The Cube Root of Uncertainty

The Cube Root of Uncertainty is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Robert Silverberg, published in hardcover by Macmillan in 1970 and issued in paperback by Collier Books in 1971. No further editions have been issued.

The Cube Root of Uncertainty
First edition
AuthorRobert Silverberg
Cover artistAnthony Sini
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherMacmillan Publishing
Publication date
1970
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages239
OCLC67672

Contents

"Passengers" won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story and was nominated for the Hugo Award.[1][2]

Reception

Joanna Russ gave the collection a mixed review, noting its division between early work ("Old Silverberg is an idiot") and more recent efforts ("New Silverberg is something else: a highly colored, gloomy, melodramatic, morally allegorical writer who luxuriates in lush description and has a real love of calamity"). She noted that even the better stories were marked by "the sophomoric dark doom that most of us -- far less technically expert -- dealt with during our apprenticeships."[3]

gollark: I continue to be OrangeC7. As OrangeC7, hi.
gollark: Ow.
gollark: I would like to note that I am of course the real orangeC7.
gollark: What is a "rabbit" "hole"?
gollark: You should use potatOS!

References
  1. Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
  2. Locus Index to SF Awards Archived 2013-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Books", F&SF, April 1971, p.67
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