Robert Silverberg
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"Robert Silverberg" is a prolific American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo Award/Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, a SFWA Grand Master/Grand Master of SF.

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I thought they'd cast some interesting light on the beginning of my career, especially with the introductions I wrote for them. It was a real nostalgia trip, all right. As for picking the stories, I chose the ones that seemed still to stand up for modern readers, so long as they didn't expect state-of-the-art 21st-century narrative.

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I've been in the midst of the SF scene for more than 50 years. And I think I owe it to historians of the field to set down, piecemeal though it may be, my recollections of the era through which I've passed.

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