Book description
In 1492, Colombus discovered America. In 1992 Claude Regan had to make
it happen again! The US needed a shot in the arm as the twentieth
century entered the last decade. And a World's fair celebrating five
hundred years of American civilisation might just do the trick. Regan
was the trickiest, most ruthless promoter in the country. And the first
thing he realised was that Earth wasn't big enough to hold the kind of
fair he wanted So he built a new world! 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.
