I don't have much to say here. Silverberg is a fine writer. *A Time of Changes* was one of the first science fiction novels I ever read and I remember it fondly. *Hawksbill Station* follows Jim Barrett, a failed revolutionary exiled to a penal colony a billion years in the past. He and other ex-revolutionaries were sent to the Cambrian era by time machine, unable to return. The reader follows Barrett's flashbacks as we build up an understanding of what led to the event. We see the claustrophobic...

Silverberg is the latest author in my exploration of old-school science fiction writers outside the big four of Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, and Bradbury. *Hawksbill Station* was published in 1968, and I'm genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It's a quick read, but it packs a serious punch. The writing is clear and engaging, and thankfully, it avoids a lot of the sexism and racism that were all too common in early sci-fi.The premise is fascinating. The book is set in an alternate future wh...

My Thoughts on Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg::::::::In the year 2005, political dissidents aren't executed for treason; they're sent back in time one billion years into the past. The prisoners are stuck there. New physics have been discovered, and we can travel backwards through time but not forwards. The prisoners are all sent to Hawksbill Station. There, they can move around freely. They're sent goods from the future, aka UP FRONT. They live on trilobites and squid-like creatures. Mam...

Robert Silverberg's Hawksbill Station first appeared as a novella in the August 1967 issue of Galaxy magazine, edited by Frederik Pohl. It was a finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards that year, ultimately losing out to Philip Jose Farmer's Riders of the Purple Wage and Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man, respectively. (Personally, I would have chosen Roger Zelazny's Damnation Alley that year, but what do I know?). Silverberg later significantly expanded the story, and Doubleday released th...

7/10. Averaging out of the 30 or so books I've read by this author: 6/10. I read a lot of Silverberg as a kid. Alongside gems like "Time of Mutants" or "The Man in the Maze" (or even the Majipoor Cycle), he has some pretty average or downright bad books. This one, Hawksbill Station, is good. It's about a penal colony established in the Precambrian era by the US government. Obviously, there's time travel involved, but the important thing is the character who tries to change the status quo. Robe...

This was a fantastic read. I'm genuinely surprised to learn that Hawksbill Station is an expansion of a novella, because the additions blend in so seamlessly. I honestly couldn't distinguish between what originated in the novella and what was added for the novel.A book nearing fifty years old should feel dated, right? In some ways, it does. The Soviet branches of Marxism mentioned in Hawksbill Station feel incredibly anachronistic. I can't imagine anyone today finding them of historical interest...

Hawksbill Station was Robert Silverberg’s most Kilgore Troutian concept.Kilgore Trout was, of course, the recurring fictitious science fiction writer from Kurt Vonnegut’s canon, based loosely upon fellow writer Theodore Sturgeon. According to Vonnegut, Trout would come up with wild ideas, one after another, in a prolific if not profitable career.Silverberg, also a prolific but happily profitable writer, describes in Hawksbill Station, first published in 1967, a situation where political prisoner...

Take a look at those covers up there. They might not give away the whole story, but if you buy into the Sad Puppies' line, you'd expect a simple, exciting adventure—not something with hidden depths. Hear that, Silverberg? According to them, you guys weren't capable of writing anything more complicated than that, right?Note: The remainder of this review has been removed due to the changes in Goodreads' policy and its enforcement. You can find out why I made this choice here.In the meantime, you c...

Even though it's been over 45 years since I first read Robert Silverberg's **Hawksbill Station**, some scenes are as clear in my mind as if I read them yesterday. That's how powerful and vivid this classic, often included in collections, is. It first came out in the August '67 issue of "Galaxy" magazine, but I didn't notice it until the next year, when it was reprinted in a collection called "World's Best Science Fiction 1968." Silverberg later made his 20,000-word story into a full novel, which...

5.0 stars. I've said it before, but Robert Silverberg is one of those writers who has never disappointed me, and *Hawksbill Station* is certainly no exception. One of the things that's so impressive about Silverberg is that, other than the Majipoor series, he almost always does stand-alone stories, so his stories are always a unique experience. The breadth of his stories is amazing. This short novel (really a long novella) is about a group of political prisoners from a future United States who ...