Robert Silverberg - Grandmaster of fiction, winner of 6 "Nebula", 5 "Hugo", 8 "Locuses" and a dozen other various awards The first story was published at the age of 19, and at the age of 21 won Hugo as the most promising young author. Often in one issue of the magazine “Amazing Stories” or “Fantastic” appeared several of his stories under different pseudonyms, of which he had more than three dozen. In the early period of his work, Silverberg sought to reach as large a readership as possible, without neglecting any of the genres - wrote nauchpop, detectives, erotica .. In 1967-1976, he fully focused on fiction, earning the love of both fans of solid NF and fantasy sagas (the cycle "Majipura"). "Dying in Yourself" - a novel awarded the John Campbell Memorial Award - tells about the difficult fate of a telepath trying to come to terms with the peculiarities of his gift. Extraordinary abilities gradually destroy the kind and empathetic David, devour his personality. In the second novel, The Book of Skulls, a group of students embark on a journey through the desert in order to infiltrate the protected Brotherhood of Skulls and uncover the secret of immortality, which is rumored to possess mysterious members of a cult lost in the Arizona wilderness. For these guys, immortality is a very attractive toy, but is it not too expensive to pay for the possession of it?