Book description
How do you justify genocide? Kennedy had a job to do. It was as simple
as that. He was paid to do a job, and he did it. His job was to convince
the Earth's population that a hapless race of sapient creatures living
peacefully on a distant planet must be destroyed as a menace to the
Earth (First published 1958) Robert Silverberg (1935 - ) Robert
Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935, and is one of the
most prolific authors of all time, writing not just SF & Fantasy,
but extensive non-fiction and a large number of pseudonymously published
erotica novels. In his first years as a professional writer, his output
regularly exceeded a million words per year. He has won and been
nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards dozens of times as both writer
and editor, and in 2004 received the SFWA Grand Master Award. Among his
many acclaimed and bestselling novels are A Time of Changes, The Book of
Skulls, Dying Inside and Lord Valentine's Castle. Robert Silverberg
lives on the West Coast of the United States with his wife, author,
editor and art critic, Karen Haber.