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ROBERT SILVERBERG

Good News from the Vatican

ROBERT SILVERBERG is a native of New York City who has been a professional writer all of his

working life. He began selling stories in 1954, while an undergraduate at Columbia College. He

graduated with an A.B. degree, married Barbara H. Brown, an electronics engineer, and received his

first Hugo Award-in a special category as science fiction's most promising new author-all in the

year 1956. Until they moved to California in 1972, the Silverbergs made their home in the

Riverdale section of New York City, in a venerable mansion that was formerly owned by Fiorello La

Guardia.

The only reason that Silverberg does not challenge Poul Anderson's status as science fiction's

most prolific writer is because so much of Silverberg's output has been in other arenas-he has

written voluminously in the fields of popular science, history and biography, and has produced a

series of distinguished books about archaeology. Under his own name and such pseudonyms as Walter

Drummond, Iver Jorgenson, Calvin M. Knox, David Osborne and (with Randall Garrett) Robert Randall,

he has had so many books and stories published that he himself has lost track of the totals.

As evidence that the awesome quantity of Silverberg's production has not affected his status as an

admirable literary craftsman, he has been

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a Hugo and Nebula Awards finalist some twenty times-more than any other writer. Among his more

recent books are Thorns (1967-Hugo and Nebula Awards finalist); Tower of Glass (1970-Nebula Award

finalist); The Masks of Time (1968-Nebula Award finalist); Up the Line (1969-Hugo and Nebula

Awards finalist); To Live Again (1969); Downward to Earth (1970); Son of Man (1971). His novella

"Nightwings" won a Hugo Award in 1968. His short story "Passengers" won a Nebula Award in 1969.

Despite his massive literary output, Silverberg has found time to perform diverse duties for

Science Fiction Writers of America, of which he is a past president. He originated the

organization's Hall of Fame anthologies, and edited the first volume in the series.

With the 1971 balloting, Silverberg has added two more Nebula Awards to his total-for his novel A

Time of Changes and for his short story "Good News from the Vatican." He thus ties Samuel R.

Delany for the position of author with the most Nebula Awards (three), and he adds his name to the

select group of authors-including only Delany and Roger Zelazny-who have won two Nebula Awards in

one year.

This is the morning everyone has waited for, when at last the robot cardinal is to be elected

pope. There can no longer be any doubt of the outcome. The conclave has been deadlocked for many

days between the obstinate advocates of Cardinal Asciuga of Milan and Cardinal Carciofo of Genoa,

and word has gone out that a compromise is in the making. All factions now are agreed on the

selection of the robot. This morning I read in Osservatore Romano that the Vatican computer itself

has taken a and in the deliberations. The computer has been strongly urging the candidacy of the

robot. I suppose we should not be surprised by this loyalty among machines. Nor should we let it

distress us. We absolutely must not let it distress us.

"Every era gets the pope it deserves," Bishop FitzPatrick observed somewhat gloomily today at

breakfast. "The proper pope for our times is a robot, certainly. At some future date it may be

desirable for the pope to be a whale, an automobile, a cat, a mountain." Bishop FitzPatrick stands

well over two meters in height and his normal facial expression is a morbid, mournful one. Thus it

is impossible for us to determine whether any particular pronouncement of his reflects existential

despair or placid acceptance. Many years ago he was a star player for the Holy Cross championship

basketball team. He has come to Rome to do research for a biography of St. Marcellus the

Righteous.

We have been watching the unfolding drama of the papal election from an outdoor cafe several

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