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Subject: Re: "Happy 90th Birthday, Robert Silverberg!"
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 07:49:52 -0500
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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.