Twenty-four stories are included in this ambitious collection of Silverberg's work, each with an introduction by the author recollecting the time and place in which they were conceived. Winner of five Nebula Awards and four Hugos, Silverberg is one of the undisputed masters of science fiction. Contents: 1. A Sleep and a Forgetting 2. Against Babylon 3. Amanda and the Alien 4. Basileus 5. Chip Runner 6. Dancers in the Time-Flux 7. Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another [Time Gate] 8. Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory 9. Hannibal's Elephants 10. Hardware 11. Homefaring 12. House of Bones 13. Multiples 14. Sailing to Byzantium 15. Snake and Ocean, Ocean and Snake (variant of The Affair) 16. Sunrise on Pluto 17. Symbiont 18. The Asenion Solution 19. The Dead Man's Eyes 20. The Iron Star 21. The Pardoner's Tale 22. The Secret Sharer 23. To the Promised Land [Roma Eterna] 24. Tourist Trade

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