BEST ROB SLVERBERG

Rating:
Summary: The first "The Best of Robert Silverberg" (1976)
Review: This was the first "The Best of Robert Silverberg" ever published, and it was published right after this writer's most fertile period. It includes 10 stories, ranging from "Road to Nightfall" (1954) to the 1971 Nebula Award winning "Good News from the Vatican" (1971). The book has a foreword by Barry Malzberg, who gives a good review of the work, and the importance of Robert Silverberg up to that point. Robert Silverberg himself does an introduction to his stories, which were taken from at least seven different collections. Two of the stories -"Hawksbill Station" and "Nightwings"- were later expanded to succesfull novels, Nightings also won a Hugo Award as a short story. There is yet another award-winner included: "Passengers", winner of the 1969 Nebula Award. But it is up to yo, the reader, to decide whether the award-winning stories are indeed better than the seven who did not. To the reader who has read more from Silverberg it is to say whether these stories are indeed 'The Best' that Robert Silverberg produced over that period, because he had some nineteen (!) collections done up to that point and I for myself at least found several who I dearly missed in this one. A definitive "The Best of Robert Silverberg" over that period compiled by me however would have some 30-40 odd stories, just too much for the average 'The Best of'.

Rating:
Summary: The first "The Best of Robert Silverberg" (1976)
Review: This was the first "The Best of Robert Silverberg" ever published, and it was published right after this writer's most fertile period. It includes 10 stories, ranging from "Road to Nightfall" (1954) to the 1971 Nebula Award winning "Good News from the Vatican" (1971). The book has a foreword by Barry Malzberg, who gives a good review of the work, and the importance of Robert Silverberg up to that point. Robert Silverberg himself does an introduction to his stories, which were taken from at least seven different collections. Two of the stories -"Hawksbill Station" and "Nightwings"- were later expanded to succesfull novels, Nightings also won a Hugo Award as a short story. There is yet another award-winner included: "Passengers", winner of the 1969 Nebula Award. But it is up to yo, the reader, to decide whether the award-winning stories are indeed better than the seven who did not. To the reader who has read more from Silverberg it is to say whether these stories are indeed 'The Best' that Robert Silverberg produced over that period, because he had some nineteen (!) collections done up to that point and I for myself at least found several who I dearly missed in this one. A definitive "The Best of Robert Silverberg" over that period compiled by me however would have some 30-40 odd stories, just too much for the average 'The Best of'.