The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume Seven: We Are for the Dark
- Publication
- September 2012
About the Book
"The stories collected here, written between August of 1987 and May of
1990, demonstrate that I still believe in the classical unities. Of
course, what seems to us a unity now might not have appeared that way
when H.G. Wells was writing his wonderful stories in the nineteenth
century. Wells might have argued that my 'To the Promised Land' is built around two speculative fantastic assumptions, one that the Biblical
Exodus from Egypt never happened, the other that it is possible to send
rocketships to other worlds. But in fact we've sent plenty of
rocketships to other worlds by now, so only my story's alternative-world speculation remains fantasy today. Technically speaking the
space-travel element of the plot has become part of the given; it's the
other big assumption that forms the central matter of the story."
- Robert Silverberg, from his Introduction
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Dead Man’s Eyes
- Enter A Soldier. Later: Enter Another
- To The Promised Land
- Chip Runner
- A Sleep And A Forgetting
- In Another Country
- The Asenion Solution
- We Are For The Dark
- Lion Time In Timbuctoo
- A Tip On A Turtle
