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Member Posts: 24 Location: Virginia | Looking for some recommendations for Silverberg. I read Up the Line and loved it, couldn't put it down. Then couldn't care less about The World Inside past a few chapters. I read Dying Inside and thought it one of the best SF novels ever. Now I'm bored a few chapters into Tower of Glass. So, is he hit or miss? or sometimes easy vs sometimes hard to read? Or am I just stumbling around the works of a very eclectic and versatile author? Any relevant or irrelevant thoughts welcome. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 794 | Silverberg was very prolific. Perhaps you don't like his more prosaic works dealing with contemporary issues (like high rise living, probably better done by J. G. Ballard). Try "Downward to the Earth" and "The Gate of Worlds". If you are into fantasy you could try "Lord Valentine's Castle". | ||
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Uber User Posts: 39 | I think I have read a lot of Silverberg until I look at the list of works in the WWE database. Then I realize I have barely scratched the surface. Downward to the Earth is the best I have read, and it is very good indeed. For sheer weirdness you might try Thorns. I am not sure what it was about, but it was entertaining. I must have happened onto a trove of reprints of the pulpier novels he did in the fifties, because I have read a disproportionate amount of it. It is slight stuff, but with To Live Again he seems to have been hitting his stride. | ||
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Member Posts: 9 | I too loved "Dying Inside" and I didn't rate "Tower of Glass" too highly either although I did finish it. Although apparently his "golden" period was from the late 60's to the mid 70's but I find that even from this period his work can be variable. I would definitely recommend you read "The Book of Skulls" and "A Time of Changes". | ||
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