false <![CDATA[Dying Inside]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179887709m/968902.jpg 968902 20 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... 1660120 book 1972 Dying Inside total:244|5:82|4:80|3:64|2:14|1:4| 244 954 464 36 4 7 false false Mon Jun 02 08:45:56 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 07:15:08 -0700 2008
I like pulp adventurers with fantastic tropes, but that's hardly the sum of either science fiction or fantasy.
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I felt like the telepath, the mind-reader, the voyeur while reading this novel. Silverberg sucked me in to the mind of David Selig so completely that I had to force myself to take a break from the book after hours of voracious reading to come up for air and perspective. It ap...more...]]> 5 5 false false Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 18:34:15 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 21:11:26 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 28 03:17:47 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 03:32:41 -0700 2009
Instead, the story is about a p...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 12:57:26 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:47:38 -0700 2009
Anyone with this power shouldn’t be living a boring life, but he did. He a...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Apr 10 09:27:24 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 09:28:16 -0700 2009
Michael Dirda, the esteemed literary critic whose column appears weekly in the Washington Post, offers a glowing review of the new edition of Robert Silverberg’s classic DYING INSIDE. Dirda writes:



‘Now widely regarded as Robert Sil...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 14:22:32 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 10:46:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 9 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 17:30:48 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 20:45:28 -0700 2009 Dying Inside this morning and I'm still not sure what to say about it. Perhaps I should start by saying that I don't believe this is science fiction at all. I kept looking for the science part and it just wasn't there. I believe that it would have been classified as general fiction if ...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 01:20:47 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 06:30:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 15:36:36 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 15:44:18 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Apr 18 00:11:21 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 00:12:31 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Tue Apr 01 09:03:47 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 07:43:48 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jun 08 07:42:56 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 07:42:56 -0700 2009 The Washington Post: "Now widely regarded as Robert Silverberg's masterpiece, Dying Inside, first published in 1972, has just been reissued in a handsome trade paperback with a new preface by its author, one of science fiction's most distinguished writers. ... Above all, though, Dying Inside is...more...]]> 4 4 false false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 06:10:06 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 06:25:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 20:06:32 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 16:00:33 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 09 08:30:41 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 08 07:19:44 -0700 2009 literature. If it was, then Dying Inside would certainly have gotten more
widespread attention or even considered for prestigious literary awards.

As it stands, I never would have heard of it if not for ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 02:33:11 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 00:39:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Mon Oct 01 10:25:21 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 05 07:32:53 -0800 2009 Dying Inside with references to T. S. Eliot, Shakespeare, French Decadent poets, Kierkegaard, James Joyce, and many more literary and cultural figures, sometimes acknowledging the references and most times expe...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 18 00:18:07 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 07:38:19 -0700 2009
Wonder if Robert S. just tries to publish this under a different title and under a pseudonym, the book might be popular in the mainstream literature as well. ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 22:22:44 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 09:37:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=968902