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Title: The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman ISBN: 0-7434-5274-7 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tragic Tale of Self Induced Exile
Comment: Dick Muller was a hero... that is, until an encounter with an alien race left him unable to be tolerated in a human's prescence. When the human race rejected him, he left...to a planet with a giant maze on it. No one has ever reached the center of the maze. Now the human race needs Dick Muller to save the planet but first they must find him and convince him to come back and save the race that sent him into exile.
This book is great. My favorite book of all time. I highly recommend it to everyone!
Rating: 4
Summary: Sophocles Redux
Comment: Mankind is threatened by an alien that strips us of our free will. We can't communicate with these aliens, so we can't fight or appease them. Our only hope is Dick Muller, who, in mankind's first contact with an alien race, was permanently maimed and cannot live with humans anymore. However, it is precisely this injury that gives him the opportunity to let the aliens know we are a thinking race. The only question is-will he reject the human race that previously rejected him?
This modern retelling of the myth of Philoctetes is short, sweet, and to the point. It doesn't pause for discursive considerations of the maning of life or the nature of the human beast; that would belabor a subtle point and lose the larger meaning. The whole piece is a careful consideration of the limits of the human animal, and what makes it possible to live with one another.
This silver-age SF gem presaged such Silverberg classics as Dying Inside, a more careful meditation on the same themes. It also dovetails neatly into the New Wave of science fiction, in which the great source of speculation isn't scientific advancement, but the limits of the human being. All in all, it becomes a forward-thinking insight using a framework as old as time. Though imperfect, it belongs to a class of book that just doesn't get written anymore.
Rating: 4
Summary: A complex and fascinating epistemological web
Comment: After an encounter with an alien race that leaves him with a strange 'disease', Richard Muller exiles himself to Lemnos, a place famous for a vast, deadly maze that was built there long ago. He alone succeeded in getting to its center; now, veteran Charles Boardman, the one who convinced Muller to go on that ill-fated mission, and the young Ned Rawlins, whose late father was Muller's friend, must get Muller out of the maze and back to Earth for one last, heroic task (to do so, they, too, must master the maze). Getting through the maze won't be as difficult as it will be to actually convince Muller to follow them; thus, a psychological battle plays out during most of the book. In my mind, this isn't as fascinating as are all the different paths leading to different sorts of knowledge: in the first third of the work, Boardman's crew uses robots programmed to replicate the information that was saved during earlier, unsuccessful tries to get through the maze - that way, human lives are saved while the crew can afford to lose dozens of robots; some of the maze's sections are easier for the robots to go through, because they can more easily doubt their sense perception, whereas humans must close their eyes so that they won't be confused by appearances; meanwhile, Muller, having lived nine years in the maze and thus knowing it better than anyone, is still speculating about its possible origin, hidden secrets and traps. The only limitation to the various speculations is, plainly... death.
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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: Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg ISBN: 0743435087 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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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: Up the Line by Robert Silverberg ISBN: 0743444973 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Brainwave : The Greatest Masterpiece by the Science Fiction Grandmaster by Poul Anderson ISBN: 0743474864 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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