Downward To Earth - Robert Silverberg
TITLE: Downward To Earth
AUTHOR: Robert Silverberg 1935-
TYPE: novel paperback
PUBLISHER: Signet T4497
COVER PRICE: $.75
ISBN:
PAGES: 176
PUB DATE: January 1971
EDITION: 1st paperback
COPYRIGHT: 1971 by author
COVER ARTIST: Gene Szafran
ISFDB: Yes,
RATING:
NOTATION:
First printing stated
Cover artist identified by signature only, no credit given.
INDEX: 0246 - Downward To Earth - 16 - RB - IFB
Synopsis: Edmund Gunderson was the Terran administrator of the colony world of Belzagor, and he returns to it after it has gained independence, feeling a sense of guilt for the way he has treated its dominant species, the elephant-like nildoror, whose animalistic appearance had kept Gunderson from taking them seriously as sentient beings. On his return, he feels a new sense of kinship with the natives, perhaps more than for the Terran tourists. The nildoror undergo a process of rebirth, and Gunderson's greatest guilt comes from having denied rebirth to seven nildoror to make them help him repair flood damage.(From Wikipedia)
CONTENTS: Serialized in Galaxy magazine 1969-70 four parts
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
Downward To Earth - Robert Silverberg
TITLE: Downward To Earth
AUTHOR: Robert Silverberg 1935-
TYPE: novel paperback
PUBLISHER: Signet T4497
COVER PRICE: $.75
ISBN:
PAGES: 176
PUB DATE: January 1971
EDITION: 1st paperback
COPYRIGHT: 1971 by author
COVER ARTIST: Gene Szafran
ISFDB: Yes,
RATING:
NOTATION:
First printing stated
Cover artist identified by signature only, no credit given.
INDEX: 0246 - Downward To Earth - 16 - RB - IFB
Synopsis: Edmund Gunderson was the Terran administrator of the colony world of Belzagor, and he returns to it after it has gained independence, feeling a sense of guilt for the way he has treated its dominant species, the elephant-like nildoror, whose animalistic appearance had kept Gunderson from taking them seriously as sentient beings. On his return, he feels a new sense of kinship with the natives, perhaps more than for the Terran tourists. The nildoror undergo a process of rebirth, and Gunderson's greatest guilt comes from having denied rebirth to seven nildoror to make them help him repair flood damage.(From Wikipedia)
CONTENTS: Serialized in Galaxy magazine 1969-70 four parts
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