Traveler of Worlds by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

'I am-or was-a science fiction writer, and one of the things my science fiction is noted for is the vividness of landscape, the descriptive sweep. To share some of the book's rasa, here are a number of direct Robert Silverberg quotes along with my own comments:

And let me tell you, Alvaro's conversations with Silverberg make for one engaging book since Silverberg has traveled widely and read widely and can speak with authority on a broad range of subjects ranging from literary fiction and science fiction, art and music, aesthetics and philosophy to film, archeology, travel and nearly everything else in between. I immediately hunted as many Silverberg books as I could find, reading perhaps fifty over the next two years.” From Alvaro Zinos-Amaro’s Preface. Beyond this, I was thrilled to realize that I had made first contact with a vast and cool intelligence, one that had spent decades producing enthralling stories now awaiting my discovery. The subtle melancholy of its three lyrical novellas moved me deeply. “In 1996, when I was seventeen years old, I discovered Robert Silverberg’s work with Nightwings. Robert Silverberg - Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935, author of over eighty novels and hundreds of stories and essays - an inspiration for writers and readers both in and beyond science fiction

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Traveler of Worlds by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro