What's New?

Here's what's been happening in this corner of the virtual world...

November 18, 2000

Please look at the new Quasi-Official Robert Silverberg site at owmyhead.com. This old one at connectexpress.com will not be updated, and will in fact go away before too long.

 

January 10, 2000

Check out a great site by another Silverberg fan, Rodney Walters. It focuses on pulp magazines and nonfiction books. There's also a long list of books written under pseudonyms.

 

December 21, 1999

I've got some new information about two books about Silverberg: The Road to Castle Mount and Robert Silverberg's Many Trapdoors.
Check out the online publication of one of my favorite short works, "This Is the Road" at Event Horizon.
It's not new anymore, but I just came across a press release regarding the online availability of some Silverberg stories.

 

December 16, 1999

Just a couple of new items:
A little bit more about Across a Billion Years.
This web site gets a very nice mention in James Patrick Kelly's "On the Net" column in the February 2000 Asimov's. Thanks!

 

November 1, 1999

Some more info on upcoming publications from Mr. Silverberg...
"Yet another back list deal. The new paperback company iBooks will reissue Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder, plus a collection of five of my best novellas under the title Sailing to Byzantium, and an omnibus of time-travel books including The Time Hoppers, Letters from Atlantis, and Project Pendulum. Further deals are likely. Little by little everything is coming back into print after that long dreary period of unavailability."
And public appearances: "I'm leaving next Wed [November 3] for Providence and the World Fantasy Con, where I'm Guest of Honor. Will be there through Monday morning."
And a little info on the UK omnibus Edge of Light (which has a beautiful cover -- I'll post it when I get a copy myself).

September 20, 1999

A few details added for short works: "Basileus", "Tourist Trade", "Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory", "Snake and Ocean, Ocean and Snake", and "Multiples".
Look for the Summer 1999 issue of Amazing Stories -- it contains a new Silverberg story called "Travelers".

 

September 16, 1999

Some news about upcoming publications... RS has signed a deal with Avon for two new novels, one of which will be a novelization of the Roma Eterna stories. Avon will also be reissuing six older novels, including Downward to the Earth, Dying Inside, A Time of Changes, and Up the Line.
Also look for a trade paperback containing a collection of time travel stories, headed by the novel The Time Hoppers, to be published by i-books. They will also be doing another collection which will include "Sailing to Byzantium".
There is another deal to reprint other of the older books in the works. I'll keep you posted. RS says, "The disappearance of everybody's backlist has been a serious problem in s-f over the past five years, and I'm delighted to be returning from limbo at last."
Aside from that, look for the upcoming Robin Williams movie Bicentennial Man, which incorporates portions of the Asimov/Silverberg collaboration The Positronic Man. It's due out December 17, 1999. Take a look at the advance poster or the IMDB entry. There are other movie projects in the works, but nothing concrete to report yet.

 

August 29, 1999

We now have a Silverberg chat room at Yahoo! Stop by The Worlds of Robert Silverberg and see if any fellow fans are online. Thanks to Tony Mann for setting this up.
Added some info on volumes 5 and 6 in the UK Collected Stories books. Sorry about how big the Collections page is getting -- must do something about that.

 

August 20, 1999

The October/November issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction is on newsstands now, and it contains the new Roma story "A Hero of the Empire" (along with many other pieces by great writers).
Two detective stories from the 50s have recently come to my attention: "Death of an Ex-Ruralite" and "Peeping Tom".

 

July 9, 1999

Updated entry for Far Horizons, and "Getting to Know the Dragon" the Silverberg story in it.
Lord Prestimion is out. I've seen it with my own eyes.

 

June 18, 1999

Robert Silverberg is among the 1999 inductees to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. See the story in Sci-Fi Wire.
A contract has been signed for another Majipoor book. It continues the Prestimion saga and will be called The King of Dreams.
In addition, we can look forward to the reissuing of some of the great novels of the 70s, undeservedly out of print for some time.

 

May 23-25, 1999

Far Horizons is out. Head for your local bookstore now! It got a very favorable review in Science Fiction Weekly.
Added info on more non-fiction books than I can list here.
And Lord Prestimion, the newest Majipoor book, is out in the UK.
I've got some info about The Collected Stories: Pluto in the Morning Light, The Secret Sharer, The Road to Nightfall, and the US publication of Secret Sharers.

 

February 24, 1999

Only one thing, an in-depth anaylsis of "Hot Times in Magma City".
And please check out Alvaro Zinos-Amaro's site dedicated to Barry N. Malzberg, a great writer with many similarites to Robert Silverberg (though not derivative at all).

 

February 15, 1999

Not quite forever, but some updates a long time coming...
Avon Books will be releasing Far Horizons in May. Click here for their web site, or here for a little info I have. This is a science fiction equivalent of the fantasy collection Legends and includes an impressive roster of writers.
It's still a ways away, but there will me a new story called "The Millennium Express" in the January 2000 issue of Playboy.
Another upcoming short work is "A Hero of the Empire" for the 50th anniversary issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
The new Majipoor novel (Lord Prestimion) is out in the UK. American readers can expect it in six months or so.
Mr. Silverberg has informed me that he is in negotiations to reprint a number of his better-known older works. I'll let you know when I can say more.
For all who are interested: I've been working on a program to generate the pages of the web site from a Microsoft Access database (in conjunction with a Delphi program), but I don't want to actually make the change until I can provide as much info as the old-style pages you now see. I've been amazed and somewhat overwhelmed by the sheer volume of data here. In short, for readers the new pages should be a lot more consistent, quicker to load, and easier to navigate; for me, the pages should be easier to maintain, as updates have become more and more difficult the bigger the site becomes.