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The Best of Robert Silverberg (1976)

  • PB: Pocket Books, 1976, 258 pages (2 editions), ISBN 671-80282-8
Contents:
  1. Thinking About Silverberg, by Barry N Malzberg (1975)
  2. Introduction, 1975
  3. Road to Nightfall
  4. Warm Man
  5. To See the Invisible Man
  6. The Sixth Palace
  7. Flies
  8. Hawksbill Station
  9. Passengers
  10. Nightwings
  11. Sundance
  12. Good News from the Vatican
 Cover from first edition
In addition, Silverberg wrote a short introduction to each story in this volume. The cover illustration of the secoond edition goes with "Nightwings". Cover art from Pocket second edition uncredited

Beyond the Safe Zone (1986)
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 3 (1995)

  • PB: Warner, 1987, 565 pages
  • TPB: Harper Voyager (UK), 1995
Contents:
  1. Introduction (1985)
  2. Capricorn Games
  3. The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV
  4. Ishmael in Love
  5. Trips
  6. Schwartz Between the Galaxies
  7. Many Mansions
  8. Good News from the Vatican
  9. In the Group
  10. The Feast of St Dionysus
  11. Caught in the Organ Draft
  12. (Now + n, Now - n)
  13. Caliban
  14. Getting Across
  15. Breckenridge and the Continuum
  16. In the House of Double Minds
  17. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
  18. The Wind and the Rain
  19. A Sea of Faces
  20. What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper
  21. Ship-sister, Star-sister
  22. When We Went to See the End of the World
  23. Push No More
  24. Some Notes on the Pre-dynastic Epoch
  25. In Entropy's Jaws
  26. Ms Found in an Abandoned Time Machine
  27. The Mutant Season
  28. This Is the Road
 Cover art by Don Dixon
A big book of stories from before the sabbatical, bringing together just about all of Silverberg's best short works of the late 60s and early 70s. It replaces Capricorn Games, The Feast of St Dionysus, and Unfamiliar Territory. It has been reissued as Volume 3 of the British Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg series. When it came to choosing the best stories of the 1970s, there was no need to make a new book, as this one already did the job admirably.

Born with the Dead (1974)

Covr art 1984 by Jim Burns
  • HB: Random House, 1974, 267 pages
  • PB: Vintage, 1975, 257 pages, ISBN 0-394-71447-4
  • PB: Berkeley, 1979, 242 pages
  • PB: Bantam, 1984, 246 pages, ISBN 0-553-24103-6
Contents:
  1. Introduction (1978)
  2. Born with the Dead
  3. Thomas the Proclaimer
  4. Going
 Cover art from Berkeley edition uncredited
Cover art 1975 by Charles Shields

The Calibrated Alligator (1969)

Contents:
  1. The Calibrated Alligator
  2. Blaze of Glory
  3. The Artifact Business
  4. Precedent
  5. Mugwump
  6. Why?
  7. His Head in the Clouds
  8. Point of Focus
  9. Delivery Guaranteed

Capricorn Games (1976)

  • HB: Random House, 1976
  • PB: Donning Starblaze, 1979 (with illustrations by Polly and Kelly Freas), ISBN 0-915442-62-0
Contents:
  1. Capricorn Games
  2. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
  3. Ms Found in an Abandoned Time Machine
  4. Breckenridge and the Continuum
  5. Ship-sister, Star-sister
  6. A Sea of Faces
  7. The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV
  8. Getting Across
 Cover art by Kelly Freas

The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg

There are two versions of this series, the American (which isn't much of a series so far) and the British.

US editions:
  1. Secret Sharers
UK editions:
  1. Pluto in the Morning Light
  2. The Secret Sharer
  3. Beyond the Safe Zone
  4. The Road to Nightfall
  5. Ringing the Changes
  6. Lion Time in Timbucktoo

The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party (1984)

  • HB: Arbor House, 1984
  • PB: Bantam, 1985, 317 pages

A collection of stories from after the sabbatical.

Contents:
  1. Introduction (1983)
  2. The Far Side of the Bell-Shaped Curve
  3. The Pope of the Chimps
  4. The Changeling
  5. The Man Who Floated in Time
  6. The Palace at Midnight
  7. A Thousand Paces Along the Via Dolorosa
  8. At the Conglomeroid Cocktail Party
  9. Our Lady of the Sauropods
  10. Gianni
  11. The Trouble with Sempoanga
  12. How They Pass the Time in Pelpel
  13. Waiting for the Earthquake
  14. Not Our Brother
  15. The Regulars
  16. Jennifer's Lover
  17. Needle in a Timestack
 Cover art by Jim Burns
This collection assembles most of Silverberg's excellent stories from the early 80s.

The Cube Root of Uncertainty (1970)

  • HB: Macmillan, 1970, 239 pages
  • PB: Collier, 1971,239 pages
Contents:
  1. Passengers
  2. Double Dare
  3. The Sixth Palace
  4. Translation Error
  5. The Shadow of Wings
  6. Absolutely Inflexible
  7. The Iron Chancellor
  8. Mugwump Four
  9. To the Dark Star
  10. Neighbor
  11. Halfway House
  12. Sundance
 Cover art uncredited

Dimension Thirteen (1969)

  • PB: Ballantine, 1969, 215 pages
Contents:
  1. Eve and the Twenty-Three Adams
  2. Warm Man
  3. By the Seawall
  4. Dark Companion
  5. The Four
  6. Bride Ninety-One
  7. World of a Thousand Colors
  8. En Route to Earth
  9. The King of the Golden River
  10. Prime Commandment
  11. Halfway House
  12. Journey's End
  13. Solitary
 Cover art uncredited

Earth's Other Shadow (1973)

  • PB: Signet, 1973, 207 pages
Contents:
  1. Something Wild Is Loose
  2. To See the Invisible Man
  3. Ishmael in Love
  4. How It Was When the Past Went Away
  5. To the Dark Star
  6. The Fangs of the Trees
  7. Hidden Talent
  8. The Song the Zombie Sang (with Harlan Ellison)
  9. Flies
 Cover art uncredited

Edge of Light (1998)

Contents:
  1. A Time of Changes
  2. Downward to the Earth
  3. The Second Trip
  4. Dying Inside
  5. Nightwings

The Feast of St Dionysus (1975)

  • PB: Berkeley, 1979, 210 pages
Contents:
  1. Introduction
  2. The Feast of St Dionysus
  3. Schwartz Between the Galaxies
  4. Trips
  5. In the House of Double Minds
  6. This Is the Road
 Cover art uncredited

Godling, Go Home! (1964)

  • PB: Belmont, 1964, 157 pages
Contents:
  1. Godling, Go Home!
  2. Why?
  3. The Silent Colony
  4. Force of Mortality
  5. There's No Place Like Space
  6. Neutral Planet
  7. The Lonely One
  8. Solitary
  9. The Man with Talent
  10. The Desiccator
  11. The World He Left Behind
 Cover art uncredited

Lion Time in Timbucktoo: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 6 (2000?)

Apparently this collection is slated for publication in the UK in March 2000. I'm guessing it will contain stories from the 90s, many of which have never appeared in book form.

Moonferns and Starsongs (1971)

  • PB: Ballantine, 1971
Contents:
  1. A Happy Day in 2381
  2. After the Myths Went Home
  3. Passengers
  4. To Be Continued
  5. Nightwings
  6. We Know Who We Are
  7. The Pleasure of Their Company
  8. The Songs of Summer
  9. A Man of Talent
  10. Collecting Team
  11. Going Down Smooth
 Cover art by Gene Szafran

Needle in a Timestack (1966/1980)

  • PB: Ballantine, 1966, 190 pages
  • PB: Ace, 1985, 180 pages, ISBN 0-441-56872-6
Contents (1966 edition):
  1. The Pain Peddlers
  2. Passport to Sirius
  3. The Shadow of Wings
  4. The Sixth Palace
  5. There Was an Old Woman
  6. Absolutely Inflexible
  7. Birds of a Feather
  8. His Brother's Weeper
  9. The Iron Chancellor
  10. To See the Invisible Man
 Cover art 1966 uncredited
Contents (1979 version):
  1. Preface
  2. The Iron Chancellor
  3. The Reality Trip
  4. The Shrines of Earth
  5. Black Is Beautiful
  6. Ringing the Changes
  7. Translation Error
  8. The Shadow of Wings
  9. Absolutely Inflexible
  10. His Brother's Weeper
 Cover art 1985 by Don Dixon
In the Preface to the second edition, Silverberg explains that when it came time to reprint this collection, there were a few of the stories in it which were at the time also in other collections in print, so he took the liberty of replacing them with others "of about the same length, vintage, and quality," but not otherwise available. This is slight mis-statement, since a number of the stories in the second edition had not been written when the original edition was published. Also note that the short story called "Needle in a Timestack" does not appear in either collection of the same name, and was in fact written much later.

Next Stop the Stars (1962)

Cover art 1962 by Ed Emsh
  • PB: Ace, 1962 (Double F-145 with The Seed of Earth)
  • PB: Ace, 1976, 144 pages
  • PB: Tor, 1986, ISBN: 0-812-55462-0
Contents:
  1. Slaves of the Star Giants
  2. The Songs of Summer
  3. Hopper
  4. Blaze of Glory
  5. Warm Man
 Cover art 1986 by Tom Kidd
Cover art 1977 uncredited

Parsecs and Parables (1970)

Contents:
  1. The Man Who Never Forgot
  2. Ishmael in Love
  3. One-way Journey
  4. Sunrise on Mercury
  5. The Outbreeders
  6. Road to Nightfall
  7. Going Down Smooth
  8. Counterpart
  9. Flies
  10. The Fangs of the Trees

Pluto in the Morning Light: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1 (1992)

Contents:
  1. Introduction
  2. Homefaring
  3. Basileus
  4. Dancers in the Time-Flux
  5. Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory
  6. Amanda and the Alien
  7. Snake and Ocean, Ocean and Snake
  8. Tourist Trade
  9. Multiples
  10. Against Babylon
  11. Symbiont
  12. Sailing to Byzantium
  13. Sunrise on Pluto
  14. Hardware
  15. Hannibal's Elephants
  16. Blindsight
 Cover art by John Howe
This large collection covers the early 1980s, a particularly fertile period in Silverberg's career where short works are concerned. This British version called Volume 1 contains roughly half of what's in the American Volume 1. The other half is split into the British Volume 2. Just so the publishers could keep us on our toes.

The Reality Trip (and Other Implausibities) (1972)

  • PB: Ballantine, 1972, 210 pages, ISBN 345-02548-2
Contents:
  1. In Entropy's Jaws
  2. The Reality Trip
  3. Black Is Beautiful
  4. Ozymandias
  5. Caliban
  6. The Shrines of Earth
  7. Ringing the Changes
  8. Hawksbill Station (revised version)
 Cover art from Ballantine edition uncredited

Ringing the Changes: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 5 (1997)

Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. To See the Invisible Man
  3. The Pain Peddlers
  4. Neighbor
  5. The Sixth Palace
  6. Flies
  7. Halfway House
  8. To the Dark Star
  9. Passengers
  10. Bride Ninety-One
  11. Going Down Smooth
  12. The Fangs of the Trees
  13. Ishmael in Love
  14. Ringing the Changes
  15. Sundance
  16. How It Was When the Past Went Away
  17. After the Myths Went Home
  18. The Pleasure of Their Company
  19. We Know Who We Are
  20. Something Wild Is Loose
  21. The Reality Trip

The Road to Nightfall: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 4 (1996)

Contents:
  1. Introduction
  2. Road to Nightfall
  3. Gorgon Planet
  4. The Silent Colony
  5. Absolutely Inflexible
  6. The Macauley Circuit
  7. The Songs of Summer
  8. Alaree
  9. The Artifact Business
  10. Collecting Team
  11. A Man of Talent
  12. One-Way Journey
  13. Sunrise on Mercury
  14. World of a Thousand Colors
  15. Warm Man
  16. Blaze of Glory
  17. Why?
  18. The Outbreeders
  19. The Man Who Never Forgot
  20. There Was an Old Woman
  21. The Iron Chancellor
  22. Ozymandias
 Cover art uncredited
This volume of the British Collected Stories series does a good job of covering Silverberg's work of the 1950s, skipping the duds. Perhaps the most notable inclusion is the first republication of his first story, "Gorgon Planet".

A Robert Silverberg Omnibus

Contents:
  1. Master of Life and Death
  2. Invaders from Earth
  3. The Time-hoppers

Sailing to Byzantium (2000?)

A collection of five of Silverberg's best novellas, including the title work.

The Secret Sharer: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 2 (1993)

This is the British collection finishing up Silverberg's best work from the 1980s. It is mostly made up of those stories in the US edition which date from the later half of the 80s.

Secret Sharers: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1 (1992)

Contents (US edition):
  1. Introduction
  2. Homefaring
  3. Basileus
  4. Dancers in the Time-Flux
  5. Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory
  6. Amanda and the Alien
  7. Snake and Ocean, Ocean and Snake
  8. Tourist Trade
  9. Multiples
  10. Against Babylon
  11. Symbiont
  12. Sailing to Byzantium
  13. Sunrise on Pluto
  14. Hardware
  15. Hannibal's Elephants
  16. The Iron Star
  17. The Secret Sharer
  18. House of Bones
  19. The Dead Man's Eyes
  20. Chip Runner
  21. To the Promised Land
  22. The Asenion Solution
  23. A Sleep and a Forgetting
  24. Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another

A large collection of stories from the 1980s, including many excellent pieces. It would be hard to imagine a more suitable introduction to Silverberg's fertile work in short forms from this period. The UK edition has somewhat different contents and is split into two volumes (Pluto in the Morning Light and The Secret Sharer).

The Shores of Tomorrow (1976)

Contents:
  1. Sound Decision
  2. The Day the Founder Died
  3. Quick Freeze
  4. Stress Pattern
  5. The Silent Colony
  6. The Isolationists
  7. Deadlock
  8. The Final Challenge

Sundance and Other Science Fiction Stories (1974)

Contents:
  1. Sundance
  2. Neighbor
  3. Passport to Sirius
  4. Caught in the Organ Draft
  5. Neutral Planet
  6. The Pain Peddlers
  7. The Overlord's Thumb
  8. The Outbreeders
  9. Something Wild Is Loose
 Cover art uncredited
 

Sunrise on Mercury (1975)

Contents:
  1. Sunrise on Mercury
  2. Hi Diddle Diddle!
  3. Birds of a Feather
  4. There Was an Old Woman
  5. Alaree
  6. The Macauley Circuit
  7. Company Store
  8. After the Myths Went Home
  
Contents (British editions):
  1. Sunrise on Mercury
  2. Why?
  3. There Was an Old Woman
  4. Alaree
  5. Going Down Smooth
  6. The Man Who Never Forgot
  7. World of a Thousand Colors
  8. The Day the Founder Died
  9. The Artifact Business
  10. The Silent Colony
  11. The Four
  12. Precedent
  13. After the Myths Went Home
 Cover art uncredited

To Worlds Beyond (1965)

Contents:
  1. The Old Man
  2. New Men for Mars
  3. Collecting Team
  4. Double Dare
  5. The Overlord's Thumb
  6. Ozymandias
  7. Certainty
  8. Mind for Business
  9. Misfit
 Cover from Ace 1980

Unfamiliar Territory (1973)

  • PB: Berkeley, 1978, 207 pages
Contents:
  1. Introduction (1977)
  2. Caught in the Organ Draft
  3. (Now + n, Now - n)
  4. Some Notes on the Pre-dynastic Epoch
  5. In the Group
  6. Caliban
  7. Many Mansions
  8. Good News from the Vatican
  9. Push No More
  10. The Mutant Season
  11. When We Went to See the End of the World
  12. What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper
  13. In Entropy's Jaws
  14. The Wind and the Rain
 Cover art by "Alexander"
Note that all the stories in Unfamiliar Territory also appear in Beyond the Safe Zone.

Valley Beyond Time (1972)

  • PB: Dell, 1972, 223 pages
Contents:
  1. Introduction (1969)
  2. Valley Beyond Time
  3. The Flame and the Hammer
  4. The Wages of Death
  5. Spacerogue

Four stories from 1957 and 1958.

Cover art from Dell edition uncredited

World of a Thousand Colors (1982)

  • PB: Bantam, 1984, 331 pages
Contents:
  1. Introduction (1982)
  2. Something Wild Is Loose
  3. The Pain Peddlers
  4. Going Down Smooth
  5. World of a Thousand Colors
  6. The Outbreeders
  7. Neighbor
  8. The Man Who Never Forgot
  9. Prime Commandment
  10. One-way Journey
  11. To the Dark Star
  12. The Four
  13. Passport to Sirius
  14. Counterpart
  15. Neutral Planet
  16. Solitary
  17. Journey's End
  18. The Fangs of the Trees
  19. En Route to Earth
  20. How It Was When the Past Went Away
 Cover art by Jim Burns

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