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Reflections and Refractions: Thoughts on Science-Fiction, Science, and Other Matters

Reflections and Refractions: Thoughts on Science-Fiction, Science, and Other Matters

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book changed my life.
Review: I discovered Robert Silverberg's work while browsing the library. I was a book called The Book of Skulls. I thought it looked interesting so I took it home and read it. I haven't looked back since. I have read nearly everything I can find by this wonderful man. That brings me to this book. When I finished this book, I had reached a turning point in my life. I began reading Golden Age SF. It really bothers me when younger people say why should I read that? A bunch a dead guys wrote that smelly stuff (since most/nearly all SF was in the pulps). I have read Cliff Simak, Lewis Padgett (who is really C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner), Robert A. Heinlein, Lester del Rey, John W. Campbell (Night is beautiful), A.E. van Vogt, and many others, and I must say, though some is extremely corny (The Vault of the Beast by van Vogt..."Ha! We're going to take over mankind!), it provided much of the richness that is now in the field. Before reading Reflections and Refractions, I had no idea about this other world. Now I have begun reading about the authors themselves, and the editors, and definitely believe my life is fuller because the great Golden Age.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Future Grand Master of Science Fiction
Review: This is a good book for anybody who reads a lot of science fiction/fantasy and has a real interest in the people who write it. Robert Silverberg is an author who will be given the Grand Master award from SFWA in the future. His novels like Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, and A Time of Changes are classics of the field. Even some of his later works like The Face of the Waters and The Alien Years show signs of greatness.

But, this book is a collection of essays that RS has written over the years. They show us inside his thinking process. He also tells us about the world of an SF writter and about the other personalities who make up the field.

Good book for people interested in the author and his work.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Future Grand Master of Science Fiction
Review: This is a good book for anybody who reads a lot of science fiction/fantasy and has a real interest in the people who write it. Robert Silverberg is an author who will be given the Grand Master award from SFWA in the future. His novels like Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, and A Time of Changes are classics of the field. Even some of his later works like The Face of the Waters and The Alien Years show signs of greatness.

But, this book is a collection of essays that RS has written over the years. They show us inside his thinking process. He also tells us about the world of an SF writter and about the other personalities who make up the field.

Good book for people interested in the author and his work.


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