Hawksbill Station/Press Enter

I find it fascinating that so many SF novels that are considered classics are out of print. This one currently is not available (though used copies are always available in large quantities), but it has been printed and reprinted so often in the past that I'm sure it is just a matter of time before a new edition appears. Certainly it has more relevance at the present than at times in the past, when we have seen our political... Read Full Review

This book is about political prisoners who are exiled back in time a billion years to the cambrian period in a place called Hawksbill Station. There is nothing but solid rock, no plants or animals on land, only in the sea. The story alternates between the cambrian and the present. Most of the men at Hawksbill are losing their minds because of the deprevation. I found those chapters interesting. The chapters from the present... Read Full Review

Political prisoners are sentenced to exile one billion years in the past, before the appearance of the first land-dwelling lifeforms. The story alternates between the exiles in the past, ageing and battling mental illness brought on by their isolation, and the activities that resulted in their sentences. The primary character, Jim Barrett, struggles to maintain his deteriorating community while investigating the puzzle of... Read Full Review

Out of all the Silverberg books (or the classic ones at least) this has to be the most direct and least complex out of all of them. The plot is fairly simple, a rigid Earth government sentenced all its dissidents to a station billions of years in the past and with the way technolongy is, they can only move time in one direction, that being back. So they're all stuck there. The leader of the camp, Barrett, isn't the first... Read Full Review

One of the more "conventional" science fiction novels that came out of Silverberg's most fruitful period, Hawksbill Station is still pretty much a classic, mostly for his vivid imagination and deep streak of humanity that colors all of his best work. In this novel, a brutal yet humane US government has taken any dissidents they find too dangerous to be left around and sent them back to Hawksbill Station, a billion years... Read Full Review