science Fiction, Pohl/Olander/Greenberg, Playboy Press, 1980
75 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Nightwings' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
77 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Sundance' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
79 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Good News from the Vatican' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
82 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Capricorn Games' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
83 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Born with the Dead' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
86 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Schwartz Between the Galaxies' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
88 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`The Far Side of the Bell-Shaped Curve' * is * PHASES OF THE
MOON
90 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Needle in a Timestack' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
92 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Sailing to Byzantium' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
93 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another' * is * PHASES OF THE
MOON
95 * Robert Silverberg * Introduction to
`Death Do Us Part' * is * PHASES OF THE MOON
96 * - * Three: Autobiography * hd
97 * Robert Silverberg * Sounding Brass,
Tinkling Cymbal * bg from HELL'S CARTOGRAPHERS,
Aldiss/Harrison, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975
127 * Robert Silverberg * Postscript to
`Sounding Brass, Tinkling Cymbal', October, 1975 * ms 1975 from
Algol Winter 1976
128 * Robert Silverberg * My {Star Trek}
Treatment * ar 1978
129 * Robert Silverberg * The Making of
Majipoor * ar * The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writers of America Winter 1996
138 * Robert Silverberg * Autobiography
Update II * ar 1998
149 * - * Four: Miscellany of a Life * hd
150 * Robert Silverberg * Tiptree
["James Tiptree, Jr."] * ar; ref. James Tiptree, Jr.
* Amazing 3-93
153 * Robert Silverberg * Agberg, Ltd;
Est. 1981 * ar 1981
157 * Robert Silverberg * The Oakland
Fire * ar * Amazing 2-92
161 * Robert Silverberg * Going to
Conventions * ar * Amazing 9-93
167 * Robert Silverberg * Grand Masters,
the Sequel * ar * Asimov's 2-2005
170 * Anon. * Robert Silverberg Science
Fiction Bibliography * bi
194 * List of Illustrations
196 * Index
