Robert Silverberg
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Oct 10, 2026
speaker_4HOST
And finally, rounding out the sci-fi list is a more recent high-concept film, um, 2021's Needle in a Timestack, starring Leslie Odom Jr. and Cynthia Erivo.
speaker_3HOST
That's based on a Robert Silverberg short story, right?
speaker_4HOST
Yes.
speaker_4HOST
It is set in a near future where the ultra-wealthy take time travel vacations, which causes ripples and shifts in the timeline for normal people.
Norman RoseNARRATOR
They waited, and waited, but no one came.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
You have just heard X Minus One, presented by the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, which this month features Double Dare! by Robert Silverberg, which demonstrates that pride can lead to much worse than a fall.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
It can put a man out on a limb and keep him there.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Galaxy Magazine, on your newsstand today.
AC WilsonHOST
The utopia is actually an evolutionary dead end for the human soul.
speaker_1HOST
Which ties perfectly into Robert Silverberg's Sailing to Byzantium.
speaker_1HOST
The curator notes this was directly inspired by the W.
speaker_1HOST
B. Yeats poem of the same name.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
The end of The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn.
Paul HamptonNARRATOR
Bleekman's Planet by Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg, writing as Ivor Jorgensen.
Paul HamptonNARRATOR
This is a LibriVox recording.
Paul HamptonNARRATOR
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
Paul HamptonNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Bleekman's Planet by Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg Looking around cautiously, Mack Thornwald eased himself down from the window ledge where he had been crouching.
Paul HamptonNARRATOR
It was less than a ten-foot drop, but because of the pain in his left ankle, he didn't dare drop too heavily.
Paul HamptonNARRATOR
His right leg would have to take the brunt of the shock.
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Quarter ToneNARRATOR
The house sang softly and waited for the return of its masters.
Josh TeessmaHOST
It's all right.
Josh TeessmaHOST
Um, well, this is edited by Robert Silverberg, who we'll talk about in a minute.
Josh TeessmaHOST
Um, this is featuring, a collection featuring the likes of Robin Hobb-
DaveHOST
Yeah
Josh TeessmaHOST
...
Josh TeessmaHOST
Outlander lady.
Josh TeessmaHOST
Um, uh, Robert Silverberg himself has a short story from his Majipoor series.
Josh TeessmaHOST
Tad Williams with Otherland, Anne McCaffrey, Dragonriders of Pern.
Eileen KiersteadNARRATOR
Recording by Eileen Kirstead.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
Slaughter on Dorell IV by Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
This is a LibriVox recording.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Read by Dale Grothman.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
Fighting an alien champ was always risky business for an Earthman.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
So Fillmore decided he might pick up a pointer or two before the big slaughter on Dorell IV by Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
Larry Fillmore stared at his beer and mentally roasted his fight manager for the fiftieth time.
Jason KaufmanHOST
Jamie Perez is a co-founder of Stations.
Jason KaufmanHOST
Robert Silverberg was his first sci-fi love, and these days he'll take a day off work when Ann Leckie puts out a new book.
Jason KaufmanHOST
He lives and believes in Baltimore.
Jason KaufmanHOST
Adam Good is a co-founder of Stations.
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Jamie PerezGUEST
I don't understand how you can love sci-fi and think only hard sci-fi is sci-fi or only whatever is sci-fi.
Jamie PerezGUEST
Like...
Jamie PerezGUEST
if Adam grew up with Douglas Adams and I did a little too, I grew up with Robert Silverberg, which is a name you never hear.
Jamie PerezGUEST
Like every listener of your show is going to be like, who the hell is that? You know, like, but like Time of the Great Freeze, man, that was like, that was my sci-fi jump off point.
QuinnHOST
A story that asks the question, what happens when a world bathed in endless sunlight faces its first true night? Nightfall by Asimov is interesting because you can read two versions of it.
QuinnHOST
Nightfall was originally published as a short story in 1941 and then later adapted into a novel in 1990 with the help of Robert Silverberg.
QuinnHOST
Both versions have the same premise but differ vastly in scope and character depth.
QuinnHOST
The short story is only about 30 pages long, a good length for a short story, but the novel is easily over 300 pages.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Planetary prestige and their passage home are involved.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
The radio play adapts Robert Silverberg's short story, which appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction in November of 1956, about a year before this NBC broadcast, with William Welch supervising the adaptation and George Voutsas directing.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Ralph Camargo, Ivor Francis, Michael Ingram, and Harvey Hayes are heard in the cast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Now, back to the Golden Age of Radio.
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Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Read Willy Ley's article, as well as the many thought-provoking stories similar to tonight's tale of fiction based on facts of the future.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Galaxy Magazine, on your newsstand today.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Tonight, X Minus One has brought you Double Dare, a story from the pages of Galaxy written by Robert Silverberg and adapted for radio by William Welch.
Fred CollinsNARRATOR
Featured in our cast were Ralph Camargo as Marner, Ivor Francis as Cambridge, Michael Ingram as Plovash, and Harvey Hayes as the Consul.
Michael HansenNARRATOR
Welcome to a half hour of Mindwebs, short stories from the worlds of speculative fiction This is Michael Hansen.
Michael HansenNARRATOR
The MindWeb story this time comes from Robert Silverberg's collection Moon Ferns and Star Songs, published by Ballantine.
Michael HansenNARRATOR
This is After the Myths Went Home.
Michael HansenNARRATOR
For a while in those years, we were calling great ones out of the past to find out what they were like.
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Michael HansenNARRATOR
And we are alone beneath the frightful sky.
Michael HansenNARRATOR
And we are alone.
Michael HansenNARRATOR
You've heard After the Myths Went Home, a story by Robert Silverberg from his book Moon Ferns and Star Songs, published by Ballantine.
Michael HansenNARRATOR
This is Michael Henson.
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