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"...highly recommended for SF collections and for large US fiction collections."
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Book Description
One of the most prolific, honored, and widely read science fiction writers, Robert Silverberg has forged a professional career that began in the 1950s and has flourished in succeeding decades. After first gaining fame for his magazine fiction, Silverberg embraced the ideals and methods of literary science fiction in the late 1960s and crafted a number of novels marked by symbolism and irony. After a period of silence in the 1970s, he resumed his career. Despite the appeal of his novels, Silverberg's achievement still eludes easy assessment. This book offers a broad study of Silverberg's growth as a writer, following his career from his early apprenticeship period to his later, fully mature books. Examining not only his work but also the literary contexts that shaped him, Chapman captures well Silverberg's development as a writer.
About the Author
EDGAR L. CHAPMAN is Professor of English at Bradley University.
The Road to Castle Mount: The Science Fiction of Robert Silverberg, Vol. 82 FROM THE PUBLISHER
One of the most prolific, honored, and widely read science fiction writers, Robert Silverberg has forged a professional career that began in the 1950s and has flourished in succeeding decades. After first gaining fame for his magazine fiction, Silverberg embraced the ideals and methods of literary science fiction in the late 1960s and crafted a number of novels marked by symbolism and irony. After a period of silence in the 1970s, he resumed his career. Despite the appeal of his novels, Silverberg's achievement still eludes easy assessment. This book offers a broad study of Silverberg's growth as a writer, following his career from his early apprenticeship period to his later, fully mature books. Examining not only his work but also the literary contexts that shaped him, Chapman captures well Silverberg's development as a writer.
SYNOPSIS
Studies the evolution of Robert Silverberg's writings from the 1950s to the present.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Over the course of his career, Silverberg has won more Hugo and Nebula Awards than any other author. Chapman (English, Bradley U.) describes his apprenticeship in the 1950s, his rise to prominence on the new wave literary science fiction in the late 1960s, his decade of disillusionment with his audience, his return with in 1980, and his work and its reception by fans and critics through the 1998 . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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