robot pope, and Born With the Dead, the 1974 novella about the beneficiaries of a technique which guarantees life after death. A strain of historical works appeared in the 1980ΓÇÖs: Lord ValentineΓÇÖs Castle (1980), Lord of Darkness (1983) and Gilgamesh the King (1984). In this new phase of his career, Silverberg continued to win critical praise for his work, with a 1985 Nebula for his novella ΓÇ£Sailing to ByzantiumΓÇ¥ and a Hugo for the 1986 novella ΓÇ£Gilgamesh in the Outback.ΓÇ¥ Also of note in this period is his science-fiction rendition of Joseph ConradΓÇÖs classic tale of psychological exposition, ΓÇ£The Secret Sharer.ΓÇ¥
