History Creator / RobertSilverberg

Robert Silverberg ("Silverbob" to his friends[[note]]often spelled "[=AgBob=]"--"Ag" is the chemical symbol for silver[[/note]], born January 15, 1935) is an enormously prolific science fiction and fantasy writer, and winner of multiple UsefulNotes/{{Hugo|Award}} and UsefulNotes/{{Nebula Award}}s.

After briefly retiring in the mid-seventies for health and personal reasons, Silverberg returned in 1980 with his smash hit, ''Lord Valentine's Castle'', the first book of the ''Literature/MajipoorSeries'', which now has over half a dozen novels and many short stories. He continues to write a wide variety of SF. In 2004, he was named a [[UsefulNotes/DamonKnightMemorialGrandMasterAward SFWA Grand Master]].

* ''[[Literature/DangerousVisions Flies]]''
* ''Literature/UpTheLine''
* ''Literature/TheFurtherAdventuresOfBatman'' (contributed "Literature/BatmanInNighttown" with co-writer Creator/KarenHaber)
* ''Literature/GreatScienceFictionOfTheTwentiethCentury''
* ''Literature/MajipoorSeries''
* ''Literature/MindToMind''
* ''Literature/Nightfall1990'', co-written with Creator/IsaacAsimov.
* ''Literature/OurLadyOfTheSauropods''
* ''Literature/ThePositronicMan'', co-written with Creator/IsaacAsimov.

* ''Literature/RomaEterna''
* ''Literature/ScienceFiction101''
* ''Literature/TheScienceFictionHallOfFameVolumeOne''

* ''Literature/TheWorldInside''
* ''Literature/WorldsImagined''

* IntelligentGerbil: The Nildoror in ''Downward to the Earth'' are basically sentient elephants [[spoiler:who, for spiritual reasons, become sentient bear/tapir creatures every few years]].

* EyelessFace: Victor Farkas in ''Hot Sky at Midnight''
* HollowWorld: ''Across A Billion Years''

* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Or sometimes, through the eyes of dolphins [[spoiler:or empathic super-baboons]].

* CameBackWrong: in ''Recalled to Life''
* CasualTimeTravel: Deconstructed in "Needle in a Timestack"--with no system of TimePolice, one narcissist with relationship issues manages to ruin a ''lot'' of lives.

* MarkOfShame: In the short story "To See The Invisible Man", a man is punished for "coldness" by having a mark affixed to his forehead so everyone else will know to shun him.

* NoEnding: ''Literature/UpTheLine'' ends with the hero [[spoiler:hiding from the Time Service in an obscure era where with any luck they'll never find him. He knows however that his respite is only temporary, since instead of killing him directly they can ''cause him to never have existed in the first place'', and even as he speculates this, his narration — just as he predicted — is cut off short in mid-sentence]].

* OneSteveLimit: In ''The Alien Years,'' a rugged retired colonel named Anson founds a self-sustaining community of rugged survivors on his ranch near LA. Many of his descendants are named Anson, making it hard to tell them apart. (It doesn't help that they all have the same role in their community, and all act the same.)

* RingWorldPlanet: a concave world, in ''Across a Billion Years''

* TimePolice: The Time Patrol in ''Literature/UpTheLine''.

* TranslationConvention: Explicitly pointed out in the foreword to ''Nightfall''

* {{Xenofiction}}: Played with a lot.

* ExtraDigits: In ''Across A Billion Years'', the protagonist's LoveInterest Jan Mortenson has six toes on both feet, 40 teeth, and some other minor differences from humans due to being a half-blood (three-quarters human and one quarter alien). The protagonist sees this as a CharmPoint.