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Originally Posted by Addy  I was just going to the author section to check out the Robert Silverberg discussions when I realized there is NO forum dedicated to the man. Are you guys nuts?  The man was a freaking genius. A brilliant stylist, great character writer, and he walked like no one else the fine line between SF and Fantasy. |
Ehmm...
was? Do you know something I don't? Admittedly I haven't seen Silver Bob since Worldcon in Glasgow, 2005, but he was certainly in the best of health then.
No, I do know what you mean -- he's been writing SF for so long it's easy to think of him only in terms of being a 'past' great, when actually he's still writing today.
In my humble opinion, Bob Silverberg produced his finest work in a narrow band of years from the late 60s to the early/mid-70s.
Nightwings, Thorns, Downward to the Earth, The Book of Skulls, Dying Inside, and many other great books emerged during that period. He'd written some good work before that and has produced some since, but nothing to compare with the consistantly high quality of the classics that came out during those years.