"A Time of Changes" Robert Silverberg Spoiler Free Review.

Tonight I review Robert Silverberg's 1971 Nebula Award winning Novel "A Time of Changes". I provide a spoiler free plot overview, discuss my likes, my dislikes, make some recommendations, I put it to the memory test and I rank it on our ever growing sci-fi shed ladder where I have been ranking all the Hugo and/or Nebula award winning novels.

00:00 Intro
00:25 Plot overview
05:05 My Likes
07:18 Dislikes
09:38 Comparing it to his other novels and PKD
11:29 Recommendations
13:53 Ranking
17:30 Your Feedback

Over the last year I have reread 50 Hugo and/or Nebula award winning Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, and I have been ranking them on the ever growing SF Shed Ladder.

I use the following criteria to help me rank these wonderful novels.
1. Concept (how interesting/unique is the SF or F concept)
2. Execution of the concept
3. Characters (interesting character arcs, relatable, interesting)
4. Writing (how much did i enjoy the writing)
5. How memorable are these novels (the memory test)
6. Plot (interesting twists and turns)
7. Ending (does the ending satisfy)

Playlist of all the Hugo Winning Novels
   • Hugo Winners  

Playlist of all the Nebula Winning Novels
   • Nebula Winners  

The Shed Ladder Rankings
1. Hyperion - Dan Simmons
2. Dune - Frank Herbert
3. Gateway Frederik Pohl
4. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr
5. Way Station - Clifford Symak
6. Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
7. Doomsday Book - Connie WIllis
8. To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
9. A Case of Conscience - James Blish
10. Tehanu - Ursula LeGuine
11. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
12. The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuine
13. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuine
14. This Immortal - Roger Zelazny
15. The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C Clarke
16. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
17. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
18. Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
19. Ringworld - Larry Niven
20. The Claw of the Conciliator - Gene Wolfe
21. The Man in the High Castle - Philip K, Dick
22. The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
23. Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold
24. Red Mars - Kin Stanley Robinson
25. Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
26. Moving Mars - Greg Bear
27. A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
28. The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
29. Redshirts - John Scalzi
30. Flowers for Algenon - Daniel Keyes
31. Rite of Passage - Alexei Panshin
32. Among Others - Jo Walton
33. The Uplift War - David Brin
34. A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
35. Startide Rising - David Brin
36. The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera
37. The City and the City - China Mieville
38. Man Plus - Frederik Pohl
39. Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delaney
40. Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang - Kate Wilhelm
41. Double Star - Robert Heinlein
42. A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
43. Ancillary Justice - Anne Leckie
44. Nettle and Bone - T. Kinfisher
45. Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman
46. The Terminal Experiment - Robert J Sawyer
47. The Quantum Rose - Catherine Asaro
48. The Einstein Intersection - Samuel R. Delaney
49. The Big Time - Fritz Leiber
50. No Enemy But Time - Michael Bishop
51. The Falling Woman - Pat Murphy
52. Slow River - Nicola Griffith
53. The Obelisk Gate - N.K Jemisin
53. The Fifth Season - N.K Jemisin
54. The Stone Sky - N.K Jemisin