Re: "Happy 90th Birthday, Robert Silverberg!"

On 1/16/25 11:44 AM, Lenona wrote:

I knew him, as a kid, for "The Lost Race of Mars." (He really should
have set that in the 22nd century, IMO. Or the 23rd.) He also wrote a
lot of nonfiction, for those who don't know.
 What I posted on his 80th birthday:
 https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.sf.written/c/9njGlro_DF0/m/uOc- w89QQasJ
 Excerpt:
 "The Great Doctors" (nonfiction) is still intriguing even today, IMO.
That's where I found out that the myth of the medical demigod Asclepius
may have been based on a real man from circa 1400 B.C.!

When I was roughly 11 years old, I read my first two sf books for "older readers"[1], one of which was Silverberg's "Planet of Death"[2]. I probably read it 4-5 times that year.
Tony
[1] It was in that section of the school library.
[2] The other one being Lester del Rey's "Tunnel Through Time", which I learned many years later was probably written by Paul Fairman, working from Lester's outline and/or guidance.