"Happy 90th Birthday, Robert Silverberg!"

[Lynn McGuire]

"Happy 90th Birthday, Robert Silverberg!"

https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1i26nrz/happy_90th_birthday_robert_silverberg/

"As the title says, one of our most historically important writers, SFWA
Grand Master Robert Silverberg, is 90 today. Congratulations to him for
continuing to live in the future. He was yet another sf fan who turned
pro. His work as a writer and editor has significantly improved the
field of sf as literature. Thank you, Mr. Silverberg! Be well!"

Lynn

[Lenona]

I knew him, as a kid, for "The Lost Race of Mars." (He really should
have set that in the 22nd century, IMO. Or the 23rd.) He also wrote a
lot of nonfiction, for those who don't know.

What I posted on his 80th birthday:

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.sf.written/c/9njGlro_DF0/m/uOc-w89QQasJ

Excerpt:

"The Great Doctors" (nonfiction) is still intriguing even today, IMO.
That's where I found out that the myth of the medical demigod Asclepius
may have been based on a real man from circa 1400 B.C.!

[Tony Nance]

Post by Lenona
I knew him, as a kid, for "The Lost Race of Mars." (He really should
have set that in the 22nd century, IMO. Or the 23rd.) He also wrote a
lot of nonfiction, for those who don't know.
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.sf.written/c/9njGlro_DF0/m/uOc-
w89QQasJ
"The Great Doctors" (nonfiction) is still intriguing even today, IMO.
That's where I found out that the myth of the medical demigod Asclepius
may have been based on a real man from circa 1400 B.C.!

When I was roughly 11 years old, I read my first two sf books for "older
readers"[1], one of which was Silverberg's "Planet of Death"[2]. I
probably read it 4-5 times that year.

Tony
[1] It was in that section of the school library.

[2] The other one being Lester del Rey's "Tunnel Through Time", which I
learned many years later was probably written by Paul Fairman, working
from Lester's outline and/or guidance.