Robert Silverberg has been a professional writer since 1955, the year before he graduated from Columbia University, and has published more than a hundred books and close to a thousand short stories. His books and stories have been translated into forty languages. Among his best-known novels are LORD VALENTINE’S CASTLE, DYING INSIDE, THE BOOK OF SKULLS, NIGHTWINGS, THE WORLD INSIDE, and DOWNWARD TO THE EARTH.

His collaboration with Isaac Asimov, The Bi-Centennial Man, was made into a movie starring Robin Williams.

He is a many-time winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards, was Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention in Heidelberg, Germany in 1970, was named to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2004 was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which he is a past president.

Silverberg has also been the editor of dozens of science fiction and fantasy anthologies including THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME. In addition, he has written archaeological, historical, and scientific nonfiction. He is currently a columnist for ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION magazine.

Silverberg was born in New York City, but he and his wife Karen have lived for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area. They and an assortment of cats share a sprawling house of unusual architectural style, surrounded by exotic plants.
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Robert Silverberg has been a professional writer since 1955, the year before he graduated from Columbia University, and has published more than a hundred books and close to a thousand short stories. His books and stories have been translated into forty languages. Among his best-known novels are LORD VALENTINE’S CASTLE, DYING INSIDE, THE BOOK OF SKULLS, NIGHTWINGS, THE WORLD INSIDE, and DOWNWARD TO THE EARTH.

His collaboration with Isaac Asimov, The Bi-Centennial Man, was made into a movie starring Robin Williams.

He is a many-time winner of the Hugo and Nebula a...
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