A collection of twenty classic stories from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction.

Needle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best -- intelligent, inventive, and visionary. This collection showcases his talent for thought-provoking science fiction, ranging in themes from time travel to space travel, the media to mortality.

In the titular story -- the basis for the feature film by Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley -- a jealous ex-husband warps time in a vindictive attempt to destroy his former wife's new marriage. Thirty-one identical sons have a shocking surprise for their mother in "There Was an Old Woman." The prophetic "The Pain Peddlers" depicts reality TV in a way that allows viewers to revel in a voyeuristic, adrenaline-fueled rush. Also included are Silverberg's Hugo Award-winning "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another," and the Locus Award winner "The Secret Sharer," a Joseph Conrad-inspired tale of a ship captain drawn into a strange alliance with a stowaway.

The New York Times Book Review hailed Silverberg as "the John Updike of science fiction," an author The Washington Post Book World states "seems capable of amazements beyond those of mere mortals." The stories in Needle in a Timestack unite us in our humanity, in the face of science, technology, and our own changing culture.

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