Dying Inside
Robert Silverberg · 1972
A telepath is losing his power as he ages. Silverberg's meditation on declining ability, middle age, and the horror of becoming ordinary reads closer to Bellow or Roth than Asimov, while remaining rigorously science-fictional. The most literary SF novel of the 1970s.
The case against
Selig pities himself for two hundred pages and Silverberg makes the wallowing the whole architecture; misery is the plot. The 1972 furniture has not aged gracefully, least of all the Black militant student rendered in dialect that lands somewhere between dated and indefensible. The prose deserves admiration. The company inside Selig's head is another matter.
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