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First-Person Singularities: Stories
| Author: | Robert Silverberg |
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Three Rooms Press, 2017 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
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Synopsis
First-Person Singularities, stories by science fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg, features eighteen tales written over the course of his forty-year career, all told in the first-person singular. Inspired by W. Somerset Maugham's Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular, a fiercely realist collection from the 1930s, Silverberg takes on the challenge, offering up his own unique sci-fi twist and "running the gambit of singularity."
Every story in First-Person Singularities offers a one-of-a-kind narrator: a dolphin feeling the pangs of love for a human being; a computer eager to convince us of its sanity; a Greek god who has surreptitiously survived into modern times; an alien visitor living in disguise in a New York City hotel. Even a pudgy, timid Henry James gets the Silverberg treatment as the witness/narrator of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds! Each story features a special introduction by Silverberg himself, providing the inside scoop on his experience writing for and publishing with the greatest science fiction magazines of the past and present.
Table of Contents
- The "I"s of Robert Silverberg - essay by John Scalzi
- Foreword - essay
- Ishmael in Love - (1970) - short story
- Going Down Smooth - (1968) - short story
- The Reality Trip - (1970) - short story
- The Songs of Summer - (1956) - short story
- The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James - (1996) - novelette
- Push No More - (1972) - novelette
- House of Bones - (1988) - short story
- Call Me Titan - (1997) - novelette
- Our Lady of the Sauropods - (1980) - short story
- There Was an Old Woman - (1958) - short story
- The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV - (1974) - short story
- Caliban - (1972) - short story
- Passengers - (1968) - short story
- Now Plus N, Now Minus N - novelette
- The Iron Star - (1987) - novelette
- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame - (1973) - short story
- The Secret Sharer - (1987) - novella
- To See the Invisible Man - (1963) - short story
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