Robert Chilson
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This Side of Independence [short fiction] 7 Exemplare
The Hestwood 3 Exemplare
In His Image - Rob Chilson 2 Exemplare
In The Wabe 2 Exemplare
Independence 2 Exemplare
Teddy 2 Exemplare
The Call of Nature 2 Exemplare
The Conquest Of The Air 2 Exemplare
Midnight - Rob Chilson 1 Exemplar
Fly Me to the Moon [short fiction] 1 Exemplar
Half as Old as Time {short story} 1 Exemplar
Distant Tigers {novelette} 1 Exemplar
Logos, My Tale in Read {short story} 1 Exemplar
Farmers in the Sky 1 Exemplar
Diogene's Lantern {short story} 1 Exemplar
A Veteran Of Foreign Wars 1 Exemplar
Yearning Morning Forenoon Evening 1 Exemplar
Midnight Yearnings 1 Exemplar
The Mind Reader (SS) 1 Exemplar
Tame One {short story} 1 Exemplar
People Reviews 1 Exemplar
Written In The Sand 1 Exemplar
Per Stratagem 1 Exemplar
Excelsior! 1 Exemplar
מלכי הכוכבים 1 Exemplar
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Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 3 (November 1971) (1971) — Mitwirkender — 32 Exemplare
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCI, No. 6 (August 1973) (1973) — Mitwirkender — 21 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March/April 2014, Vol. 126, Nos. 3 & 4 (2014) — Mitwirkender — 21 Exemplare
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. CVI, No. 5 (May 1986) (1986) — Mitwirkender — 20 Exemplare
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 5 (January 1972) (1971) — Mitwirkender — 19 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September/October 2013, Vol. 125, Nos. 3 & 4 (2013) — Mitwirkender — 18 Exemplare
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. CVI, No. 13 (Mid-December 1986) (1986) — Autor, einige Ausgaben — 18 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July/August 2011, Vol. 121, Nos. 1 & 2 (2011) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXXXIV, No. 1 & 2 (January/February 2014) (2013) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
The Loch Moose Monster: More Stories From Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1993) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Chilson, Robert Dean
- Andere Namen
- Chilson, Rob
- Geburtstag
- 1945-05-19
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Ringwood, Oklahoma, USA
- Wohnorte
- Missouri, USA
- Berufe
- SF writer
- Beziehungen
- Wu, Bill (collaborator)
- Organisationen
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
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- Bewertung
- 3.5
- Rezensionen
- 9
- ISBNs
- 24
- Sprachen
- 5
The novel is set in a far future after widespread interstellar colonization by post-terrestrial "Starlings"--a speciated mutation of humanity whose telekinetic abilities form the basis of faster-than-light transport. "Mere" humans continue to outnumber Starlings and have been settled on the colonized worlds as a subordinated workforce. The protagonist Race (his name, "Race") is a supremely rare human "latent" who develops Starling powers at adolescence, and the book concerns his struggle to rise above his inherited human station.
It's not a long book, and it's a fairly fast read. It does end without resolving many of the dilemmas in which the author had placed the main characters, and there may have been some unfulfilled intention to issue sequels. Characterization isn't very sophisticated, and an awful lot of attention is spent inside Race's head as he worries about his problems. The main merit of the book is its world-building. But it wasn't such a fascinating setting that I'd recommend it on that basis alone.… (mehr)