The Nature of the Place
- by Robert Silverberg
- Short Story
- Fantasy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Nature of the Place” by Robert Silverberg, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1963.
Paul Dearborn is quite certain that he’ll go to hell, a prospect that bothers him in only one way: the uncertainty of what it will be.
And the only thing that bothers me is that I just had to read this in the month of my own sixtieth birthday. Oh, that no-goodnick Silverberg!
And the only thing that bothers me is that I just had to read this in the month of my own sixtieth birthday. Oh, that no-goodnick Silverberg!
He thought back over his sixty years. The betrayals, the disappointments, the sins, the hangovers. He had some money now, and by some standards he was a successful man. But life hadn't been any joyride. It had been rocky and fear-torn, filled with doubts and headaches, moments of complete despair, others of frustrated pain.
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- “The Nature of the Place” by Robert Silverberg, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1963.