Phases of the Moon: Stories from Six Decades
By Robert Silverberg

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All through my adolescence there was little I wanted as badly as to see a story bearing my name appear in one of the science-fiction magazines...

But even after making those 550 sales -- or 650, or 750, or however many it was -- I still have not lost touch with the adolescent boy within me, the one who bought those issues of Astounding Science Fiction and Thrilling Wonder Stories in the far-off 1940s and dreamed of being a writer some day, by which he meant selling a story or two to one of those magazines. Whenever I see my name on a magazine cover, he reacts with astonishment and delight. So now, looking back over my long career, bringing together a representative sampling of stories from each of the six decades -- so far -- in which my work has found publication, I shake my head in wonder at the way it all turned out, and give silent thanks to all.

-- Robert Silverberg

In addition to early efforts ("Road to Nightfall," "The Macauley Circuit") and classics ("Good News from the Vatican," and "Sailing to Byzantium," to name but two), Phases includes a small volume’s worth of introductions and memoirs.

Contents:

Introduction

One: The 1950s
Road to Nightfall
The Macauley Circuit
Sunrise on Mercury
Warm Man

Two: The 1960s
To See the Invisible Man
Flies
Passengers
Nightwings
Sundance

Three: The 1970s
Good News from the Vatican
Capricorn Games
Born with the Dead
Schwartz Between the Galaxies

Four: The 1980s
The Far Side of the Bell-Shaped Curve
The Pope of the Chimps
Needle in a Timestack
Sailing to Byzantium
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another

Five: The 1990s
Hunters in the Forest
Death Do Us Part
Beauty in the Night

Six: The 2000s
The Millennium Express
With Caesar in the Underworld

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