FORGOTTEN BOOKS #390: EARLY DAYS: MORE TALES FROM THE PULP ERA By Robert Silverberg

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Back in 2006, Subterranean Press (one of my favorite small press publishers) brought out In the Beginning: Tales From the Pulp Era by Science Fiction writer Robert Silverberg. Silverberg wrote a ton of SF back in the 1950s and Subterranean decided to collect some of it. Now, Subterranean Press has just published a companion volume, Early Days, with more stories from Robert Silverberg’s early writings. Granted, Silverberg developed into a marvelous writer in the next decade. But these stories from the 1950s show his talent and his affection for the genre. I enjoyed this nostalgic trip back to my younger days when I first read these stories with delight!
TALBE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction
The Inquisitor
The Ultimate Weapon
Harwood’s Vortex
Quick Freeze
Six Frightened Men
Puppets Without Strings
A Time For Revenge
Housemaid No. 103
Rescue Mission
Planet of Parasites
Slaves of the Tree
Frontier Planet
The Aliens Were Haters
The Traders
Waters of Forgetfulness
You Do Something to Me
There’s No Place Like Space!

15 thoughts on “FORGOTTEN BOOKS #390: EARLY DAYS: MORE TALES FROM THE PULP ERA By Robert Silverberg

  1. Jeff Meyerson

    Great minds think alike! I’m more than halfway through this now (doling out one a day) and enjoying them very much. As usual, Silverberg’s introductions are a history lesson and almost worth the cost of the book itself. (I have the Kindle edition.)

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  2. Wolf Böhrendt

    Yes, those early stories by “Bob” were really interesting (his later work too of course) – and now for a little bragging. These are the books by Bob that I own (code1 means novel, 3 is a collection of stories):
    1A TIME OF CHANGES = ZEIT DER WANDLUNGEN
    1ACROSS A BILLION YEARS (JUVENILE)
    1AT WINTER’S END
    1THE BOOK OF SKULLS = BRUEDERSCHAFT DER UNSTERBLICHEN
    1COLLISION COURSE = SCHIEDSGERICHT DER STERNE
    1CONQUERORS FROM THE DARKNESS (JUVENILE)
    1THE DAWNING LIGHT * RANDALL GARRETT = NIDOR ERWACHT
    1DOWNWARD TO THE EARTH = DIE MYSTERIEN VON BELZAGOR
    1DYING INSIDE = ES STIRBT IN MIR
    1THE FACE OF THE WATERS
    1GATE OF WORLDS (JUVENILE)
    1GILGAMESH THE KING (FANTASY)
    1HAWKSBILL STATION = THE ANVIL OF TIME = VERBANNTE DER EWIGKEIT
    1HOT SKY AT MIDNIGHT
    1INVADERS FROM EARTH = WE THE MARAUDERS = GRIFF NACH DEM GANYMED
    1KINGDOMS OF THE WALL
    1LEST WE FORGET THEE, EARTH (AS K C KNOX)
    1LORD OF DARKNESS (HISTORICAL NOVEL)
    1LORD VALENTINES CASTLE = KRIEG DER TRAEUME
    1LOST RACE OF MARS (JUVENILE)
    1THE LONGEST WAY HOME
    1THE MAN IN THE MAZE = EXIL IM KOSMOS = DER MANN IM LABYRINTH
    1THE MASKS OF TIME = VORNAN 19 = GAST AUS DER ZUKUNFT
    1MASTER OF LIFE AND DEATH = MACHT UEBER LEBEN UND TOD
    1THE MUTANT SEASON * KAREN HABER
    1NEEDLE IN A TIMESTACK
    1NIGHTWINGS = SCHWINGEN DER NACHT
    1ONE OF OUR ASTEROIDS IS MISSING (AS CALVIN M KNOX)
    1THE PLOT AGAINST EARTH (AS C.KNOX) = DIE VERSCHWOERUNG GEGEN DIE ERDE
    1PROJECT PENDULUM (JUVENILE)
    1THE QUEEN OF SPRINGTIME (WINTER’S END 2) = THE NEW SPRINGTIME
    1RECALLED TO LIFE = DIE WIEDERERWECKER
    1REGAN’S PLANET = REGANS SATELLIT
    1THE SECOND TRIP = DER ZWEITE TRIP
    1THE SEED OF EARTH = DIE KOLONISTEN TERRAS
    1SHADRACH IN THE FURNACE = SCHADRACH IM FEUEROFEN
    1THE SHROUDED PLANET * RANDALL GARRETT = DER VERBORGENE PLANET
    1THE SILENT INVADERS
    1SON OF MAN
    1STARMAN’S QUEST = DIE STERNE RUECKEN NAEHER (JUVENILE)
    1STEPSONS OF TERRA
    1THE STOCHASTIC MAN = DER SEHER
    1THORNS = DER GESANG DER NEURONEN
    1THOSE WHO WATCH = BEOBACHTER AUS DEM ALL = UFOS UEBER DER ERDE
    1THE TIME HOPPERS = FLUCHT AUS DER ZUKUNFT
    1THE TIME OF THE GREAT FREEZE (JUVENILE)
    1TO LIVE AGAIN = DIE SEELENBANK = NOCH EINMAL LEBEN
    1TO OPEN THE SKY = DAS HEILIGE ATOM = OEFFNET DEN HIMMEL
    1TO THE LAND OF THE LIVING (FANTASY)
    1TOM O’BEDLAM
    1TOWER OF GLASS = KINDER DER RETORTE
    1UP THE LINE = ZEITPATROUILLE
    1VALENTINE PONTIFEX
    1THE WORLD INSIDE = EIN GLUECKLICHER TAG IM JAHRE 2381
    1WORLD’S FAIR, 1992 (EXPANDED FROM : REGAN’S PLANET)
    1STARBORNE
    1THE ALIEN YEARS
    3THE BEST OF ROBERT SILVERBERG
    3BEYOND THE SAFE ZONE
    3BORN WITH THE DEAD = MIT DEN TOTEN GEBOREN
    3CAPRICORN GAMES = STEINBOCK-SPIELE
    3THE CONGLOMEROID COCKTAIL PARTY
    3THE CUBE ROOT OF UNCERTAINTY = IM SCHATTEN DUNKLER FLUEGEL
    3EARTH’S OTHER SHADOW = DER ERDE ANDERER SCHATTEN
    3THE FEAST OF ST DIONYSUS
    3GODLING, GO HOME!
    3THE MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES = DIE MAJIPOOR – CHRONIKEN
    3NEUTRAL PLANET = DER NEUTRALE PLANET
    3NEXT STOP, THE STARS = DER HELD DES UNIVERSUMS
    3THE SHORES OF TOMORROW = UFER VON MORGEN
    3THE SONGS OF SUMMER
    3SUNDANCE
    3UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY = JETZT : PLUS MINUS
    3VALLEY BEYOND TIME
    3WORLD OF A THOUSAND COLORS
    3DIMENSION THIRTEEN

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