http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/ The Worlds of Robert Silverberg - Discuss the amazing works of a sci-fi genius Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:32:01 GMT r milton http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5629 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5629 agberg wrote: . . . I find, also, that it stirs much more wonder in my mind to think of the ancients as technologically more adept than usually believed . . . Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:32:21 GMT agberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5628 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5628 I think I live in a haunted house, too, and I don't even believe in the POSSIBILITY of ghosts. Yet very odd things have gone on here, and (another application Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:58:14 GMT robert http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5627 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5627 Time travel as a concept is a fiction, where history is an event open to fiction because we don't have explanations. The concept of Time Travel in this Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:14:51 GMT agberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5626 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5626 Occam's Razor is a useful philosophical tool, by which we are led to choose the simplest explanation for any phenomenon. Since time travel lacks any Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:45:01 GMT rmiltonc http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5625 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5625 Hello RS, I just picked up the Dec Asimov's and saw your article on the Antikythera calculator. I had recently read the Scientific American article, and your Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:27:11 GMT agberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5624 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5624 I wrote that introduction about five years ago. This is one unhurried publishing company. RS Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:46:39 GMT keith771753 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5623 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5623 Oh boy oh boy.Look what's coming in May 2010: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/henry-kuttner/detour-to-otherness.htm Can hardly wait. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:21:45 GMT Tony Mann http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5622 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5622 Be careful you don't accidentally reanimate a corpse. ..tony.. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:53:36 GMT agberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5621 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5621 Works for Ben, doesn't it? (BFnklin@aol,com) RS Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:03:28 GMT keefboof http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5620 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5620 On the roof of my hotel, they placed a kite with a metal key attached to the string. Which means I have email only when lightning strikes. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:13:20 GMT welshgriffin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5619 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5619 Sounds cool Keith! I uploaded the other Haberfield cover for THE MAN IN THE MAZE but its just a cover scan. Funny that both covers feature nearly the same Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:12:00 GMT agberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5618 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5618 So they have electricity in Dakar! (Or do you get your e-mail by rubbing two sticks together, and is all of this a deplorable racist comment?) Publication of Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:07:23 GMT keefboof http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5617 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5617 Greetings from sweaty Dakar! I'm relieved to hear that the books arrived safe and sound. No rush on the SECRET SHARER. Whenever is convenient for you. I'm Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:38:30 GMT agberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5616 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5616 Keefboof, the books are here, and thank you very much. Slowly but surely I fill in the missing items here. I hope to be done with the ORPHEUS novella tomorrow Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:08:27 GMT keith771753 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5615 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theworldsofrobertsilverberg/message/5615 How cool is this. I admire very much Bob Haberfield's cover for 'The Masks of Time',posted by Welsh Griffin in US/UK Cover Art 2: