The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume Nine: The Millennium Express

But, for all that, I went on writing short fiction all through the seventh and eighth decades of my life, and though I’m not very active these days, I would still pay attention if someone were to approach me with an interesting and challenging short-story project, or if some absolutely irresistible story idea were to come into my mind. I will not, at this point, try to claim that the stories that are collected here are the last short stories I will ever write. Surely some editor, in the years ahead, will tickle my imagination with a proposal I can’t resist. But I doubt that will be happening very often; and, meanwhile, here’s the harvest of the fourteen years that began in 1995 — not an enormous number of stories, no, but stories nevertheless that I think are worth reading and reprinting.

— Robert Silverberg, from his Introduction

Contents:

• Introduction
• Diana of the Hundred Breasts
• Beauty in the Night
• Call Me Titan
• The Tree That Grew From the Sky
• The Church at Monte Saturno
• Hanosz Prime Goes to Old Earth
• The Millennium Express
• Travelers
• The Colonel Returns to the Stars
• The Eater of Dreams
• A Piece of the Great World
• Against the Current
• The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale
• Defenders of the Frontier
• The Prisoner
• Smithers and the Ghost of the Thar