De Weg naar het Oneindige by Robert Silverberg

He used his own name as well as a range of pseudonyms during this era, and often worked in collaboration with Randall Garrett, who was a neighbor at the time. For the next four years, by his own count, he wrote a million words a year, mostly for magazines and Ace Doubles. That year Silverberg was the author or co-author of four of the six stories in the August issue of Fantastic, breaking his record set in the previous issue. He won his first Hugo in 1956 as the 'best new writer'. Crowell with the cover notice: 'A gripping story of outer space'. While at Columbia, he wrote the juvenile novel Revolt on Alpha C (1955), published by Thomas Y. He received a BA in English Literature from Columbia University, in 1956.

A voracious reader since childhood, he began submitting stories to science fiction magazines during his early teenage years. Silverberg was born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York. He has attended every Hugo Award ceremony since the inaugural event in 1953. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF. Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction. Silverberg's short story 'Quick Freeze' took the cover of the May 1957 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly.

De Weg naar het Oneindige by Robert Silverberg