Talk:Robert Silverberg

message: Is there any particular reason why the picture is gone...? Just wondering. I know there was one the other day, and there's a redlink showing up now, so there WAS one, I'd kind of just like to know where it went. Runa27 20:00, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure, but there's one now. What can be done here to flesh out the lede? MrZaiustalk 16:19, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Additional source(s) of titles: , . --DocumentN (talk) 22:46, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Anthologies edited by Robert Silverberg" 

message: I've rated this as high importance to the SF project, due to his high output, many awards, and influential editing.
But only start class, cos no references at all :-(.Yobmod (talk) 10:10, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rated

message: The link to the Lord of Darkness novel lead to the wiki entry of Devil and not to the book's entry.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.109.136.46 (talk) 07:40, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed; I made it into a red link, as there appears to be no article on the book yet. Mike Christie (talk) 11:04, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lord of Darkness 

message: he needs a separate bibliography page, with full isbn/pub info, as well as the separate articles. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 21:48, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I would certainly agree with that. It's far too unwieldy now and I don't think it's complete.Perry Middlemiss (talk) 23:18, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  bibliography 

message: There is no mention to Flies from Dangerous Visions. Any reason? WikiWhiteRabbit (talk) 10:18, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flies 

message: I find it awkward that the book publication and other events in this section are somewhat out of chronological order: 
* The second paragraph concludes with "Other acclaimed works ... and Dying Inside, a tale of a telepath losing his powers."
* The third paragraph begins with "In 1969 Nightwings ..."
Dying Inside is from 1975 -- the jump to 1969 seems jarring (and not in an entertaining time-travel story way).
True, the second paragraph lists books, the third paragraph lists awards ... still, I think the section could be better written using strict chronology.  I'm not sure I have the time to do it properly, so I'll leave it to others.
Karl gregory jones (talk) 00:12, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Literary growth in the '60's and early 70's 

message: This article could use some information on the personal life of Silverberg, e.g. spouse[s], religious beliefs, political beliefs, etc.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.187.97.3 (talk) 16:54, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal Life 

message: See the revision history, Apr–Nov 2013)
The primary image was updated by User:Canoe1967 both 2013-07-24 and 2013-07-31  --from Worldcon 2005, eyes cast downward, to Worldcon 2009, typical portrait --later to one acquired from Karen Silverberg and newly added to EN.wikipedia, eyes cast downward.
First, is the current image more appropriate? If so, why? Second, the current image is provided with documentation available only to OTRS volunteers. If we retain it, one of them (who do not now include Canoe1967) should check the documentation and ascertain the date --preferably the photo date but the date of acquisition from K.S. or date of upload to wherever is better than no date.
--P64 (talk) 19:43, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portrait image, current and recent versions 

message: It has been widely reported that Silverberg is now the only person to have attended every Hugo Awards ceremony since their inception: the claim is made in a wide variety of places.  Is this a fact notable enough to include in the article?  Obviously the day will come when it isn't true -- either death or circumstance will prevent him from attending one -- and then I don't know if it stays in that he attended every ceremony from 1953 to 20XX.  So I know, I know, WP:BE BOLD, but I figured I'd ask here first in case anyone had any strong opinions one way or the other. :-) Jwrosenzweig (talk) 07:22, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It may well be true that he's the only one to have attended them all, but I'm not quite seeing that claim in the links you've provided—just that he has attended them all. That in itself seems worthy of inclusion, although I wouldn't use the sfsignal.com source, where the claim is made as a comment in response to the article. Rivertorch's Evil Twin (talk) 07:43, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hugo ceremony attendance 

message: He's of Jewish heritage, isn't he? 173.88.241.33 (talk) 07:05, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Why do you ask? Are you proposing a change to the article? RivertorchFIREWATER 16:22, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Jewish heritage

message: Is he using "Robert K. Silverberg" pen name for the Majipoor series? Some of his books are credited with this name on Amazon and Penguin Random House, although I found no reference a middle name:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311081/lord-valentines-castle-by-robert-k-silverberg/
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/230733/robert-k-silverberg
-Paul- (talk) 19:11, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert K. Silverberg ?

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: www.goodreads.com indicates Silverberg used an additional pseudonym, David Challon, for e.g., Campus Love Club, Thirst for Love, Suburban Affair, and Campus Hellcat. I would expect those, too, to be "outstanding erotic novels".
GeorgeTSLC (talk) 03:35, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another pseudonym 

message: That must be some kind of world record... --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 22:55, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: See List of prolific writers for the competition. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 06:33, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. That list includes some truly unbelievable claims, like that a guy wrote 1000 novels in 6 years... --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 08:40, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  80 published stories in one year? 

message: The article says a citation is needed for this.  I think that p.231-4 of Frederik Pohl's "The Way the Future Was" fits this quite nicely.  Also, the wording on this could be better: according to Pohl many SF magazines went under at that time due to the loss of the nationwide distributor American News Company.  So the market was still there, but many magazines no longer had a distributor to deliver their product to the news and magazine stands.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Walmacd (talk • contribs) 15:03, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds reasonable, and also uncontroversial so I suggest you just make the edit. If you're worried about formatting then you can ask here, or just go ahead as best you can and let somebody else fix any minor issues. Also note that you should sign your name afer comments on talk pages by adding four ~ symbols. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 10:32, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  In 1959, the market for science fiction collapsed...