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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.

Note: In Robert Silverberg's Introduction to this book he states that there are three completely different short story collections (with only a few double entries) of his that bear the name "Needle in a Timestack" and also a short story. The first collection came out in 1966 in the US, 1967 in the UK, the 2nd in 1979 and the 3rd in 2021.

Table of Contents:

• Needle In A Timestack
• There Was An Old Woman
• The Pain Peddlers
• The Sixth Palace
• In Entropy's Jaws
• Absolutely Inflexible
• This Is The Road
• The Pope Of The Chimps
• The Dead Man's Eyes
• Road To Nightfall
• Multiples
• Many Mansions
• (Now + N, Now - N)
• Enter A Soldier. Later: Enter Another
• The Reality Trip
• Chip Runner
• Call Me Titan
• Defenders Of The Frontier
• Ishmael In Love
• The Secret Sharer

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