In Volume 4 of his Collected Stories, Robert Silverberg selects the very best from his early work: writings from the Golden Age of science fiction. It is a feast of classic science fiction ideas shimmering in the new light of Silverberg's inventiveness and gift for storytelling. 'Absolutely Inflexible' is his first succesful attempt at the time-paradox theme; 'The Macauley Circuit' is an astonishingly far-sighted consideration of computer-generated probems; 'The Artifect Business' is a fascinating exampl of how archaeology has influenced Silverberg's writing, a story of coded haunting of the present...many worlds, shaped by the fertile imagination of one of science fiction's eminence.

book-pushed on me at our lovely local bookcrossing meetup. (To be fair, I did not resist too hard...).