Dying Inside (S.F.Masterworks)
by Robert Silverberg

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Book Review: Still not converted
Summary: 3 Stars

The story is about a man, David Selig, who is losing his power having been born with the gift of telepathy. Selig is a Jew, the significance of this is that he seems as self-concious and inward-looking as someone out of a Woody Allen film or a Joseph Heller book. (I've never really understood why Jews are considered to be different - they look pretty much the same as anybody else and racial prejudice usually seems to be caused by xenophobia.) One wonders how much of David Selig is Robert Silverberg - they say that all fiction is partly autobiography and vice-versa.

I would tell you about the plot but there isn't one. The novel is a series of flashbacks to previous lovers, friends and childhood. It doesn't seem to be very well structured this could be because, according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction "RS has said that Tower of Glass and Dying Inside were "assassinated" by the publishers; that is, that the texts as published were regarded by the author as mutilated.". However TEOSF also says "Dying Inside (1972) is a brilliant study of a telepath losing his power.".

I am not a Silverberg fan and have disliked some of his stories mainly because I found them boring. However, Dying Inside is readable, and is almost on a par with stories like Passengers, but I am still not converted!

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