Robert Silverberg
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Robert Silverberg (born 15 January 1935 is a prolific author best known for writing science fiction, a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
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- Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.
- Introduction to New Dimensions 1, edited by Robert Silverberg
- Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.
- "Sounding Brass, Tinkling Cymbal" in Hell's Cartographers (1975) edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison
[edit] Nightwings (1968)
- It is my craft and my science to Watch. It is yours to jeer. Each of us to our specialty.
- Chapter 1
- I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?
- Chapter 4
- To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.
- Chapter 5
[edit] Up the Line (1969)
- Ignorance can’t be pardoned. Only cured.
- Chapter 4
[edit] Born with the Dead (1974)
- “Moas aren’t very bright,” Gracchus answers. “That’s one good reason why they became extinct.”
- Architecturally, the town looked like the worst of all possible cheap-and-sleazy tract developments, but the psychic texture it projected was even more depressing, more like that of one of those ghastly retirement communities, one of the innumerable Leisure Worlds or Sun Manors, those childless joyless retreats where colonies of that other kind of living dead collected to await the last trumpet.
- He didn’t have to observe the niceties of etiquette when talking to a computer.
- Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody’s thought it.
[edit] Hot Times in Magma City (1995)
- All page numbers from the story included in the mass market paperback edition "Year's Best SF" edited by David G. Hartwell
- The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.
- p. 56
- I don't know, Mattison thinks. That’s cool. I don't know, and I hereby give myself permission not to know, and to hell with it.
- p. 104
[edit] The Emperor and the Maula (2007)
- All page numbers from the story included in the mass market paperback edition "The New Space Opera" edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
- Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.
- p. 443
- I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.
- p. 463
- Not all lawyers are annoying. Some are dead.
- p. 476
- Never pass by a chance to shut up.
- p. 477
