Name: Dying Inside
ISBN: 9781429956772

Dying Inside

From the back cover: David Selig is outwardly unimpressive. His early promise as a student and scholar is unrealised. He has no proper job, he has no girlfriend. But, inside, Selig has the power of a god, for he can probe other people's minds and read their thoughts and feelings. This extraordinary faculty defines his sense of self -- his power is him. But with the onset of middle age, Selig's capacity to read minds is failing fast, and he must struggle to come to terms with that loss -- to accept that he is dying inside...

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bawolffDec 2021

Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg.

Its an older book i read kind of randomly but really liked. It is a novel about a telepath who is slowly losing his ability, delving deeply into the character.

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nazgulnarsilJul 2008

Here is a real list, shorter and MUCH higher quality: 1. The Cyberiad 2. Babel-17 3. The Stars My Destination 4. The Sheep Look Up 5. More Than Human 6. Lord of Light 7. To Your Scattered Bodies Go 8. Earth Abides 9. Dying Inside 10. City 11. Last and First Men 12. Slan 13. The World of Null-A

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jacquesmNov 2023

To save you some scripting:

  Alan Moore - dystopian graphic novel V for Vendetta (serialized 1982–1989)
  Alejandro Jodorowsky Jean Giraud (Moebius) - graphic novel The Incal (1980–1988)
  Anna Kavan - Ice (1967).
  Anne McCaffrey - The Ship Who Sang (1969)
  Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - Пикник на обочине (1972; Piknik na obochine; translated as A Roadside Picnic)
  Barry N. Malzberg - Beyond Apollo (1972)
  Brian Aldiss - Barefoot in the Head (1969)
  Brian Aldiss - Greybeard (1964).
  Chester Anderson - The Butterfly Kid (1967)
  Christopher Priest - Inverted World (1974)
  Cordwainer Smith - Norstrilia (1975, in complete form).
  David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
  Frank Herbert - Dune (1965)
  Frank Miller - graphic novel Rōnin (1983–1984)
  Gary Panter - comic Jimbo (serialized 1977–present)
  Gary Panter - comic strip Dal Tokyo (1983–2007)
  Gene Wolfe - The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972)
  Harlan Ellison’s (ed.) Dangerous Visions (1967)
  Jack Kirby - Fourth World comics (1971–1974).
  Jack Kirby - pre-Fourth World sci-fi comics (1964–1970)
  James Tiptree Jr. - Up the Walls of the World (1978)
  Jane Gaskell - A Sweet, Sweet Summer (1969)
  J.G. Ballard - Crash (1973)
  J.G. Ballard - High-Rise (1975)
  J.G. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition (written 1967, published 1970)
  J.G. Ballard - The Burning World (1964)
  J.G. Ballard - The Crystal World (1966)
  Joanna Russ - We Who Are About To… (serialized 1976; in book form, 1977)
  John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar  (1968).
  John Brunner - The Sheep Look Up (1972)
  John Crowley - Engine Summer (1979)
  John Crowley - The Deep (1975).
  John Sladek - Roderick at Random (1983)
  John Sladek’s - The Müller-Fokker Effect (1970)
  John Varley - The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977)
  John Wagner, Alan Grant, and Carlos Ezquerra - Judge Dredd adventures Block Mania (serialized 10/31/1981 to 12/26/81) and The Apocalypse War (1/2/82 to 6/26/82).
  Josephine Saxton - The Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith (1969)
  Katsuhiro Otomo - manga series Akira (1982–1990)
  Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)
  Michael Moorcock - The English Assassin (1972)
  M. John Harrison - The Pastel City (1971)
  Moebius-s Le Garage Hermétique (The Airtight Garage, 1976–1979)
  Octavia E. Butler-s Kindred (1979)
  Octavia E. Butler - Wild Seed (1980)
  Philip K. Dick - A Maze of Death (1970)
  Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly (1977)
  Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
  Philip K. Dick - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974).
  Philip K. Dick - Martian Time-Slip (1964)
  Philip K. Dick - Now Wait for Last Year (1966)
  Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
  Philip K. Dick - The Unteleported Man (1966)
  Philip K. Dick - Ubik (1969).
  Philip K. Dick - VALIS (1981)
  Richard Brautigan - In Watermelon Sugar (1968).
  Robert Heinlein - Friday (1982).
  Robert Silverberg - Dying Inside (1972)
  Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light (1967)
  Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker (1980)
  Samuel R. Delany - Babel-17 (1966).
  Samuel R. Delany - Dhalgren (1975)
  Samuel R. Delany - Nova (1968)
  Samuel R. Delany - The Einstein Intersection (1967)
  Samuel R. Delany - Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia (1976)
  Stanislaw Lem - Ze wspomnien Ijona Tichego Kongres futurologiczny (The Futurological Congress, 1971)
  Thomas M. Disch - Camp Concentration (1968)
  Thomas Pynchon - Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow (1973)
  Ursula K. Le Guin - Rocannon's World (1966)
  Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed (1974).
  Ursula K. LeGuin - The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
  Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
  Vladimir Nabokov - Ada, or Ardor (1969)
  Vonda N. McIntyre - Dreamsnake (1978)
  Walker Percy - Love in the Ruins (1971)
  William Burroughs - Nova Express (1964)

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