The Cube Root of Uncertainty
First edition | |
Author | Robert Silverberg |
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Cover artist | Anthony Sini |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Macmillan Publishing |
Publication date | 1970 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 239 |
OCLC | 67672 |
The Cube Root of Uncertainty is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Robert Silverberg, published in hardcover by Macmillan in 1970 and issued in paperback by Collier Books in 1971. No further editions have been issued.
Contents
- "Introduction"
- "Passengers" (Orbit 4 1968)
- "Double Dare" (Galaxy 1956)
- "The Sixth Palace" (Galaxy 1965)
- "Translation Error" (Astounding 1959)
- "The Shadow of Wings" (If 1963)
- "Absolutely Inflexible" (Fantastic Universe 1956)
- "The Iron Chancellor" (Galaxy 1958)
- "MUgwump Four" (Galaxy 1959)
- "To the Dark Star" (The Farthest Reaches 1968)
- "Neighbor" (Galaxy 1964)
- "Halfway House" (If 1966)
- "Sundance" (F&SF 1969)
"Passengers" won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story and was nominated for the Hugo Award.[1][2]
Reception
Joanna Russ gave the collection a mixed review, noting its division between early work ("Old Silverberg is an idiot") and more recent efforts ("New Silverberg is something else: a highly colored, gloomy, melodramatic, morally allegorical writer who luxuriates in lush description and has a real love of calamity"). She noted that even the better stories were marked by "the sophomoric dark doom that most of us -- far less technically expert -- dealt with during our apprenticeships."[3]
References
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- Bibliography
- Revolt on Alpha C
- Lest We Forget Thee, Earth
- Starman's Quest
- Collision Course
- The Seed of Earth
- The Silent Invaders
- Time of the Great Freeze
- Conquerors from the Darkness
- The Gate of Worlds
- Planet of Death
- Thorns
- Those Who Watch
- The Time Hoppers
- Hawksbill Station
- The Masks of Time
- The Man in the Maze
- Nightwings
- Across a Billion Years
- To Live Again
- Up the Line
- Downward to the Earth
- Tower of Glass
- Son of Man
- The Second Trip
- The World Inside
- A Time of Changes
- The Book of Skulls
- Dying Inside
- Shadrach in the Furnace
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Nightfall
- The Face of the Waters
- Kingdoms of the Wall
- The Positronic Man
- Starborne
- Roma Eterna
Nidonian series | |
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Majipoor series | |
Gilgamesh series |
- The Cube Root of Uncertainty
- Alpha series
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- The Best of Randall Garrett
- Dawn of Time
- Deep Space: Eight Stories of Science Fiction
- Epoch
- Far Horizons
- Legends
- Legends II
- The Nebula Awards #18
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2001
- New Dimensions 1
- New Dimensions II
- New Dimensions 3
- New Dimensions IV
- New Dimensions 5
- Robert Silverberg Presents the Great SF Stories: 1964
- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964
- Strange Gifts
- Universe 1
- Universe 2
- Universe 3