Lion Time in Timbuctoo: The Collected Stories Volume 6: v. 6 (Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg)

The stories in Volume 6 of the Collected Stories were written between 1989 and 1995, appearing in Playboy and in shared-world anthologies.

LION TIME IN TIMBUCTOO: the Black Death of 1348 wiped out nearly all the population of Western Europe instead of just one fourth, and the survivors were unable to resist the westward march of the expansionist Ottoman Turks…
A TIP ON A TURTLE: A mysterious tall man has the knack of knowing which turtle will win the races held in a Caribbean hotel. But then, he knows everything.
IN THE CLONE ZONE: seven years ahead of the headlines about the cloned sheep Dolly, Silverberg wrote this sinister story about human cloning…
HUNTERS IN THE FOREST: a nasty little item in which the most dangerous beast turns out not to be the obvious one.
A LONG NIGHT’S VIGIL AT THE TEMPLE: the only science-fiction story ever written as a homage to J.R.R. Tolkien.
IT COMES AND GOES: an odd little story, occupying the hazy borderline between science-fiction and fantasy, about substance abuse.
LOOKING FOR THE FOUNTAIN: An alternate America: Spanish conquistadores in the New World and a vagrant band of Crusaders.
THE WAY TO SPOOK CITY: A brilliant icy sheen lights everything up in the Occupied Zone, but for a spooky patch of darkness.
THE RED BLAZE IS THE MORNING: the woeful story of a veteran archaeologist in the last days of his career.
DEATH DO US PART: A quasi-immortal falls in love with someone of normal lifespan.
THE INVASION DIARIES OF HENRY JAMES: James’s eyewitness account of the War of the Worlds.
CROSSING INTO THE EMPIRE: the mighty capital
of a great empire vanishes… and reappearS in modern-day Chicago.
THE SECOND SHEILD: Metaphorical matter about the artist’s anguished struggles.