Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is primarily known as a SF writer, although he has also written nonfiction and softcore pornography.

He is also well-known for having described James Tiptree, Jr.'s writing as "ineluctibly masculine" in his 1975 introduction to Warm Worlds and Otherwise, describing rumors that Tiptree was female as "absurd".

Names

Robert Silverberg has used pseudonyms to enter other markets without reputational effects. Franklin Hamilton; Walker Chapman; L. T. Woodward (softcore porn/sex manual); Paul Hollander; Lloyd Robinson; Lee Sebastian; Calvin M. Knox. Most or all of his SF, however, has been published under his own name.

Selected bibliography

• Revolt on Alpha C (1955; first published novel; YA)
• To Live Again (personalities can be downloaded)
• The World Inside (novel) (overpopulated future; forced non-monogamy)
• Nightwings (1969 novella)
• Sophisticated Sex Techniques in Marriage (1967, as L.T. Woodward)

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