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(Now+N, Now-N) (Introduction)

Robert Silverberg

First published June 2021
Type Essay
Series Silverberg's Essays: Own Work


Untitled, unsigned introduction to the novelette.

Essay starts: "I am a dour and unsmiling sort of man who actually has a lively if dry sense of humor: no one survives decade after decade of professional writing, as I have, without a sense of humor."

Essay finishes: "I wrote this one in June of 1969, but it foreshadows the tone and sardonic approach I would be taking in the many stories I did in 1971, 1972, and 1973. It was written at the request of my old friend Harry Harrison for his anthology Nova, and appeared in the second volume of that series" [Source: PR# 834559]

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 2021 Cover Needle in a Timestack Gollancz / Orion Collection 319|319.1
June 2021 Cover Needle in a Timestack Gollancz / Orion Collection |274