Starborne

Starborne is a 1996 science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, an expansion of his 1973 story "Ship-Sister, Star-Sister".

Plot summary

Fifty men and women set out on the Wotan to discover new habitable worlds and break free of a stagnant utopia. They are connected with Earth via a telepathic link between a crew member and her sister. However, the link is broken, stranding the Wotan far from home, where they encounter an alien presence and begin to reconsider their assumptions about life and death and the universe.

Literary significance and reception

Reviews of the novel were mixed: Publishers Weekly praised Silverberg's "compelling prose" but faulted its "meandering and talky" execution.^[1]

Kirkus Reviews found it "another polished and agreeable presentation" but ultimately felt that the scenario was "overly familiar."^[2]

References

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Robert Silverberg

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Novels

• Revolt on Alpha C
• Lest We Forget Thee, Earth
• Starman's Quest
• Collision Course
• The Seed of Earth
• The Silent Invaders
• Time of the Great Freeze
• Conquerors from the Darkness
• The Gate of Worlds
• Planet of Death
• Thorns
• Those Who Watch
• The Time Hoppers
• Hawksbill Station
• The Masks of Time
• The Man in the Maze
• Nightwings
• Across a Billion Years
• To Live Again
• Up the Line
• Downward to the Earth
• Tower of Glass
• Son of Man
• The Second Trip
• The World Inside
• A Time of Changes
• The Book of Skulls
• Dying Inside
• Shadrach in the Furnace
• Sailing to Byzantium
• Nightfall
• The Face of the Waters
• Kingdoms of the Wall
• The Positronic Man
• Starborne
• Roma Eterna

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Gilgamesh series	Gilgamesh the King To the Land of the Living

Short story collections

• The Cube Root of Uncertainty

Anthologies edited

• Alpha series
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• The Best of Randall Garrett
• Dawn of Time
• Deep Space: Eight Stories of Science Fiction
• Epoch
• Far Horizons
• Legends
• Legends II
• The Nebula Awards #18
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2001
• New Dimensions 1
• New Dimensions II
• New Dimensions 3
• New Dimensions IV
• New Dimensions 5
• Robert Silverberg Presents the Great SF Stories: 1964
• The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964
• Strange Gifts
• Universe 1
• Universe 2
• Universe 3

Non-fiction

• Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations

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