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    The Happy Unfortunate
    The Happy Unfortunate
    The Happy Unfortunate
    Audiobook51 minutes

    The Happy Unfortunate

    Written by Robert Silverberg

    Narrated by Edward Miller

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    Two sci-fi stories by respected sci-fi author Robert Silverberg, The Happy Unfortunate, published in 1957, and The Hunted Heroes, published in 1956. Both stories pit humanity against severe odds for survival; both in space (The Happy Unfortunate) and on ravaged Earth (The Hunted Heroes)...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAudioliterature
    Release dateDec 15, 2016
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    Robert Silverberg

    <p>Robert Silverberg has won five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and the prestigious <em>Prix Apollo.</em> He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels -- including the best-selling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics <em>Dying Inside</em> and <em>A Time of Changes</em> -- and more than sixty nonfiction works. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are <em>Legends</em> and <em>Far Horizons,</em> which contain original short stories set in the most popular universe of Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, and virtually every other bestselling fantasy and SF writer today. Mr. Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction.</p>

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