Pluto in the Morning Light Volume One To Be Continued

Here, from Hugo and Nebula award winner Robert Silverberg, author of “The Majipoor Trilogy” and Tom O’Bedlam, is a wide-ranging collection of stories that, together, provide stunning evidence of Robert Silverberg’s ability to make science fiction speak to the challenges of terrestrial life. In these twenty-five stories and two novellas—the remarkable “Feast of St. Dionysus” and “This is the Road”—the master of imaginative fiction brilliantly takes up the themes that were to typify the late sixties and early seventies when these stories first appeared—“those troubled times when there was no longer any safe zone in the world,” as the author writes in his introduction. In “Good News from the Vatican” a robot cardinal is elected Pope; in “The Wind and the Rain” a team of aliens works at refurbishing a polluted Earth; in “The Mutant Season” a homeowner takes exception when a family of mutants moves in next door; and in “Caught in the Organ Draft” young people are conscripted into a different and altogether terrifying type of service. A more varied, involving and thought-provoking collation would be hard to find. And it could only have sprung from the fertile mind of Robert Silverberg, surely one of the most important creative talents writing today.

by Robert Silverberg

Underwood Books · First published 1986 · 128 pages