Robert Chilson
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This Side of Independence [short fiction] 7 kappaletta
The Hestwood 3 kappaletta
In His Image - Rob Chilson 2 kappaletta
In The Wabe 2 kappaletta
Independence 2 kappaletta
Teddy 2 kappaletta
The Call of Nature 2 kappaletta
The Conquest Of The Air 2 kappaletta
Midnight - Rob Chilson 1 kappale
Fly Me to the Moon [short fiction] 1 kappale
Half as Old as Time {short story} 1 kappale
Distant Tigers {novelette} 1 kappale
Logos, My Tale in Read {short story} 1 kappale
Farmers in the Sky 1 kappale
Diogene's Lantern {short story} 1 kappale
A Veteran Of Foreign Wars 1 kappale
Yearning Morning Forenoon Evening 1 kappale
Midnight Yearnings 1 kappale
The Mind Reader (SS) 1 kappale
Tame One {short story} 1 kappale
People Reviews 1 kappale
Written In The Sand 1 kappale
Per Stratagem 1 kappale
Excelsior! 1 kappale
מלכי הכוכבים 1 kappale
Associated Works
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 3 (November 1971) (1971) — Avustaja — 45 kappaletta
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCI, No. 6 (August 1973) (1973) — Avustaja — 21 kappaletta
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March/April 2014, Vol. 126, Nos. 3 & 4 (2014) — Avustaja — 21 kappaletta
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 5 (January 1972) (1971) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September/October 2013, Vol. 125, Nos. 3 & 4 (2013) — Avustaja — 18 kappaletta
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. CVI, No. 13 (Mid-December 1986) (1986) — Tekijä, eräät painokset — 18 kappaletta
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July/August 2011, Vol. 121, Nos. 1 & 2 (2011) — Avustaja — 14 kappaletta
Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Vol. CXXXIV, No. 1 & 2 (January/February 2014) (2013) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
The Loch Moose Monster: More Stories From Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1993) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
Johann Sebastian Bach Memorial Barbecue. Internationale Science Fiction Erzählungen. (1990) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Chilson, Robert Dean
- Muut nimet
- Chilson, Rob
- Syntymäaika
- 1945-05-19
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Ringwood, Oklahoma, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Missouri, USA
- Ammatit
- SF writer
- Suhteet
- Wu, Bill (collaborator)
- Organisaatiot
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
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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.… (lisätietoja)