Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is a prolific American science fiction author and editor. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF since 2004.
| Year & Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 Hugo Award | Most Promising New Author | Won | |
| 1984 Edward E. Smith Memorial Award | Won | ||
| 1985 Forry Awards | Lifetime Achievement | Won | [1] |
| 1987 Inkpot Award | Won | ||
| 1989 Interzone Readers Poll | All-Time Best SF Author | 9th Place | [2] |
| 1999 Science Fiction Hall of Fame | Living Inductee | Inducted | [3] |
| 2001 Hugo Award | Retro Hugos 1951: Best Fan Writer | Won | |
| 2004 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award | Won | ||
| 2018 First Fandom Hall of Fame award | Won |
| Work | Year and Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Hawksbill Station" | 1968 Hugo Award | Novella | Finalist | |
| 1968 Nebula Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| Thorns | 1968 Nebula Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| 1968 Hugo Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| The Masks of Time | 1969 Nebula Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| "Nightwings" (Novella) | 1969 Hugo Award | Novella | Won | |
| 1969 Nebula Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| "To Jorslem" | 1970 Nebula Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| 1970 Hugo Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| Up the Line | 1970 Nebula Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| 1970 Hugo Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1975 Seiun Award | Translated Long Work | Won | ||
| "Passengers" | 1970 Nebula Award | Short Story | Won | |
| 1970 Hugo Award | Short Story | Nominated | ||
| "The World Outside" | 1971 Hugo Award | Novella | Nominated | [4] |
| Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One | 1971 Locus Award | Anthology/Collection | Won | [5] |
| Great Short Novels of Science Fiction | 1971 Locus Award | Anthology/Collection | Nominated | |
| Alpha One | 1971 Locus Award | Anthology/Collection | Nominated | |
| "The Throwbacks" | 1971 Locus Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
| Tower of Glass | 1971 Nebula Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| 1971 Hugo Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1971 Locus Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1971 Ditmar Award | International Fiction | Nominated | ||
| 2013 Geffen Award | Translated Science Fiction Novel | Won | ||
| Downward to the Earth | 1971 Locus Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| Nightwings (Novel) | 1972 Seiun Award | Translated Long Work | Won | |
| 1976 Prix Apollo Award | Won | |||
| A Time of Changes | 1972 Nebula Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| 1972 Hugo Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1972 Ditmar Award | International Fiction | Nominated | ||
| 1972 Locus Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| 2005 Prometheus Award | Hall of Fame | Nominated | [6] | |
| Son of Man | 1972 Locus Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| "Good News from the Vatican" | 1972 Nebula Award | Short Story | Won | |
| The Second Trip | 1972 Locus Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| New Dimensions 1 | 1972 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | [7] |
| "In Entropy's Jaws" | 1972 Locus Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
| "All the Way Up, All the Way Down" | 1972 Locus Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
| The World Inside | 1972 Locus Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| New Dimensions II | 1973 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | [8] |
| The Day the Sun Stood Still | 1973 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| The Book of Skulls | 1973 Hugo Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| 1973 Nebula Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1973 Locus Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | ||
| "When We Went to See the End of the World" | 1973 Nebula Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| 1973 Hugo Award | Short Story | Nominated | ||
| 1973 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | ||
| "(Now+n), (Now-n)" | 1973 Locus Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
| Dying Inside | 1973 Nebula Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| 1973 Hugo Award | Novel | Finalist | ||
| 1973 Ditmar Award | International Fiction | Nominated | ||
| 1973 Locus Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1975 Locus Award | Best All-time Novel | 19th Place | [9] | |
| "Caliban" | 1973 Locus Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
| "Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine" | 1974 Locus Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
| "The Feast of St. Dionysus" | 1974 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| 1974 Jupiter Award | Novella | Won | ||
| "Many Mansions" | 1974 Locus Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
| New Dimensions 3 | 1974 Hugo Award | Professional Editor | Nominated | |
| 1974 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | [10] | |
| Chains of the Sea | 1974 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| "In the Group" | 1974 Locus Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
| 2007 Premio Ignotus | Foreign Story | Nominated | [11] | |
| Threads of Time | 1975 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | [12] |
| New Dimensions IV | 1975 Hugo Award | Professional Editor | Nominated | |
| 1975 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | ||
| "Born with the Dead" | 1975 Nebula Award | Novella | Won | |
| 1975 Jupiter Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| 1975 Hugo Award | Novella | Finalist | ||
| 1975 Locus Award | Novella | Won | ||
| Born with the Dead (Collection) | 1975 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| "Schwartz Between the Galaxies" | 1975 Hugo Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| 1975 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | ||
| "In the House of Double Minds" | 1975 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| New Dimensions 5 | 1976 Hugo Award | Professional Editor | Nominated | |
| 1976 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | [13] | |
| The New Atlantis | 1976 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| Epoch (with Roger Elwood) | 1976 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| The Feast of St. Dionysus (Collection) | 1976 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| The Stochastic Man | 1976 Hugo Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| 1976 Nebula Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1976 John W. Campbell Memorial Award | Science Fiction Novel | Nominated | ||
| 1976 Locus Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| Shadrach in the Furnace | 1977 Nebula Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| 1977 Hugo Award | Novel | Finalist | ||
| 1977 Locus Award | Novel | Nominated | ||
| The Crystal Ship | 1977 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| Capricorn Games | 1977 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| New Dimensions 6 | 1977 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | [14] |
| The Best of Robert Silverberg | 1977 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| New Dimensions 8 | 1979 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | [15] |
| Alpha 9 | 1979 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| The Edge of Space | 1980 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | [16] |
| The Best of New Dimensions | 1980 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| New Dimensions 11 | 1981 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | [17] |
| The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (with Martin H. Greenberg) | 1981 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels (with Martin H. Greenberg) | 1981 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| Lord Valentine's Castle | 1981 Hugo Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| 1981 Balrog Award | Novel | Nominated | [18] | |
| 1981 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | Won | ||
| 1987 Locus Award | All-Time Best Fantasy Novel | 25th Place | [19] | |
| "Our Lady of the Sauropods" | 1981 Hugo Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| 1981 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | ||
| New Dimensions 12 (with Marta Randall) | 1982 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | [20] |
| "The Regulars" | 1982 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "The Palace at Midnight" | 1982 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "Waiting for the Earthquake" | 1982 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "A Thousand Paces Along the Via Dolorosa" | 1982 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "A Thief in Ni-moya" | 1982 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "The Desert of Stolen Dreams" | 1982 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| "The Pope of the Chimps" | 1983 Nebula Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| 1983 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | [21] | |
| Majipoor Chronicles | 1983 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| "Thesme and the Ghayrog" | 1983 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| "Gianni" | 1983 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| The Nebula Awards 18 | 1984 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | [22] |
| The Fantasy Hall of Fame (with Martin H. Greenberg) | 1984 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces (with Martin H. Greenberg) | 1984 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| "Homefaring" | 1984 Nebula Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| 1984 SF Chronicle Award | Novella | Nominated | [23] | |
| 1984 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| "Needle in a Timestack" | 1984 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "Basileus" | 1984 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "Amanda and the Alien" | 1984 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "Multiples" | 1984 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| Valentine Pontifex | 1984 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party | 1985 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | [24] |
| "Tourist Trade" | 1985 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "The Affair" | 1985 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| Gilgamesh the King | 1985 Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | Nominated | |
| 2009 Tähtifantasia Award | Shortlisted | |||
| "Sunrise on Pluto" | 1986 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | [25] |
| "Sailing to Byzantium" | 1986 Hugo Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| 1986 Nebula Award | Novella | Won | ||
| 1986 SF Chronicle Award | Novella | Nominated | [26] | |
| 1986 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| Tom O'Bedlam | 1986 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| Beyond the Safe Zone | 1987 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | [27] |
| "Blindsight" | 1987 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "Against Babylon" | 1987 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "Gilgamesh in the Outback" | 1987 Hugo Award | Novella | Won | |
| 1987 Nebula Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| 1987 SF Chronicle Award | Novella | Nominated | [28] | |
| 1987 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | 5th Place | [29] | |
| 1987 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| Star of Gypsies | 1987 Locus Award | Novel | Nominated | |
| "The Secret Sharer" | 1988 Nebula Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| 1988 Hugo Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| 1988 SF Chronicle Award | Novella | Won | [30] | |
| 1988 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | 3rd Place | [31] | |
| 1988 Locus Award | Novella | Won | ||
| Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder | 1988 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| "The Iron Star" | 1988 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "Gilgamesh in Uruk" | 1989 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | 9th Place | [32] |
| "At Winter's End" | 1989 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | 5th Place | [33] |
| 1989 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | ||
| "We Are for the Dark" | 1989 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | 10th Place | [34] |
| 1989 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| "House of Bones" | 1989 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "The Dead Man's Eyes" | 1989 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "Hannibal's Elephants" | 1989 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "Tales from the Venia Woods" | 1990 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "To the Promised Land" | 1990 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "A Sleep and a Forgetting" | 1990 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" | 1990 Nebula Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| 1990 Hugo Award | Novelette | Won | ||
| 1990 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novelette | 3rd Place | [35] | |
| 1990 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | ||
| 2001 Premio Ignotus | Foreign Short Story | Won | ||
| "In Another Country" | 1990 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | 9th Place | [36] |
| 1990 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| The Queen of Springtime (aka: The New Springtime) | 1990 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| Universe 1 (with Karen Haber) | 1991 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| "Hot Sky" | 1991 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "Lion Time in Timbuctoo" | 1991 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | 9th Place | [37] |
| 1991 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| 1995 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories | Nominated | [38] | |
| "An Outpost of the Empire" | 1992 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| "A Tip on a Turtle" | 1992 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| The Face of the Waters | 1992 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Novel | Nominated | [39] |
| 1996 Kurd Laßwitz Award | Foreign Work | Nominated | [40] | |
| Universe 2 (with Karen Haber) | 1993 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| "Thebes of the Hundred Gates" | 1993 HOMer Awards | Novella | Nominated | [41] |
| 1993 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume 1: Secret Sharers | 1993 Locus Award | Collection | Won | |
| "Looking for the Fountain" | 1993 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "The Sri Lanka Position" | 1994 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| Universe 3 (with Karen Haber) | 1995 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| "Via Roma" | 1995 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | 9th Place | [42] |
| 1995 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| "The Red Blaze is the Morning" | 1996 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "Hot Times in Magma City" | 1996 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| "Diana of the Hundred Breasts" | 1997 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "The Tree That Grew from the Sky" | 1997 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| "Death Do Us Part" | 1997 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| 1998 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novelette | 10th Place | [43] | |
| Reflections and Refractions: Thoughts on Science-Fiction, Science and Other Matters | 1998 Hugo Award | Related Work | Nominated | |
| 1998 Locus Award | Non-Fiction | Nominated | ||
| A Century of Science Fiction, 1950 - 1959 | 1998 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| "On the Inside" | 1998 Science Fiction Age Readers Poll | Short Story | Won | [44] |
| 1998 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | ||
| "Waiting for the End" | 1998 Sidewise Awards | Short Form | Nominated | [45] |
| 1999 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novelette | 7th Place | [46] | |
| 1999 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | ||
| Hot Sky at Midnight | 1998 Kurd Laßwitz Award | Foreign Work | Nominated | [47] |
| Child of Time (with Isaac Asimov) | 1998 Kurd Laßwitz Award | Foreign Work | Nominated | [48] |
| "Beauty in the Night" | 1998 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy | 1999 Alex Awards | Won | ||
| 1999 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | Nominated | ||
| 1999 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | ||
| The Avram Davidson Treasury (as editor) (with Grania Davis) | 1999 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional | Nominated | ||
| 1999 Locus Award | Collection | Won | ||
| "Getting to Know the Dragon" | 1999 Sidewise Awards | Short Form | Nominated | [49] |
| 2000 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | ||
| "A Hero of the Empire" | 1999 Sidewise Awards | Short Form | Nominated | [50] |
| 2000 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | ||
| "The Colonol in Autumn" | 1999 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| The Alien Years | 1999 Locus Award | SF Novel | Nominated | |
| 2001 Kurd Laßwitz Award | Foreign Work | Nominated | [51] | |
| Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction | 2000 Locus Award | Anthology | Won | |
| 2001 Premio Ignotus | Collected Work | Nominated | [52] | |
| The Positronic Man (with Isaac Asimov) | 2001 Seiun Award | Translated Long Work | Won | |
| Sailing to Byzantium (Collection) | 2001 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| "The Millenium Express" | 2001 Locus Award | Short Story | Nominated | |
| Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 | 2002 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| "With Caesar in the Underworld" | 2002 Sidewise Awards | Short Form | Nominated | [53] |
| 2003 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novella | 3rd Place | [54] | |
| Robert Silverberg Presents the Great SF Stories: 1964 (with Martin H. Greenberg) | 2003 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| "Reign of Terror" | 2003 Sidewise Awards | Short Form | Nominated | [55] |
| 2004 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novelette | 7th Place | [56] | |
| "The Second Wave" | 2003 Asimov's Readers' Poll | Novelette | 10th Place | [57] |
| Science Fiction: The Best of 2002 (with Karen Haber) | 2004 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy | 2004 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| Roma Eterna | 2004 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| Between Worlds | 2005 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| Phases of the Moon: Stories from Six Decades | 2005 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| "Against the Current" | 2008 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "The Emperor and the Maula" | 2008 Locus Award | Novella | Nominated | |
| Trips: The Collected Stories, Volume 4 | 2010 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| "The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale" | 2010 Locus Award | Novelette | Nominated | |
| "A Piece of the Great World" | 2011 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire | Foreign Short story/Collection of Foreign Short Stories | Nominated | [58] |
| Musings and Meditations | 2012 Locus Award | Non-Fiction | Nominated | |
| The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Seven: We Are for the Dark | 2013 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Eight: Hot Times in Magma City | 2014 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| Tales of Majipoor | 2014 RUSA CODES Reading List | Science Fiction | Shortlisted | [59] |
| The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express | 2015 Locus Award | Collection | Nominated | |
| Roma Eterna | 2015 Italia Awards | International Novel | Won | [60] |
| Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro) | 2017 Hugo Award | Related Work | Nominated | |
| Time and Time Again | 2018 Foreword INDIE | Science Fiction - Adult Fiction | Won/Gold | [61] |