With an introduction by Neil Gaiman: Once a hero, now a pariah, Richard Muller is humanity's last hope Richard Muller was an honorable diplomat who braved unimaginable dangers to make contact with the first-known race of intelligent aliens. But those aliens left a mark on him: a psychic wound that emanates a telepathic miasma his fellow humans can neither cure nor endure. Muller is exiled to the remote planet of Lemnos, where he is left, deeply embittered, at the heart of a deadly maze . . . until a new alien race appears, seemingly intent on exterminating humanity. Only Muller can communicate with them, due to the very condition that has made him an outcast. But will Muller stick his neck out for the people who so callously rejected him? "[The Man in the Maze] is courageous, exploring new territory, with one foot in the New Wave camp, [but] it is still mindful of its roots. From the past of SF we get the strains of Space Opera, replete with incomprehensible aliens and mysterious artefacts." -From the introduction by Neil Gaiman "One of science fiction's modern masters . . . his words and his work have shaped the whole direction of the field." -Chicago Sun-Times "Robert Silverberg's versatile, skeptical intelligence controls a lavish and splendid imagination." -Ursula K. Le Guin "Done Silverberg's way, science fiction is a fine art." -Associated Press Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction's most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth, and Lord Valentine's Castle. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. Silverberg is one of twenty-nine writers to have received that distinction.
Show moreWith an introduction by Neil Gaiman: Once a hero, now a pariah, Richard Muller is humanity's last hope Richard Muller was an honorable diplomat who braved unimaginable dangers to make contact with the first-known race of intelligent aliens. But those aliens left a mark on him: a psychic wound that emanates a telepathic miasma his fellow humans can neither cure nor endure. Muller is exiled to the remote planet of Lemnos, where he is left, deeply embittered, at the heart of a deadly maze . . . until a new alien race appears, seemingly intent on exterminating humanity. Only Muller can communicate with them, due to the very condition that has made him an outcast. But will Muller stick his neck out for the people who so callously rejected him? "[The Man in the Maze] is courageous, exploring new territory, with one foot in the New Wave camp, [but] it is still mindful of its roots. From the past of SF we get the strains of Space Opera, replete with incomprehensible aliens and mysterious artefacts." -From the introduction by Neil Gaiman "One of science fiction's modern masters . . . his words and his work have shaped the whole direction of the field." -Chicago Sun-Times "Robert Silverberg's versatile, skeptical intelligence controls a lavish and splendid imagination." -Ursula K. Le Guin "Done Silverberg's way, science fiction is a fine art." -Associated Press Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction's most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth, and Lord Valentine's Castle. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. Silverberg is one of twenty-nine writers to have received that distinction.
Show moreRobert Silverberg (b. 1935) sold his first science fiction stories
to the lower-grade pulps in the mid-fifties, moved swiftly to the
three prestigious magazines (ASTOUNDING, GALAXY and THE MAGAZINE OF
FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION) and as his style deepened and themes
expanded in through the next reached the first rank of science
fiction writers. He is regarded as the greatest living writer of
science fiction, an SFWA Grandmaster, ex-President (in the 1960' s)
of that organization, winner of five Nebulas, four Hugos and many
other domestic and foreign awards. Among his famous novels are
DYING INSIDE, THE BOOK OF SKULLS, DOWNWARD TO THE EARTH, A TIME OF
CHANGES; his novella BORN WITH THE DEAD (1974) is perhaps the
finest work of that length published within the genre. Shifting to
a predominating fantasy in the late 1970's (LORD VALENTINE' S
CASTLE and the attendant Majipoor Series), Silverberg continued to
write science fiction and won a Nebula in 1986 for the novella
SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, and Hugos for the novelettes GILGAMESH IN THE
OUTBACK and ENTER A SOLDIER: LATER, ENTER ANOTHER. He was editor of
the long-running original anthology series New Dimensions and of
important reprint anthologies such as THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF
FAME, ALPHA and THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF MODERN SCIENCE
FICTION.
Neil Gaiman is the celebrated author of books, graphic novels,
short stories, films, and television for readers of all ages. Some
of his most notable titles include the highly lauded #1 New York
Times bestseller Norse Mythology; the groundbreaking and
award-winning Sandman comic series; The Graveyard Book (the first
book ever to win both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals); American
Gods, winner of many awards and recently adapted into the
Emmy-nominated Starz TV series (the second season slated to air in
2019); The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which was the UK's
National Book Award 2013 Book of the Year. Good Omens, which he
wrote with Terry Pratchett a very long time ago (but not quite as
long ago as Don't Panic) and for which Gaiman wrote the screenplay,
will air on Amazon and the BBC in 2019.
Author photo by Beowulf Sheehan
"[The Man in the Maze] is courageous, exploring new territory, with one foot in the New Wave camp, [but] it is still mindful of its roots. From the past of SF we get the strains of Space Opera, replete with incomprehensible aliens and mysterious artefacts." --From the introduction by Neil Gaiman "One of science fiction's modern masters . . . his words and his work have shaped the whole direction of the field." --Chicago Sun-Times "Robert Silverberg's versatile, skeptical intelligence controls a lavish and splendid imagination." --Ursula K. Le Guin "Done Silverberg's way, science fiction is a fine art." --Associated Press
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