Legends: Short Novels By The Masters Of Modern Fantasy edited by Robert Silverberg (Hardcover)

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author/Editor: Robert Silverberg
• Title: Legends: Short Novels By The Masters Of Modern Fantasy
• Publisher: ‎ Tor Books; First Edition (October 1998)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Library Binding – 715 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0312867875
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0312867874
• Item Weight: ‎ 2.5 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.56 x 2.1 x 9.6 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (Former library book; may include the markings and stickers associated from the library. May show signs of some minor discoloration on page edges). 
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (Mylar Library Dust Jacket)
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg gathered eleven of the finest writers in Fantasy to contribute to this collection of short novels. Each of the writers was asked to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series: from Stephen King's opening piece set in his popular Gunslinger universe to Robert Jordan's early look at his famed Wheel of Time saga, these stories are exceptionally well written and universally well told.

About the Author:

Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF. He has attended every Hugo Award ceremony since the inaugural event in 1953.

Silverberg was born January 15, 1935, to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York. A voracious reader since childhood, he began submitting stories to science fiction magazines during his early teenage years. He received a BA in English Literature from Columbia University, in 1956. While at Columbia, he wrote the juvenile novel Revolt on Alpha C (1955), published by Thomas Y. Crowell with the cover notice: "A gripping story of outer space". He won his first Hugo in 1956 as the "best new writer".

Silverberg received a Nebula award in 1986 for the novella Sailing to Byzantium, which takes its name from the poem by William Butler Yeats; a Hugo in 1987 for the novella Gilgamesh in the Outback, set in the Heroes in Hell universe of Bangsian Fantasy; a Hugo in 1990 for Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Silverberg in 1999, its fourth class of two deceased and two living writers, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 21st SFWA Grand Master in 2005.

Silverberg has been married twice. He and Barbara Brown married in 1956, separated in 1976, and divorced a decade later. Silverberg and science fiction writer Karen Haber married in 1987. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before the age of 30, Silverberg was independently wealthy through his investments and once owned the former mansion of New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.