Tower of Glass - Robert Silverberg
TITLE: Tower of Glass
Comments added May 8, 2023:
Tower of Glass - Robert Silverberg (novel - science fiction - 2023-05-08 - review #0963)
My edition of Silverberg's 1970 novel "Tower of Glass" is a 184-page paperback. In that modest space the author adroitly weaves several gripping story lines around the person of Simeon Krug genius and maniac: he has a compulsive desire to contact aliens' beings from another solar system; staggeringly wealthy resulting from his lab grown robotic men and women who secretly worship their creator Krug and his epic conflict with his pleasure-seeking son.
Simeon Krug is obsessed with building a 1-kilometer radio beacon in Antarctica to broadcaster a response to a repeatable radio signal received from a planetary nebula. In parallel he is manufacturing a space craft where men can travel, in suspended animation, to the source of the undecipherable signal. The robotic foremen of his "Tower of Glass" is involved in a secretive religious cult centered on Krug. If this sounds like a batty SF pot-boiler, I would respectively suggest you reconsider. I found this novel completely realistic in it narrative ideas and a case study in obsession by a wealthy, deranged man. One of the better SF novels I have ever read by one of the most consistently talented writer in the field.
AUTHOR: Robert Silverberg 1935-
TYPE: novel paperback
PUBLISHER: Bantam S6902
COVER PRICE: $.75
ISBN:
PAGES: 184
PUB DATE: March 1971
EDITION: 1st edition paperback, prior hardbound edition
COPYRIGHT: 1970 by author
COVER ARTIST:
ISFDB:
NOTATION:
First printing stated.
Spine #553-06902-075
Front cover catalog #S6902
INDEX: 0241 - Tower of Glass - 11 - RS - IFB
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
QUOTE….“The study of history was oddly congenial to Joseph. There was a kind of poetry in it for him. He had always loved those flamboyant tales of far-off strife, the carefully preserved legends of the fabled kings and kingdoms of Old Earth. But they were just tales to him, gaudy legends, ingenious dramatic fictions. He did not seriously think that men like Agamemnon and Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan had ever existed”. Robert Silverberg from The Longest Way Home
Tower of Glass - Robert Silverberg
TITLE: Tower of Glass
Comments added May 8, 2023:
Tower of Glass - Robert Silverberg (novel - science fiction - 2023-05-08 - review #0963)
My edition of Silverberg's 1970 novel "Tower of Glass" is a 184-page paperback. In that modest space the author adroitly weaves several gripping story lines around the person of Simeon Krug genius and maniac: he has a compulsive desire to contact aliens' beings from another solar system; staggeringly wealthy resulting from his lab grown robotic men and women who secretly worship their creator Krug and his epic conflict with his pleasure-seeking son.
Simeon Krug is obsessed with building a 1-kilometer radio beacon in Antarctica to broadcaster a response to a repeatable radio signal received from a planetary nebula. In parallel he is manufacturing a space craft where men can travel, in suspended animation, to the source of the undecipherable signal. The robotic foremen of his "Tower of Glass" is involved in a secretive religious cult centered on Krug. If this sounds like a batty SF pot-boiler, I would respectively suggest you reconsider. I found this novel completely realistic in it narrative ideas and a case study in obsession by a wealthy, deranged man. One of the better SF novels I have ever read by one of the most consistently talented writer in the field.
AUTHOR: Robert Silverberg 1935-
TYPE: novel paperback
PUBLISHER: Bantam S6902
COVER PRICE: $.75
ISBN:
PAGES: 184
PUB DATE: March 1971
EDITION: 1st edition paperback, prior hardbound edition
COPYRIGHT: 1970 by author
COVER ARTIST:
ISFDB:
NOTATION:
First printing stated.
Spine #553-06902-075
Front cover catalog #S6902
INDEX: 0241 - Tower of Glass - 11 - RS - IFB
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
QUOTE….“The study of history was oddly congenial to Joseph. There was a kind of poetry in it for him. He had always loved those flamboyant tales of far-off strife, the carefully preserved legends of the fabled kings and kingdoms of Old Earth. But they were just tales to him, gaudy legends, ingenious dramatic fictions. He did not seriously think that men like Agamemnon and Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan had ever existed”. Robert Silverberg from The Longest Way Home