Promotional Information

* 'Ambitious and disturbing' Analog * With Thorns Robert Silverberg found his voice and began one of the most remarkable and sustained bursts of creativity in sf history * 'Entertaining and enjoyable...refreshingly unpretentious' Visions of Tomorrow * 'Very well constructed and executed...careful prose, discerning sympathy and tight control' M. John Harrison

About the Author

Robert Silverberg was born in 1935 and began to write while studying for his BA at Columbia University. He is one of the most prolific of all sf writers and among his many fine novels are Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth, The Stochastic Man and Shadrach in the Furnace.