Gorgon Planet E-Book

Robert Silverberg

• Herausgeber: Wildside Press
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Seitenzahl: 20

Beschreibung

Here is a rarity—Robert Silverberg's first professional story, which appeared in a British magazine in 1954. A strong adventure tale set on an alien world, it shows the strengths the then 18-year-old writer would hone over the coming decades, as he rose through the ranks to become one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time. Includes an introduction by Robert Silverberg.

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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

INTRODUCTION

GORGON PLANET, by Robert Silverberg

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

Copyright © 1954, 2022 by Robert Silverberg.

Originally published in Nebula Science Fiction #7 (February 1954).

Reprinted by permission of the author.

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Published by Wildside Press LLC.

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INTRODUCTION

All through my adolescence there was very little I wanted as badly as to see a story bearing my name appear in one of the science-fiction magazines. I was a passionate s-f fan, and in those days the magazines were the center of the s-f world; any member of the small cult-group that called itself “fandom” who sold a story to one of the professional magazines attained an increment of instant fame and prestige that can barely be comprehended today. (Among the writers who emerged from fandom in the 1940s via those gaudy-looking magazines were such people as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, and Arthur C. Clarke.) If I could sell a story, I told myself, it would in a single stroke free me from every aspect of teenage insecurity and admit me to the adult world of achievement and community respect.

In some ways, that’s very much what happened, since my debut as a professional writer coincided with my transition from awkward, uncertain adolescent to poised and confident adult. But it didn’t happen overnight and there were a few ironic complications along the way. For one thing, my first sale (barring a couple of semiprofessional things) was a novel that was to be published in hard covers, which to me meant that it would be far less visible and impressive to my friends in fandom than, say, a short story printed in the awesomely prestigious magazine Astounding Science Fiction