Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg (1979) – I was surprised, after reading the author’s introduction about how difficult it was to write these stories about death, that Mr. Silverberg is still alive today.  Seriously, the pains and trepidation he’d experienced writing them made me think that he himself was close to death in the late seventies. These three novellas, written in the early seventies, focus on the topic of death for various pulp science fiction magazines of the time.  While they are not […]