# Needle in a Timestack

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-silverberg/needle-in-a-timestack/9781473229204

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-silverberg/needle-in-a-timestack/9781473229204.json

![Needle in a Timestack](https://quivercdn.com/covers/gollancz/robert-silverberg/needle-in-a-timestack_978-14-7322-920-4.jpg?v=2026-05-10%2018%3A55%3A22)

- Book: [Needle in a Timestack](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-silverberg/needle-in-a-timestack) ([Needle in a Timestack.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-silverberg/needle-in-a-timestack.md))
- Authors: [Robert Silverberg](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-silverberg)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-14-7322-920-4
- Published: 2021-06-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Needle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best - intelligent, inventive, and visionary. This collection showcases his talent for thought-provoking science fiction, ranging in themes from time travel to space travel, the media to mortality. In the titular story - now a feature film by Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley - a jealous ex-husband warps time in a vindictive attempt to destroy his former wife's new marriage. Thirty-one identical sons have a shocking surprise for their mother in " There Was an Old Woman". The prophetic " The Pain Peddlers" depicts reality TV in a way that allows viewers to revel in a voyeuristic, adrenaline-fueled rush. Also included are Silverberg's Hugo Award-winning " Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another", and the Locus Award winner " The Secret Sharer", a Joseph Conrad-inspired tale of a ship captain drawn into a strange alliance with a stowaway.