Phases of the Moon

All through my adolescence there was little I wanted as badly as to see a story bearing my name appear in one of the science-fiction magazines...

But even after making those 550 sales -- or 650, or 750, or however many it was -- I still have not lost touch with the adolescent boy within me, the one who bought those issues of Astounding Science Fiction and Thrilling Wonder Stories in the far-off 1940s and dreamed of being a writer some day, by which he meant selling a story or two to one of those magazines. Whenever I see my name on a magazine cover, he reacts with astonishment and delight. So now, looking back over my long career, bringing together a representative sampling of stories from each of the six decades -- so far -- in which my work has found publication, I shake my head in wonder at the way it all turned out, and give silent thanks to all.

-- Robert Silverberg

In addition to early efforts ("Road to Nightfall," "The Macauley Circuit") and classics ("Good News from the Vatican," and "Sailing to Byzantium," to name but two), Phases includes a small volume’s worth of introductions and memoirs.

Limited: 1500 signed numbered fully cloth bound hardcover copies
Lettered: 26 signed traycased copies

Table of Contents:

• Introduction

One: The 1950s

• Road to Nightfall
• The Macauley Circuit
• Sunrise on Mercury
• Warm Man

Two: The 1960s

• To See the Invisible Man
• Flies
• Passengers
• Nightwings
• Sundance

Three: The 1970s

• Good News from the Vatican
• Capricorn Games
• Born with the Dead
• Schwartz Between the Galaxies

Four: The 1980s

• The Far Side of the Bell-Shaped Curve
• The Pope of the Chimps
• Needle in a Timestack
• Sailing to Byzantium
• Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another

Five: The 1990s

• Hunters in the Forest
• Death Do Us Part
• Beauty in the Night

Six: The 2000s

• The Millennium Express
• With Caesar in the Underworld