Reviews for Visualisierungstechniken und Algorithmen

The average rating for Visualisierungstechniken und Algorithmen based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-09-07 00:00:00 Emanuel Collier Robert Silverberg's 1985 collection of six award winning novellas ranks high on a list of excellent publications for this Grandmaster of the genre. His mastery of this short medium is akin to Ursula K. LeGuin. Silverberg's magnificent title novella, "Sailing to Byzantium" reminded me of his 1966 novel Son of Man (which I did not get or like) but done much better; in both he had an excellent concept, also reminiscent of Poul Anderson's oddly misunderstood Harvest of Stars. "Thomas the Proclaimer" is a theologically based account of a futuristic John the Baptist, coming to herald a new age, but told with Silverberg's quirky charm. "Born with the Dead" is a Bradburyesque, somewhat disturbing story about a future where a dying person can elect to be "rekindled" and begin again, in a life related to, but distinctly different from the life they lived before. "Homefaring" is one of his most original stories … hell one of THE most original stories I've ever read. Part H.G. Wells, part Philip K. Dick and ALL Silverberg, this is a lobster story, yes a lobster story, that must be read to be believed. Silverberg pulls it off. "We are for the Dark" is another theologically based story where, Philip K. Dickian like, Silverberg blends elements of organized religion with a far flung space colonization musing. In Robert Silverberg's 1970 novel Downward to the Earth, Silverberg pays tribute to Joseph Conrad's signature novella Heart of Darkness. In "The Secret Sharer" Silverberg reboots Conrad's short story about a secret relationship between a vessel's captain and a stowaway.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-10-01 00:00:00 Holger Viehmann Robert Silverberg is another prolific sci-fi author that I didn't know about until I read one of his short stories in an anthology. Again, I wonder what I have been missing all these years. Eager to read more of Silverberg's works, I bought Sailing to Byzantium, which includes six of his novellas. All of them were great. The style of writing is as engaging and competent as Asimov's, but Silverberg's sci-fi isn't as hard as Asimov's and his plots are so out of this world I wonder if he takes drugs! I'll be reading more of Robert Silverberg's books.