The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express 1995-2009

But, for all that, I went on writing short fiction all through the seventh and eighth decades of my life, and though I’m not very active these days, I would still pay attention if someone were to approach me with an interesting and challenging short-story project, or if some absolutely irresistible story idea were to come into my mind. I will not, at this point, try to claim that the stories that are collected here are the last short stories I will ever write. Surely some editor, in the years ahead, will tickle my imagination with a proposal I can’t resist. But I doubt that will be happening very often; and, meanwhile, here’s the harvest of the fourteen years that began in 1995—not an enormous number of stories, no, but stories nevertheless that I think are worth reading and reprinting. —Robert Silverberg, from his Introduction Table of Contents: Introduction Diana of the Hundred Breasts Beauty in the Night Call Me Titan The Tree That Grew From the Sky The Church at Monte Saturno Hanosz Prime Goes to Old Earth The Millennium Express Travelers The Colonel Returns to the Stars The Eater of Dreams A Piece of the Great World Against the Current The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale Defenders of the Frontier The Prisoner Smithers and the Ghost of the Thar