Robert Silverberg Books in Order

Five stories explore unusual states of mind and journeys beyond familiar reality. A disillusioned anthropologist’s imagined interstellar travels collide with his homogenized world, while the accompanying tales extend the collection’s concerns with identity, experience and change.

Statistics expert Lew Nichols uses probability to guide a rising politician's campaign. Meeting millionaire Martin Carvajal, who can genuinely see the future, tempts Nichols to develop that power himself and confront the unsettling costs of certainty.

Eight stories gather speculative situations involving time, identity and encounters beyond Earth. The title story appears alongside Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine, Ship-Sister, Star-Sister and The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV.

Doctor Shadrach Mordecai keeps the aging world dictator Genghis Mao alive while scientific projects pursue immortality. His professional obligations become a struggle for personal survival when the ruler's quest threatens to turn Shadrach's own body into a resource.

Silverberg selects ten pieces of his shorter fiction, ranging from macabre encounters to satire and fantastic possibilities. His comments accompany each story, connecting their unusual situations with the ideas and experiences behind their creation.

Eight stories follow travelers, colonists and ordinary people facing futures that overturn their expectations. A doomed space liner, an imperiled rescue expedition and competing plans for Mars place questions of survival, responsibility and cultural conflict at the center.

Nine stories explore encounters with unfamiliar minds and transformed human experiences. A dolphin’s love for a human woman appears alongside tales of invisibility, vanished memories and unsettling discoveries, bringing private desires into contact with speculative possibilities.

This anthology presents science fiction selected for its visionary qualities, exploring experiences beyond ordinary perceptions of space, time and human existence. Silverberg's introductions frame stories intended to evoke wonder, unease and a sense of the universe's vastness.

Rhialto and his fellow magicians travel toward the universe's edge to find Morreion, a colleague sent away ages earlier. Their search for the source of valuable IOUN stones draws them into mysteries involving powerful magic and a long absence.

An amnesiac named Valentine joins a troupe of jugglers traveling across the vast, many-species world of Majipoor. Troubling dreams suggest a lost connection to its throne, sending him on a dangerous journey to uncover his identity.

On his journey across the Dying Earth, Cugel becomes entangled with the swindler Iolo and a magical breach into another world. A stolen collection of dreams fuels a contest of deception in which neither trickster can safely trust the other.

Short of money and eager to leave Gundar, Cugel schemes his way into guarding a caravan of seventeen young women. Their journey to a ceremonial pageant gives the resourceful rogue new opportunities for deception and clashes with local customs.

Silverberg gathers original science fiction exploring alien languages, unfamiliar beings, and extraordinary encounters. The stories move between plausible extrapolation and stranger imagined situations, presenting different writers’ approaches to contact, experience, and possibilities beyond ordinary human life.

Young Hissune explores Majipoor's history through stored memories in the great Labyrinth. These linked stories immerse him in the lives of rulers, criminals and alien inhabitants, revealing the varied experiences and hidden past of the enormous planet.

Silverberg and Marta Randall gather science fiction from writers including Michael Swanwick, Gregory Benford, Vonda McIntyre, and Elizabeth Lynn. The anthology brings together contrasting speculative voices from the New Wave era, alongside an illustration by Wendy Rose.

As Majipoor prepares for the death of its Pontifex, Prince Prestimion appears destined to become the next Coronal. Rival prince Korsibar, barred by tradition from succeeding his father, pursues the crown amid prophecy, sorcery and growing political conflict.

Nineteen stories explore unfamiliar worlds and the dangers of journeys through space and the human mind. Travelers, strange societies and encounters with the unknown reveal how discovery can expose both extraordinary possibilities and unsettling threats.

Captured by Portuguese seafarers, English adventurer Andrew Battell is taken to Angola and repeatedly denied his freedom. Escaping into the interior, he struggles to survive among warriors ruled by a formidable king while longing to return home.

Dark dreams warn Lord Valentine of a crisis on Majipoor as the dispossessed Shapeshifters plot to reclaim their world. His efforts to preserve peace face opposition within his court and the prospect of catastrophic conflict across the planet.

This retelling of the ancient epic follows the ambitious king of Uruk and his friendship with Enkidu. Their adventures confront Gilgamesh with the limits of his power, driving him toward a quest to overcome mortality itself.

Rhialto belongs to a conclave of powerful magicians living during Earth's final age. These stories follow their personal rivalries, political maneuvering and journeys through extraordinary realms, where immense magical abilities offer little protection against vanity and deceit.

Sixteen stories gather strange encounters and speculative situations, including The Pope of the Chimps, The Changeling and Waiting for the Earthquake. The collection also features A Thousand Paces Along the Via Dolorosa and the title story’s unusual gathering.

Trapped in an Afterworld where the dead repeatedly live and die again, Gilgamesh seeks his lost companion Enkidu and a return to earthly life. His journey brings encounters with figures from history, myth and literature in a bewildering reality.

Charles Phillips, apparently transported from twentieth-century New York, explores recreated historical cities on a distant-future Earth with his companion Gioia. Their seemingly carefree travels raise troubling questions about identity, aging and the nature of the people surrounding them.

In devastated future California, a wandering man dismissed as mad experiences visions of beautiful alien worlds. When others begin sharing them and evidence suggests they are real, Tom becomes the reluctant center of a movement with dangerous consequences.

Gilgamesh retreats into the remote hinterlands of Hell, hoping for peace after a troubled separation from Enkidu. Encounters with strange creatures and the deceased writers Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft complicate the legendary king's afterlife.

Retired Rom king Yakoub lives on an icy world while his people, indispensable pilots of interstellar ships, fall into turmoil. Summoned back into galactic politics, he must contest his throne and pursue the dream of returning his people to their ancestral home.

Accounts of treasure hunters and salvage operations trace attempts to recover riches lost beneath the sea. Dangerous expeditions from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries reveal the difficulty of retrieving sunken wealth, while some treasures remain beyond reach.

Twenty-seven stories explore futures involving immortality, time travel, intelligent dolphins and a robot pope. Extraordinary technologies and altered societies place familiar human desires under pressure, revealing how scientific possibilities can complicate relationships, belief and individual freedom.

Identical twins Sean and Eric Gabrielson become the subjects of an experiment sending them in opposite directions through time. As their journeys expand toward remote eras, unfamiliar inhabitants and the experiment's rigid limits threaten to overwhelm their scientific ambitions.

Silverberg revisits thirteen science fiction stories that helped shape his writing, pairing the complete works with essays about their techniques. His reflections trace lessons in storytelling and the development of his craft through authors who influenced his early career.

After countless generations sheltered underground from a planetary catastrophe, Koshmar leads her people onto Earth's surface. Guided toward an ancient ruined city, the tribe encounters unfamiliar creatures, competing groups and revelations that challenge its beliefs about the renewed world.

On his first mission commanding a vast starship, Captain Adam learns that a disembodied passenger has escaped storage and killed a sleeper. His response to the fugitive puts his career at risk and challenges his understanding of consciousness and identity.

Mutants with extraordinary abilities have long concealed themselves to avoid persecution, but political acceptance offers new hope. A prominent politician's murder threatens that progress, forcing a divided mutant community to investigate while protecting its members and loved ones.

In a future America dominated by computerized entertainment, researchers create thinking simulations of famous historical figures. Elizabeth I, Genghis Khan and others encounter one another in an unfamiliar world, where their personalities and ambitions complicate their creators' plans.

This shared-world anthology explores a future society that uses computer-generated personalities modeled on long-dead historical figures as servants. The stories examine encounters between humans and these artificial beings, exposing complications in a technology designed to reproduce human minds.

Time traveler Thimiroi visits an earlier era with a tour group but develops a relationship with local woman Christine Rawlins. His growing attachment tempts him to reveal knowledge of the future, risking the consequences of interference with history.

Researcher Roy Colton sends his consciousness twenty thousand years into the past to observe Atlantis through the mind of its heir, Prince Ram. Advanced technology and disturbing dreams push Roy to investigate the island's origins and impending catastrophe.

As divided tribes rebuild after Earth's long winter, the organized insectlike hjjks offer a treaty promising security under their telepathic queen. The seductive proposal forces the People to weigh survival against an inhuman vision of civilization and the threat of war.

A scientific experiment brings a Neanderthal child into the modern world, leaving him frightened and isolated. The nurse hired to care for him develops an attachment that puts his human needs at odds with the researchers' priorities.

Expelled from their floating island on the ocean planet Hydros, a small human community searches for another home. Their dangerous voyage leads toward a mysterious island, testing their survival and their understanding of the world's native life.

Poilar Crookleg is chosen to lead his village's sacred pilgrimage up an immense mountain. Hoping to encounter the gods, he and his companions face dangers and temptations on a journey from which no one returns both alive and sane.

Twenty-four stories range across alien encounters, time travel and transformed human lives, including Homefaring and House of Bones. Introductions by Silverberg explain when and where each work arose, connecting their speculative situations with the circumstances of their creation.

Andrew Martin, a household robot, wants recognition as a human being. Across a long struggle, he pursues freedom, legal rights and physical transformation, confronting prejudice and the limitations built into both his machinery and the society around him.

Scientists bring a young Neanderthal into the twenty-first century and treat him as an experiment. His nurse, Edith Fellowes, sees a vulnerable child instead, creating a bond that challenges the institution's authority over his future.

This illustrated anthology pairs scientific essays about dinosaurs with speculative stories by writers including Silverberg, Ray Bradbury and Poul Anderson. It moves between evidence about prehistoric life and imagined encounters that explore what dinosaur worlds might have been like.

Rookie Time Service agent Edward Davis travels to ancient Thebes to rescue two missing colleagues. As he adapts to Egyptian life and approaches his return deadline, he must discover their fate while confronting the past's unexpected appeal.

On a nearly uninhabitable Earth, corporations pursue genetic changes that might let humanity survive its poisoned atmosphere. An operative's search for a missing scientist aboard an orbital habitat draws personal ambitions into competing plans for the species' future.

This history examines the Pueblo uprising against Spanish rule in New Mexico in 1680. Silverberg traces the religious coercion, exploitation and worsening conditions behind the revolt, then follows the struggle over independence and the region's subsequent reconquest.

Exiled Prince Harpirias receives a chance to redeem himself by negotiating the release of scientists held in Majipoor's remote mountains. The mission takes him beyond familiar civilisation, where misunderstanding an isolated people's customs could endanger both him and the hostages.

Fifty people abandon comfortable lives on a utopian Earth to search the galaxy for worlds to settle. Their expedition carries humanity's genetic future, but its only connection home depends on a fragile telepathic bond between two sisters.

Silverberg investigates the origins of Prester John, the legendary Christian ruler whose supposed kingdom fascinated medieval Europe. This nonfiction account follows the stories and searches surrounding the elusive monarch, exploring how belief and geographical discovery became entangled.

This collection gathers Silverberg's magazine columns about science fiction and the wider world. Reflections on scientific ideas, public events and fellow writers trace the concerns of a working author as the genre and society change around him.

Stories bring together unusual encounters and speculative situations, including To See the Invisible Man, The Sixth Palace and Flies. Silverberg introduces each selection, explaining its background as the collection moves among distinct visions of human experience.

Powerful aliens conquer Earth without explaining their motives, crushing resistance through disease and punishment. Across generations, the Carmichael family refuses to surrender the idea of freedom, struggling to preserve human independence against an enemy that appears impossible to defeat.

Edited by Silverberg, this anthology gathers original short novels set in their authors' established fantasy worlds. Stories from writers including Stephen King and Raymond E. Feist offer new conflicts and perspectives within familiar series, while introducing their settings to newcomers.

This fantasy anthology returns to established fictional worlds through new short novels. Robin Hobb explores exiles on the Cursed Shores, while George R. R. Martin follows Dunk and Egg, placing fresh adventures within the histories of their larger series.

After using magic to erase memories of Majipoor's civil war, Prestimion faces an escaped enemy and a spreading madness. His search for the fugitive becomes entangled with the possibility that his own attempt at healing caused the new crisis.

Four fantasy stories revisit the worlds of The Wheel of Time, Earthsea, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, and Discworld. Journeys into magic, a haunted castle and a witches' contest reveal additional corners of these established settings.

Baird Ewing travels from his threatened colony to Earth seeking help against alien invaders. Instead of a powerful mother world, he finds a weakened planet facing subjugation itself, forcing him to seek another answer to his colony's danger.

This omnibus collects three time-travel novels exploring ancient Atlantis, paired journeys through history and illegal escapes from a controlled future. Travellers confront unfamiliar societies and the difficulties of intervening in a past already woven into their own world's history.

Prestimion prepares to pass Majipoor's Coronal crown to Dekkeret, believing peace has finally returned. A threat associated with a weapon capable of invading dreams resurfaces, forcing both leaders to confront dangers they thought had been destroyed.

A rebellion leaves fifteen-year-old Joseph, heir to a ruling family, stranded far from home. His journey across an unfamiliar world forces him to survive without privilege and question the social order he once accepted without doubt.

In this alternate history, the Roman Empire survives through centuries of conquest, political struggle and technological change. Interconnected stories follow the people living beneath its power, including those who seek an escape from oppression beyond Earth itself.

This collection brings together Silverberg’s early short fiction, showing the beginnings of his science-fiction career. The stories offer a view of the ideas and storytelling approaches he explored before the later novels and novellas for which he became known.

Stories spanning six decades trace Silverberg’s changing approach to science fiction, from early adventures to later explorations of human experience. His personal selections bring together encounters with unfamiliar worlds, altered lives and the possibilities opened by speculative storytelling.

Silverberg gathers early science-fiction stories written during his years working for pulp magazines. Space adventures and speculative encounters reveal a young writer developing his craft, accompanied by reflections on the circumstances and ambitions behind these formative works.

Twenty-four early stories trace Silverberg’s development through alien worlds, unusual discoveries, and imagined futures. Introductions and individual notes connect the fiction with his first years in magazine publishing, showing the beginnings of a career beyond pulp storytelling.

Stories from the 1960s explore transformed societies, alien encounters, and the instability of identity and perception. Silverberg accompanies tales including Passengers and Sundance with reflections on the period when his fiction began moving beyond familiar magazine formulas.

These stories from Silverberg’s changing career examine strange experiences and discontented lives shaped by speculative possibilities. Written amid cultural upheaval, the collection follows characters seeking understanding or escape, with an introduction connecting their worlds to their turbulent origins.

Silverberg looks back on his life in science fiction, from writing for the fading pulp market to a changing literary field. This autobiography explores the creation of his stories and the experiences behind a long professional writing career.

A tribute anthology edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois, set in Jack Vance’s far-future Dying Earth. The stories riff on tricky wizards, doomed bargains, and decadent cities, capturing the setting’s mix of dark humor, beauty, and menace.

Stories written in 1972 and 1973 explore identity, altered realities, and the limits of human experience. Silverberg’s introduction traces his search for more ambitious storytelling, accompanying tales including Born with the Dead and the title story.

This history follows the Houses of York and Lancaster as they fight for England's throne during the Wars of the Roses. Silverberg examines the personalities, political manoeuvring and battles behind a conflict that reshaped the monarchy.

These essays explore science fiction, science, society and the practical life of a writer. Silverberg considers fellow authors, technological ideas and cultural changes, connecting personal experience with questions about how speculative fiction responds to the world.

Silverberg recounts the Crusades through the people, ambitions and religious commitments behind two centuries of conflict. Political rivalries, betrayal and battles sit alongside acts of courage, offering a human account of struggles between Christian and Muslim powers.

Stories of time travel, transformed perception, and unusual encounters explore human experience beyond familiar limits. This collection includes Needle in a Timestack, Amanda and the Alien, and Homefaring, with Silverberg reflecting on the demands of his craft.

Five stories explore unsettling futures and encounters that test human understanding. A transformed Earth, ancient secrets, an alien visitor and strange experiences of beauty bring ordinary desires into contact with forces that challenge familiar ideas about reality and survival.

Seven early adventures carry their characters across strange worlds and unfamiliar periods of time. Giant beings, dangerous voyages, hidden valleys and alien threats create a series of conflicts in which survival depends on confronting mysteries beyond ordinary human experience.

Stories from Silverberg’s return to writing explore alienation, discovery, and the uncertain boundaries of humanity. The collection includes Sailing to Byzantium, Gilgamesh in the Outback, and The Secret Sharer, alongside reflections on the circumstances surrounding their creation.

Five stories follow unusual journeys through history, distant worlds and imagined afterlives. Gilgamesh and Enkidu encounter other famous figures in hell, while other travelers confront the instability of identity and the consequences of crossing boundaries between times and realities.

Five stories explore the hazards of contact with unfamiliar minds and societies. Beings that occupy human bodies, forbidden attraction and journeys through strange worlds place characters in situations where desire and survival depend on understanding forces beyond their experience.

A federal agent impersonates a criminal associate to infiltrate a Philadelphia counterfeiting operation and extract its engraver. His cover becomes precarious when he meets someone who knows the man he replaced, threatening the mission and his survival.

Stories written between 1987 and 1990 explore alternate histories and speculative worlds through a central imagined possibility. Silverberg’s introduction considers how changing technology reshapes fiction, including an account linking a different Biblical past with travel to other planets.

This volume pairs Silverberg's Born with the Dead with Damien Broderick's continuation. A husband's pursuit of his resurrected wife opens questions about transformed relationships, while the follow-up explores wider tensions between the living and an increasingly powerful revived population.

Silverberg gathers short fiction written between 1990 and 1995, continuing his exploration of imagined futures after decades of change in the genre. His introduction reflects on shifting publishing conditions and the persistence of storytelling within an increasingly unfamiliar world.

Seven stories explore thousands of years on Majipoor, from Earth's first settlers to growing cities and Lord Valentine's life. The collection expands the planet's history through separate encounters, giving readers perspectives beyond the events of the main novels.

An early science fiction tale considers the possibilities and problems of computers and musical synthesizers. Written while such machines were still experimental, it imagines how electronic technology might affect a creative activity closely associated with human skill.

This collection gathers Silverberg’s short fiction from 1995 through 2009, a later period of selective projects and new imaginative challenges. His introduction reflects on continuing to write into older age and the ideas that still draw him back.

Seventeen early stories revisit Silverberg’s beginnings in science fiction, with commentary on their creation. Future technicians, telepathic agents, unusual vacations and dangerous scientific experiments reveal characters adapting to unfamiliar circumstances while a young author develops his storytelling craft.

Hal Preston resents being transferred from the Space Patrol to postal deliveries, until his route to Ganymede encounters unexpected danger. Pirates and a colony surrounded by giant iceworms turn an apparently routine assignment into a test of his resolve.

Returning from five years in space, Rolf Dekker discovers that Earth’s people have embraced radical physical changes. His wish to fit into their society pushes him toward drastic alterations, forcing him to confront the distance between belonging and self-rejection.

After war destroys much of the world, the people who remain must confront the demands of survival. Their struggle tests human resilience in a devastated future, raising questions about what kind of people can endure such a catastrophe.

Eighteen stories unfold through the voices of unusual narrators, including animals, machines and beings outside ordinary human experience. Their accounts of desire, perception and survival invite readers to consider how an unfamiliar perspective can transform a seemingly recognizable world.

Seven adventures originally written for Super-Science Fiction send characters into dangerous encounters across distant worlds. Hostile aliens, deadly planets and unlikely survivors reveal the perilous situations facing people who venture beyond the safety of familiar territory.

These crime stories span decades of Silverberg’s writing, following criminals and their targets through schemes, capers and acts of revenge. Ambition, deception and dangerous opportunities expose the risks of trying to outwit others when money and personal grudges are at stake.

Laylah travels to the forbidden home of Earth’s alien conquerors, risking execution for entering their sacred world. To delay her death, she tells the emperor a story drawn from her own life and humanity’s struggle against its rulers.

Orpheus recounts a life shaped by music, his love for Eurydice and his voyage with Jason and the Argonauts. Knowing his fate in advance, he must still experience the losses and discoveries that give his songs their power.