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Title	:	Dying Inside
Author	:	Robert Silverberg
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2002 by iBooks (first published October 1972)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction

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David Selig was born with an awesome power -- the ability to look deep into the human heart, to probe the darkest truths hidden in the secret recesses of the soul. With reckless abandon, he used his talent in the pursuit of pleasure. Then, one day, his power began to die... Universally acclaimed as Robert Silverberg's masterwork, Dying Inside is a vivid, harrowing portrait of a man who squandered a remarkable gift, of a superman who had to learn what it was to be human.

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Original Title:	Dying Inside
ISBN:	0743435087 (ISBN13: 9780743435086)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	David Selig
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1973), Nebula Award Nominee for Novel (1972), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1973), Ditmar Award Nominee for Best International Long Fiction (1973)

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DYING INSIDE is a great character study from an outstanding author, Robert Silverberg.

"The sensory shutdown is not always a willed event, naturally. It happens to us whether we like it or not. If we don't climb into the box ourselves, we'll get shoved in anyway. That's what I mean about entropy inevitably nailing us all in the long run. No matter how vital, how vigorous, how world-devouring we are, the inputs dwindle as time goes by. Sight, hearing, touch, smell-everything goes, as good old Will S. said, and we end up sans teeth, sans eyes, sans tastes, sans everything. Or, as

...I can see why this is a notable book among it's contemporaries. Silverberg approaches the novel in a way you don't see a lot in science fiction novels. It is a pretty dark and introspective book. I'm not sure everybody will appreciate the ending but I thought it was fitting. Dying Inside is a book that can make the reader uncomfortable by laying bare the innermost thoughts and feelings of the characters. It usually isn't pretty, but like it or not, most of us will recognize a lot in what

A Goodreads friend recently asked if Silverberg lacked the matinee firepower of Heinlein or Asimov because he had no masterwork, no centerpiece to which critics could point, no one work that served as an identity. Silverberg, Grandmaster though he is, lacks a Stranger in a Strange Land or Foundation or Dune.I submit here, to the court of science fiction literature, that Dying Inside is such a work.Dying Inside is Silverbergs 1972 science fiction / fantasy classic about telepathy and so much

If you met David Selig in real life, you wouldn't like him. In fact, you might even be repulsed. You know it, he knows it, the book knows it. There is an overwhelming sense of awareness at how unlikable the main character is, and he even asks the question, "Would I be this screwed up if I wasn't telepathic? Did my telepathy cause my misery, or would I be miserable anyway?"Most books I've read in which the prominent characters possess some kind of supernatural ability usually have the character

Works of science fiction, more so than in other literature genres, can succeed through the ideas presented instead of the way in which those ideas are presented. Many of the classic writers of the genre, including Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein, became classic because of their ideas, even though they weren't impressive prose stylists. Thus, because of the relevance of ideas in the genre, the premise of a science fiction book can be of inflated importance. Sometimes a great premise alone can make

After reading a couple of only average Silverberg novels, it's great to have my faith in the author's ability reaffirmed by reading another of his greats.Like The Book of Skulls this is almost only incidentally SF, that is more character driven than anything else. Yes, it is about someone who is a telepath, one of the classic tropes of the genre, but it is never really rationalised or understood. But that wasn't really the point, rather it was about how someone coped with being different from