Sci Fi - Masterworks 2005

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Robert Silverberg Dying Inside Pbk published April 2005 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0575075252

David Selig’s life is not impressive: he has no job and no meaningful relationships. And yet, Selig has the power of a god, for he can read other people’s minds. Although it has been a mixed blessing, this extraordinary ability defines his sense of self. But now, with the onset of middle age, his capacity to probe minds is fading and Selig is struggling to come to terms with the knowledge that he is dying inside…
SF Masterworks is a library of the greatest SF ever written, chosen with the help of. today’s leading SF writers and editors. These books show that. genuinely innovative SF is as exciting today as when it was first written.
‘A brilliant study of a telepath losing his powers’ The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction
‘One of the best-written SF novels in many years’ Christopher Priest
‘Not merely a deeply imagined book but a deeply felt one’ Brian Aldiss
About The Author
Robert Silverberg was born in New York in 1935. He began to write while studying for his BA. By 1956 he was publishing prolifically and he was given the Hugo Award for Most Promising New Author in that year. For the next three years Silverberg turned out short stories under numerous pseudonyms for Amazing Stories, Fantastic, Science Fiction Adventures and Super-Science Fiction. While continuing a prodigious output of SF novels (usually re-written short stories), Silverberg branched out into non fiction during the 60's with such titles as The Golden Dream (1967) and Mound-Builders of Ancient America (1968). In the late 60's Silverberg started writing more stylized and intense work, such as Thorns (1967) and The Man in the Maze (1969). A Time of Changes (1971) won the Nebula Award, as did several of his novellas. He was awarded a Hugo in 1969 for the novella Nightwings which was later expanded into a novel of the same name. Having written solidly for so long, Silverberg quit for four years after Shadrach in the Furnace (1976), disenchanted and exhausted. He resumed his work with Lord Valentine's Castle (1980) and has continued to write ever since. Throughout his career he has also contributed to the field of SF with the many original anthologies he has compiled. The most highly regarded of these was New Dimensions, which ran to 12 volumes, finally finishing in 1981.

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