The Palace at Midnight

Somehow, for all my outward pretence of cold-eyed professionalism, all my insistence that writing is simply a job like any other, I've discovered to my surprise and chagrin that there's more than that going on around here, that I write as much out of karmic necessity and some inescapable inner need to rededicate my own skills constantly to my-what? My craft? My art? My profession? I wrote these stories because the only way of earning a living I have ever had has been by writing, but mainly, I have to admit, I wrote these stories because I couldn't not write them. Well, so be it. They involved me in a lot of hard work, but for me, at least, the results justify the toil. I'm glad I wrote them. Writing them, it turns out, was important for me, and even pleasurable, in a curiously complex after-the-fact kind of way. May they give you pleasure now too. -Robert Silverberg, from his Introduction

Author: Robert Silverberg
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Published: 04/25/2013
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.07d
ISBN13: 9781596066045
ISBN10: 1596066040
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Collections & Anthologies
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Action & Adventure