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, br...

Silverberg is the latest in my exploration of old school science fiction authors outside the big four of Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, and Bradbury. This book was published in 1968, and I am surprised by how much I liked it. It is short, but packs a lot into a small space. The writing is clear and lively, and it avoids a lot of the sexism and racism that were endemic to a lot of early scifi.This set up is intriguing. The book is set in an alternative future where humans have the ability of time trav...

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. Mamma...

Hawksbill Station was published at novella length in the August issue of Frederik Pohl's Galaxy magazine in 1967. It was on the final best-of-the-year ballots for both the Hugo and Nebula awards, but lost to Philip Jose Farmer's Riders of the Purple Wage and Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man, respectively. (My pick in the category for that year would've been Roger Zelazny's Damnation Alley, so what do I know?) Silverberg expanded it significantly, and Doubleday published the novel version in har...

7/10. Media de los 30 libros leídos del autor : 6/10Leí mucho a Silverberg de chaval. Junto a joyas como "Tiempo de mutantes" o "El hombre en el laberinto" (o incluso la saga e Majipur) tiene libros normalitos o malos-malos. Este está bien.Va de una colonia penal situada en el Precámbrico por EEUU. Obviamente hay viajes en el tiempo pero lo importante es el personaje que trata de cambiar el status quo.Novela de finales de los 60 que refleja el pensamiento de gran parte de la juventud americana. ...

This was a great book. I am surprised to learn it is an expansion from a novella because the parts that were added fit in seamlessly. I couldn't begin to guess what was novella and what was only to be found in the novel.A book that is now almost fifty years old should be dated. In one respect it is. The Soviet branches of Marxism mentioned in the book are something I can't imagine being of even historical interest any more. No one these days debates them or takes them as a serious foundation upo...

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...

Look at the covers above. They may not tell you everything about the book, but if the Sad Puppies narrative is to be believed, they'll be a straightforward adventure yarn, instead of harbouring something more subversive. You hear that, Silverberg? You guys didn't write anything more complex than that, right?Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here.In the meantime, you can read the entire...

Although it had been over 45 years since I initially read Robert Silverberg's novella "Hawksbill Station," several scenes were as fresh in my memory as if I had read them just yesterday; such is the power and the vividness of this oft-anthologized classic. Originally appearing in the August '67 issue of "Galaxy" magazine, the novella did not come to my teenaged attention till the following year, when it was reprinted in a collection entitled "World's Best Science Fiction 1968." Silverberg later ...

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