Items related to Beyond the Safe Zone
Synopsis
Twenty-seven stories deal with immortality, intelligent dolphins, space travel, time travel, a robot pope, forced organ donorship, newspapers from the future, extrasensory perception, and mutants
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Reviews
For all the imagination of Silverberg's extraordinary SF, its most striking aspects in this genre of detachment and sublimated dreams are its emotional honesty and its connection to the real (sufficiently strange and dangerous) world. The reader feels that Silverberg is describing something of his own personal dilemmas as the protagonists constantly seek to "only connect," becoming tourists in life as they shuttle between the poles of anomie and religious ecstasy, solitude and sexual union, in their vain search for faith, love and home. This hefty collection of 27 tales, some of novella length, can only be faulted for preferring Silverberg's more ambitious and abstruse work to some of his better if simpler stories. Still, the honor roll includes his witty critique of the SF mentality, "The SF Hall of Fame"; his accounts of journeys ("Trips," "Getting Across") that allow their travelers to "tune in upon their very own lives, gone somewhere far away"; the stories that pungently recall specific historic moments ("Caught in the Organ Draft"); and one of his very best, "The Feast of St. Dionysus," an ex-astronaut's hesitant quest for oneness with the world he had left behind. Paperback rights to Warner.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Other Popular Editions of the Same Title
Search results for Beyond the Safe Zone
Stock Image
Beyond the Safe Zone : Collected Short Fiction of Robert Silverberg
Published by
Penguin Publishing Group, 1986
ISBN 10: 0917657608
ISBN 13: 9780917657603
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good. First Edition - First Printing. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 2608628-6
Stock Image
Beyond the Safe Zone
Published by
Dutton Adult, 1986
ISBN 10: 0917657608
ISBN 13: 9780917657603
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Uncle Hugo's SF/Uncle Edgar's Mystery, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library copy. Library rubber stamps and stickers. Soiled on the edges of the page block. Library due date form glued to the front endpaper. Jacket in a mylar protector taped to the boards. Seller Inventory # 107233
Stock Image
Beyond the Safe Zone
Seller: Books-R-Keen, DuBois, PA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
hardcover. Condition: Fair. Acceptable items may contain, highlighting, writing, tares, stains and other previous signs of use. Used items may not contain CD's, Dust Jackets, access codes and other accompanying items when applicable. Seller Inventory # 12B48714
Seller Image
Beyond the Safe Zone
Seller: -OnTimeBooks-, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail. Seller Inventory # OTV.0917657608.G
Stock Image
Beyond the Safe Zone
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority! Seller Inventory # S_457656146
Stock Image
Beyond the Safe Zone
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0917657608I4N00
Stock Image
Beyond the Safe Zone: Collected Short Fiction of Robert Silverberg
Published by
Donald I. Fine, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1986
ISBN 10: 0917657608
ISBN 13: 9780917657603
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Stuart W. Wells III, Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second Printing. Cover art by Loretta Trezzo. As new, never read. Seller Inventory # 007850
Seller Image
Beyond the Safe Zone
Published by
Donald I. Fine, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0917657608
ISBN 13: 9780917657603
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Space Age Books LLC, Conroe, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is the Donald I. Fine hardcover first edition. Full printing line with "1" on its copyright page, and publisher's original "$18.95" price on its jacket's front flap. This book is in near fine condition, marred only by a light bump on the top of its spine. Its binding is sound and square, with no spine crease. Covers are unmarked and otherwise unworn, with bright gilt titles on its spine. Pages are unmarked and uinworn. Not a remainder. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is also in near fine condition: whole, unmarked, and unworn, with light tanning on its edges but otherwise bright. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble cushion, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description. Seller Inventory # 004300
Seller Image
BEYOND THE SAFE ZONE: COLLECTED STORIES .
Published by
Donald I. Fine, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0917657608
ISBN 13: 9780917657603
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A major collection by one of SF's finest writers of short fiction, collecting two novellas and twenty-five stories. Includes "Good News from the Vatican," "The Feast of St. Dionysus," "Caught in the Organ Draft," "When We Went to See the End of the World," and many other memorable stories. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1015. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169353). Seller Inventory # 169353
Stock Image
BEYOND THE SAFE ZONE: COLLECTED STORIES .
Published by
Donald I. Fine, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0917657608
ISBN 13: 9780917657603
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A major collection by one of SF's finest writers of short fiction, collecting two novellas and twenty-five stories. Includes "Good News from the Vatican," "The Feast of St. Dionysus," "Caught in the Organ Draft," "When We Went to See the End of the World," and many other memorable stories. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1015. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#147814). Seller Inventory # 147814