"The stories in this volume were written between July of 1990 and March of 1995-the second half of the fifth decade of my career as a science-fiction writer.
Scott Fitzgerald-\'so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.\'" -Robert Silverberg, from the Introduction.
And so-to leap neatly from the Bard of Avon to F.
The one recourse is the one I have chosen, which is to soldier staunchly onward through the years, come what may, writing a story or two here and a book there, while the world changes out of all recognition around me.
I look back nostalgically on the small-town atmosphere of the era in which I began my career, and there are Times when I\'d be glad to \'call back yesterday, bid time return.\' As Shakespeare pointed out, though, that can\'t be done.
It\'s a different world today.
I suppose I wrote more short stories in the first six months of 1957 than in that entire six-year period; but so be it.
Here, then, is the cream of the Silverberg output, 1990-95.
I don\'t think I could have imagined, when I began that career in the early 1950s, that science-fiction publishing would evolve the way it did over the next forty years. "The stories in this volume were written between July of 1990 and March of 1995-the second half of the fifth decade of my career as a science-fiction writer
