Captive to the slave-trading colonists of Angola, young British seaman Andrew Battell longs for his home in the England of Elizabeth I, but increasingly finds himself enthralled by the occult arts of the Lord of Darkness.

Twenty-seven stories deal with immortality, intelligent dolphins, space travel, time travel, a robot pope, forced organ donorship, newspapers, from the future, extrasensory perception, and mutants

Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people's pain. He feeds off it, and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on Minner Burris, a space traveller whose body was taken apart by alien surgeons and then put back together again - differently. Burris' pain is constant. And so is that of Lona Kelvin, used by scientists to supply eggs for 100 children and then ruthlessly discarded. Only an emotional vampire like Chalk can see the huge audience eager to watch a relationship develop between these two damaged people. And only Chalk can make it happen. First published in 1967

Robert Silverberg has been nominated for, and won, more awards for his fiction than any other writer in the SF genre. This classic, now finally back in print, sweeps us -- and Clay, the main character -- into Earth's far-away future on a panoramic, billion-year journey. "Wildly generous with image and sensation and with sexuality."--"The New York Times." "Silverberg is one of SF's eminences."--"Brian W. Aldiss." "A surreal allegory...it remains my personal favorite and I recommend it wholeheartedly."--"Brian Stableford "