Robert Silverberg - Thorns hooliganism Edward Benson is listening for

Edward Benson is listening for footsteps on the stairs

and metaphysical exploration

and enlightening (and disgusting) for all

the Stewart Royal Commission on drugs and Nugan Hand

my absolute favorite is the final essay

Robert Silverberg - Thorns hooliganism Edward Benson is listening forDuncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people's pain. He feeds off it, and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on Minner Burris, a space traveller whose body was taken apart by alien surgeons and then put back together again differently. Burris' pain is constant. And so is that of Lona Kelvin, used by scientists to supply eggs for 100 children and then