“The ideal science-fiction short story should amaze as well as delight,” says Robert Silverberg in the Introduction to his latest volume of short stories. And indeed that is just what America’s master of imaginative fiction does in this collection of stories written between 1980 and 1982 for such magazines as Omni, Playboy, Twilight Zone, Beyond, Penthouse, and Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. In sixteen brilliantly executed works of the imagination, Robert Silverberg makes fantasy as real and accessible as the mundane world of mortals. With boldly inventive plots, he creates characters as moving as those of any superlative fiction writer. From time travelers who sightsee at history’s debacles, to research chimps who imitate their keepers to the point of inventing religion, complete with the sacrifice of their peers, let Robert Silverberg lead you into his gripping, stirring universe.