Born With the Dead (the novella) was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was originally published in 1974, winning the Nebula and Locus awards. *** The author now revisits the classic story with Australian author Damien Broderick. Broderick uses Robert Silverberg"s original novella as a starting point for a brilliant leap into the far future, widening the scope and tenor of the original story be revisiting some of the subtler implications of the original story.