{"product_id":"2940016527055","title":"The Palace at Midnight: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Five","description":"Somehow, for all my outward pretence of cold-eyed professionalism, all my insistence that writing is simply a job like any other, I've discovered to my surprise and chagrin that there's more than that going on around here, that I write as much out of karmic necessity and some inescapable inner need to rededicate my own skills constantly to my--what? My craft? My art? My profession? I wrote these stories because the only way of earning a living I have ever had has been by writing, but mainly, I have to admit, I wrote these stories because I couldn't not write them. Well, so be it. They involved me in a lot of hard work, but for me, at least, the results justify the toil. I'm glad I wrote them. Writing them, it turns out, was important for me, and even pleasurable, in a curiously complex after-the-fact kind of way. May they give you pleasure now too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Robert Silverberg, from his Introduction","brand":"Subterranean Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170561376496,"sku":"2940016527055","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016527055_p0.jpg?v=1763637393","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016527055","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}