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[in order of first year of publication. Each entry includes later editions]
1975. Stochastic Man
1976. Shadrach in the Furnace
1984. Valentine Pontifex
1988. At Winter's End
1992. The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 1: Pluto In The Morning Light
1994. Hot Sky At Midnight

About the Author:
Robert Silverberg was born in New York in 1935. He sold his first novel while still a student at Columbia University, and has been a full-time writer since graduation. By 1994, he had published more than fifty novels, as well as serious works of history and archaeology
He has been nominated for more awards for his fiction than any other science fiction writer dead, or alive

• The Stochastic Man [top]
  First published by Victor Gollancz in 1975 and reprinted in 1976 by the Readers Union Book Club, hardcover, 230 pages
• Was originally published serially in a slightly different form in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Story: Lew Nichols is in the business of stochastic prediction. A mixture of sophisticated analysis and informed guesswork, it is the nearest approach late-twentieth century man can make to predicting the future. In Nichols' hands, it is a tool of almost uncanny accuracy and his expertise gains him an important place in the entourage of Paul Quinn, the ambitious and characteristic Mayor of the virtually ungovernable city of New York, whose sights are set on the Presidency in 2004. Effective though it is, there is nothing paranormal about stochastic prediction. Nichols guesses the future; he cannot actually see it. That's the extraordinary gift the reclusive Martin Carvajal offers to teach him-total clairvoyant knowledge of the future. Caught up in an obsessive desire to help Quinn into the White House, it is a chance Nichols is unable to resist, even though he can clearly see the effect on Carvajal of knowing in advance every act of his life, up to and including the moment of his death...

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• Shadrach in the Furnace [top]
  First published in the UK by Victor Gollancz, in 1976. Hardcover edition reprinted by Readers Union in 1977, 246pp

Story: Forty years in the future, mankind is united under a single government, but this is no Utopian world-state. the Virus War of the 1990s has loosed on the world a ferocious, genetically-transmitted endemic disease-the organ rot-from which the bulk of the population slowly dies. An antidote is available, but only the lucky few are assured of their supply. The ruler of mankind is the self-styled Genghis Mao, whose over-riding obsession is the promotion of scientific research that will develop ways of ensuring his continued survival. The most promising of these is Project Avatar, which seeks a way of transferring the electrical pattern of his mind to the brain of an unfortunate donor.

Shadrach Mordecai, Genghis Mao's trusted personal physician, is a vital cog in the great machine devoted to keeping the great leader alive. Linked to Genghis Mao by a network of electronic implants, Shadrach is virtually an extension of the dictator's body, able to sense and diagnose the first symptoms of malfunction. His position seems secure...until the man chosen for Project Avatar commits suicide, and he learns that the body Genghis Mao has now decided he would like to take over is his own.

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• Valentine Pontifex [top]
  Jacket illustration by Jim Burns
  First published in 1984 in Great Britain (1st UK Edition) by Victor Gollancz in hardback with dustjacket, 347pp, ISBN 0575034440

Story: This book is the final part of the trilogy after Lord Valentine's Castle and Majipoor Chronicles, stories from the planet Majipoor. In this final book, Majipoor is now established as the rightful and popular Coronal of Majipoor, but sooner or later he must reluctantly succed to the title of Pontifex and retire to the Labyrinth, leaving behind the colourful life of Castle Mount. The old Pontifex, Tyeveras, has held the title for generations, but is now almost wholly senile, kept alive only be immersion in a complex life-support chamber. Soon he must be allowed to die, but first there is a final challenge for Valentine to face, side-by-side with his chosen successor Hissune. A series of ecological blights begins to strike at Majipoor, threatening to turn a world of plenty into one plagued by starvation and despair. Once again the native Metamorphs are working to drive humans and other aliens from their world, and this time their challenge is even more formidable...

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• At Winter's End [top]
  First published in 1988 in Great Britain in hardback by Victor Gollancz with dustjacket, 404pp, ISBN 0575042737. Photo of Robert Silverberg by Shay Barsabe; Jacket Illustration by Nicholas Rodgers.
  British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data:
  Silverberg, Robert
  At winter's end.
  I. Title
  813'.54[F] PS3569.I472
  ISBN 0-575-04273-7

Storyline: Everyone on Earth for a million years or more had known that the death-stars were coming, that the Great World was doomed. One by one, they would crash down terribly from the skies, falling without mercy for thousands of years, bringing fire, darkness, dust, smoke, cold, and death: an endless winter of sorrows. Each of the peoples of Earth addressed its fate in its own fashion. The vegetals and the sapphire-eyes people knew that they would not survive, and they made their preparations accordingly. The mechanicals knew that they could not survive if they cared to, but they did not care to. The sea-lords understood that their day was done and they accepted that. The hijk-folk, who never yielded any advantage willingly, expected to emerge unharmed, and set about making certain of that. And the humans...
The humans, little groups of them, took refuge in underground cocoons, to await the end of the cataclysm. And when that day eventually came, groups like that led by Koshmar, with young Hresh at her side, emerged to find a new and very different world. It was a world in which remnants of Earth's former greatness were to be found, but also a world in which there were many dangers to be faced - old perils, like the hijk-folk, and new threats, such as strangely altered bands of other humans...

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• The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 1: Pluto In The Morning Light [top]
  Published in 1992 in Great Britain in paperback by Grafton, 396pp, ISBN 0586213694

Contents: This is the first in a five-volume series of books featuring the short stories of Robert Silverberg. This volume features work from the early 1980s and includes 15 stories, of which "Sailing to Byzantium" won the 1982 Nebula Award. Includes:
Introduction
Homefaring
Basileus
Dancers in the Time-Flux
Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory
Amanda and the Alien
Snake and Ocean
Ocean and Snake
Tourist Trade
Multiples
Against Babylon
Symbiont
Sailing to Byzantium
Sunrise on Pluto
Hardware
Hannibal's Elephants
Blindsight

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• Hot Sky At Midnight [top]
  First published in 1994 in Great Britain by HarperCollins in paperback, 388pp, ISBN 058621108x