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Title: Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg ISBN: 0-7434-3508-7 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dying Inside, A Forgotten Masterpiece on Alienation
Comment: "Dying Inside," by Robert Silverberg, is an amazing masterpiece on the subject of alienation which, unfortunately, seems to have fallen out of the public consciousness in the 1990's. David Selig is a telepath who is losing his power. He is also losing his only source of feedback for human emotion and real contact with other human beings. Reduced to hacking out term papers for otherwise engaged Columbia University students, Selig's superhuman powers serve only his prurient, voyeuristic interests. Selig has never realized the potential of his power and his regrets are underscored by his constant referral to T.S. Eliot's masterpiece of modern anti-heroic poetry, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Although he is becoming trapped within himself, Selig has a reconciliation with his normal sister and his fading power, which is ultimately affirmative and uplifting. Silverberg won the Hugo Award for "Dying Inside" and the book secured his place as a master of modern fiction. Although Selig is superhuman, he is really Everyman, trying to define himself in a vast and confusing world. His story is a personal and painful, yet rewarding, trip into the human conscience. While exploring basic questions from the entire range of man's emotional experience, "Dying Inside" remains grounded in the eternal modern question of the consequences of action, inaction and the value of human existence. In interviews, Silverberg has revealed how emotionally draining it was to write this book. His personal sacrifice should be rewarded with a periodic reprinting of this powerful and urgent portrait.
Rating: 5
Summary: Worth finding...
Comment: I have read almost all of Silverberg's novels written before 1980, and believe that "Dying Inside" is his best. It is unfortunate that it is out of print, but one can find it with a bit of effort. My daughter found a used copy in a small bookstore in NYC -- I have since re-read the book and found it even more poignant than the first time I read it. Readers not interested in science fiction should take the plunge into the genre with this book, as it explores the psychological aspects of alienation that can result from possessing a rare quality (or affliction). The main character of the story, David Selig, struggles with his relationships with others because of his ability to know exactly what they are thinking, feeling, etc. He learns that even his parents aren't always loving despite what they say. His unique loneliness is heartbreaking. Take the time to find this book. You may conclude that it is one of the most powerful science fiction novels ever written.
Rating: 4
Summary: Aging and regret from a sci-fi perspective
Comment: Robert Silverberg started out in the outlandish word of sci-fi pulps and has written about countless fantastic worlds and peoples since. But the novel that is often considered his best is one of his more earthly, Dying Inside.
Dying Inside is the story of David Selig, an aging New York loafer who is loosing his ability to read minds. The novel takes a non-linear approach to examines Selig's life, flip-floping between his childhood feud with his adopted sister, his uncomfortable friendship with a callous young man with similar powers, his uneasy romance in that uneasy year 1968 and his depressing present, forging term papers for Colombia jocks and losing his powers.
What is remarkable about Dying Inside is that Silverberg writes more about old flames, squandered youth and other ordinary lost opportunities than about special abilities. Silverberg is writing about (and writing about quite well) a person who wasted extraordinary potential, something anyone of a certain age can relate to. The further one reads Dying Inside, the more it becomes apparent that the book is not about superpowers but about life and aging from a unique perspective. For science fiction lovers or fans or anyone merely looking for a good novel, Dying Inside is sure to be a winner.
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Title: Nightwings by Robert Silverberg ISBN: 0743474465 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg ISBN: 0446340618 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1986 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Son of Man by Robert Silverberg ISBN: 0575075015 Publisher: Gollancz Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg ISBN: 0553230573 Publisher: Bantam Books (Mm) Pub. Date: 01 December, 1982 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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Title: The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman ISBN: 0743452747 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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