Needle in a Timestack, Robert Silverberg
Needle in a Timestack, Robert Silverberg
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Needle in a Timestack
And Other Stories

Author: Robert Silverberg

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 24 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/24/2019

Synopsis

Needle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best—intelligent, inventive, and visionary. This collection showcases his talent for thought-provoking science fiction, ranging in themes from time travel to space travel, the media to mortality.

In the titular story—under development as a feature film by Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley—a jealous ex-husband warps time in a vindictive attempt to destroy his former wife's new marriage. Thirty-one identical sons have a shocking surprise for their mother in "There Was an Old Woman." The prophetic "The Pain Peddlers" depicts reality TV in a way that allows viewers to revel in a voyeuristic, adrenaline-fueled rush. Also included are Silverberg's Hugo Award–winning "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another," and the Locus Award winner "The Secret Sharer," a Joseph Conrad–inspired tale of a ship captain drawn into a strange alliance with a stowaway.

About Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction's most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth, and Lord Valentine's Castle. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. Silverberg is one of twenty-nine writers to have received that distinction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandy on January 19, 2016

Having read some two dozen novels by Robert Silverberg over the past couple of years, I recently decided that it was high time for me to see what the Grand Master has accomplished in the area of the shorter form. As if by serendipity, while shopping the other day at the Brooklyn sci-fi bookstore ext......more

Goodreads review by Craig on March 24, 2025

Needle in a Timestack is a collection of ten short fictions by Silverberg that was first published by Ballantine in 1966 with a trippy Richard Powers cover. It's confusing because when it was reprinted by Sphere in 1979 six of the original stories were replaced by others, and Ace reprinted that edit......more

Goodreads review by Tom on August 28, 2020

Needle in a Timestack (Robert Silverberg) - 5 Stars The Pain Peddlers (1963) - 5 Stars Passport to Sirius (1958) - 3.5 Stars Birds of a Feather (1958) - 5 Stars There Was an Old Woman (1958) - 4 Stars The Shadow of Wings (1963) - 3 Stars Absolutely Inflexible (1966) - 3.5 Stars His Brother's Weeper (......more

Goodreads review by Tom LA on October 06, 2018

Excellent and entertaining as always. Some short stories from the late 50s. I already knew a couple of them.......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on January 06, 2023

I haven't read any of this author's works since the 1980s and then primarily his Lord Valentine series. This collection of short stories doesn't past the test of time. Too many of the stories were so dated—primarily in their view of women—I found them offensive. And the author's introductions to eac......more

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