An alien being is found on an asteroid which gladly answers any question it is asked. But will it be for good or for bad for humanity to have every question readily...
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A robot, like a computer, is a machine that follows the instructions it is given. But how is it to deal with something it doesn’t recognize or about which it has no instructions? If it is anything like the caretaker robot in W. R. Thompson’s...
The value of an experience is not necessarily measured in conventional...
Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in...
For Seattle detective Joanne Walker, spring is about new beginnings. She's mastered her shamanic abilities (mostly), survived a cannibalistic serial killer (barely) and now she's facing the biggest challenge of her career — attending a dance...
From Robert Silverberg’s “Earthmen and Strangers” anthology, 1966:
The German word “gestalt” means “shape” or “pattern,” but it also has the sense of “group” or “formation.” The science-fictional concept of the gestalt mind...
From Robert Silverberg’s “Earthmen and Strangers” anthology, 1966:
Eric Frank Russell is a towering Englishman whose first science-fiction stories were published in 1937. In the decades since then he has written dozens of notable short...
From Robert Silverberg’s “Earthmen and Strangers” anthology, 1966:
Damon Knight is a slender, soft-spoken man with a deceptively mild smile. He seems gentle and relaxed, but behind the tranquil exterior there seethes a fiercely active...
From Robert Silverberg’s “Earthmen and Strangers” anthology, 1966:
When human beings begin to encounter strangers in the universe, conflict is likely to erupt. Earthmen, by and large, are an aggressive sort of people, and it would not...
From Robert Silverberg’s “Earthmen and Strangers” anthology, 1966:
The Budrys story depicts meek, peaceful alien beings, intelligent but simple. Now we meet a very different sort of creature: a ravenous beast out of nightmare, rippling...