Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:15:08 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Robert Silverberg news
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

from a publishing news service email:

Robert Silverberg, About to Receive Nebula Grand
Master, Will Publish What He Wants--with Small
Houses

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer covers this weekend's
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula
Awards gathering this weekend. Silverberg, who already
has 5 Nebulas, tells the paper: "The various retirements
I've gone through are a reflection of my ongoing war with
science fiction," says Silverberg. "I think science fiction is
a very important kind of fiction. It's also a branch of
popular entertainment. I've struggled back and forth
between my desire to make science fiction into a visionary
literature of great emotional and literary intensity, and the
publisher's desire to make a lot of money. Every decade or
so I've walked out in anger saying I can't cope with this
dichotomy anymore."

Now, "I'm just removing myself from that whole
commercial battlefield," he says. "I've moved toward
relatively small publishing houses. And I'll write what I
please ... without commercial prodding."
Seattle PI story
http://click.email-publisher.com/maab9voaa55Xpa4fqn8baeQxXH/