Description
Shadrach makes the unsettling discovery that it is his body that is to be used. His friends beg him to flee, but he refuses to panic. Instead, and with startling composure, he evolves a dangerous plan that could change the face of the earth or, if it backfires, mean the end of life.
Shadrach in the Furnace is at once a broad, sweeping novel and a harsh, abrasive, irreverent book about a life-and-death battle between two titans-one the epitome of evil, the other a paragon of idealism-in a society pushed to extremes.
At once a broad, sweeping novel and a harsh, abrasive, irreverent book about a life-and-death battle between two titans
About the Author
Robert Silverberg is one of the most honored writers in the history of science fiction and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, and Lord Valentine's Castle, as well as Scientists and Scoundrels, also available in a Bison Books edition. He is a past president of the Science Fiction Writers of America and is the only writer to have won five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction Writers of America named him a Grand Master, one of twenty-five writers to have received that designation.
Reviews
"Filled with intrigue, paradoxes, mystery, subplots, and best of all, a surprise ending."-Library Journal
"A child of its times yet still relevant today and, above all, brilliantly entertaining and occasionally darkly poetic, this book is a winner all-around. Kudos to Bison Books for bringing this neglected classic back into print!"-Jim Lee, Tales of the Talisman
Book Information
ISBN 9780803216310
Author Robert Silverberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Bison Books
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Weight(grams) 295g