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    To Open The Sky
    Hawksbill Times Two
    Audiobook series2 titles

    Silverberg Classics Series

    Written by Robert Silverberg

    Narrated by Craig Abbott and Phillip Polite

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    About this series

    From Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg comes, To Open The Sky.


    The Atom was their God—but there was something stronger…


    At the beginning of the 22nd century, Earth colonies were established on Mars and Venus. But the ultimate dream - to travel to the stars - was still an impossibility.


    Cults, fads, madnesses of various kinds swept the population. The maddest--and so far the most permanent--were the Vorst worshipers, the atom adorers, the believers in immortality through technology.


    Yet there were the Harmonists, who believed that technology could never do it. And the hatred between the two factions was too deep to be reconciled - until a conflict on Venus between a Vorster priest and his Harmonist opponent resulted in unexpected developments.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThree Ravens Publishing
    Release dateMay 10, 2024
    To Open The Sky
    Hawksbill Times Two

    Titles in the series (2)

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      Hawksbill Times Two
      Hawksbill Times Two

      Hawksbill Times Two

      Robert Silverberg
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      Travel back in time a billion years to Hawksbill Station -- twice. Join in this haunting tale of time travel, loss, betrayal, and redemption through both versions of Silverberg's Hawksbill Station in the same volume. Includes the original novella and full-length novel versions of 'Hawksbill Station' plus an introduction and afterword, describing how each version came to be written. Jim Barrett, once the leader of an underground movement bent on toppling America’s corrupt totalitarian government, finds himself a political prisoner exiled to Hawksbill Station, a male-only penal colony established on the barren landscape of the late Cambrian period East Coast of America. Now a crippled old man and the camp’s de facto ruler, Barrett struggles as all the others against their lonely existence, but finds the camp’s newest arrival resurrecting old memories of his revolutionary past.

      Travel back in time a billion years to Hawksbill Station -- twice. Join in this haunting tale of time travel, loss, betrayal, and redemption through both versions of Silverberg's Hawksbill Station in the same volume. Includes the original novella and full-length novel versions of 'Hawksbill Station' plus an introduction and afterword, describing how each version came to be written. Jim Barrett, once the leader of an underground movement bent on toppling America’s corrupt totalitarian government, finds himself a political prisoner exiled to Hawksbill Station, a male-only penal colony established on the barren landscape of the late Cambrian period East Coast of America. Now a crippled old man and the camp’s de facto ruler, Barrett struggles as all the others against their lonely existence, but finds the camp’s newest arrival resurrecting old memories of his revolutionary past.

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      To Open The Sky
      To Open The Sky

      To Open The Sky

      Robert Silverberg
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      From Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg comes, To Open The Sky. The Atom was their God—but there was something stronger… At the beginning of the 22nd century, Earth colonies were established on Mars and Venus. But the ultimate dream - to travel to the stars - was still an impossibility. Cults, fads, madnesses of various kinds swept the population. The maddest--and so far the most permanent--were the Vorst worshipers, the atom adorers, the believers in immortality through technology. Yet there were the Harmonists, who believed that technology could never do it. And the hatred between the two factions was too deep to be reconciled - until a conflict on Venus between a Vorster priest and his Harmonist opponent resulted in unexpected developments.  

      From Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg comes, To Open The Sky. The Atom was their God—but there was something stronger… At the beginning of the 22nd century, Earth colonies were established on Mars and Venus. But the ultimate dream - to travel to the stars - was still an impossibility. Cults, fads, madnesses of various kinds swept the population. The maddest--and so far the most permanent--were the Vorst worshipers, the atom adorers, the believers in immortality through technology. Yet there were the Harmonists, who believed that technology could never do it. And the hatred between the two factions was too deep to be reconciled - until a conflict on Venus between a Vorster priest and his Harmonist opponent resulted in unexpected developments.  

    Author

    Robert Silverberg

    Robert Silverberg has written more than 160 science fiction novels and nonfiction books. In his spare time he has edited over 60 anthologies. He began submitting stories to science fiction magazines when he was just 13. His first published story, entitled "Gorgon Planet," appeared in 1954 when he was a sophomore at Columbia University. In 1956 he won his first Hugo Award, for Most Promising New Author, and he hasn't stopped writing since. Among his standouts: the bestselling Lord Valentine trilogy, set on the planet of Majipoor, and the timeless classics Dying Inside and A Time of Changes. Silverberg has won the prestigious Nebula Award an astonishing five times, and Hugo Awards on four separate occasions; he has been nominated for both awards more times that any other writer. In 2004, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him their Grand Master award for career achievement, making him the only SF writer to win a major award in each of six consecutive decades.

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