Robert Silverberg's Many Trapdoors

CHARLES L. ELKINS is Professor of English at Florida International University. His publications have appeared in many journals, including Extrapolation, Science-Fiction Studies, and Journal of Popular Culture, and he has contributed to many critical anthologies and reference books.MARTIN HARRY GREENBERG is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Among his over 200 books are some 20 scholarly works in the science fiction field. He was co-editor, with Patrick A. McCarthy and Charles L. Elkins, of The Legacy of Olaf Stapledon (Greenwood Press, 1989).

• Preface Introduction by Thomas D. Clareson Robert Silverberg: An Overview by Russell Letson An Ironic Deflation of the Superman Myth: Literary Influence and Science Fiction Tradition in Dying Inside by Edgar L. Chapman Repetition and Reversal: Robert Silverberg's Ironic Twist Endings by Joseph Francavilla Personal Identity in the Majipoor Trilogy, To Live Again, and Downward to the Earth by John H. Flodstrom Robert Silverberg's The World Inside as Ambiguous Dystopia by Frank Dietz Silverberg's Ambiguous Transcendence by Robert Reilly On Silverberg's Tom O'Bedlam by Colin Manlove Bibliography Index