Mirnes’s review of Dying Inside > Likes and Comments

Love the premise of this one! I've not heard of this author but I'm definitely going to check this one out after reading your words. Very few sci-fi novels focus on the human than on the tech elements, so this has to be an interesting one! Thanks for your review! 😊

Rosh (Trying to catch up!) wrote: "Love the premise of this one! I've not heard of this author but I'm definitely going to check this one out after reading your words. Very few sci-fi novels focus on the human than on the tech eleme..."

Silverberg is a great writer, believe me. Start with this one or "The Book of Skulls" which has even less "SF" elements. You'll enjoy whichever you choose. In "Book of Skulls" he's done tremendous job.

I don't mind SF elements, as long as the author doesn't focus only on SF at the cost of everything else. Will look up The Book of Skulls as well. Thanks for the rec!

Rosh (Trying to catch up!) wrote: "I don't mind SF elements, as long as the author doesn't focus only on SF at the cost of everything else. Will look up The Book of Skulls as well. Thanks for the rec!"

Unfortunately, a lot of people rejects to read SF because they think it's all about lasers, robots and intergalactic wars when in fact there are some great pieces of literature there. Old school SF writers were more focused on other things, they were using genre to explore and talk about different things. Not sure that new ones are into that except perhaps few of them. I guess it's about the demand of the market. I've decided to read all novels from "SF Masterworks" series, which includes both of mentioned Silverberg's novels. Lets see what else I'll discover.

I agree about it being a demand of the market. I think many contemporary SF fans want the tech side and don't care about the rest. But I would prefer the holistic package. Will keep an eye out for what other gems you unearth. I am not much into SF, but I do like a good story. Hence tried-and-tested recs are always better. :)

Great review and sounds like a great story. I loved Book of Skulls too. Compelling.

I have this whole long theory about what is SF and what is horror and what is fantasy and how they overlap. (Like how all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares). I think everyone misunderstands SF because of the hard SF stereotypes. I’ve read so many great things through the SF Masterworks and SF Gateway series. Things most people wouldn’t consider SF though I would

Lizz wrote: "Great review and sounds like a great story. I loved Book of Skulls too. Compelling.

I have this whole long theory about what is SF and what is horror and what is fantasy and how they overlap. (Li..."

Yeah, stereotypes don't do justice when it comes to genre literature as most people just ditch those novels straight away as they're fantasy or SF, but they're so wrong.

Another one of, to put it bluntly, genre novels, which show how much people who avoid science fiction lose by skipping certain works.

I had a University teacher telling the whole promotion not to read science fiction, but to read André Gide instead.

🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♀️ 🤦🏻 🤦🏼 🤦🏽 🤦🏾 Why not both, pray?


I am looking forward to discovering this classic SF novel. Thanks for your engaging review, Mirnes!

P.E. wrote: "Another one of, to put it bluntly, genre novels, which show how much people who avoid science fiction lose by skipping certain works.

I had a University teacher telling the whole promotion not to..."

Unfortunately, there are people who think of SciFi as spaceship battles, lasers and aliens mostly, but there are real literary gems among them. Especially older generation of SciFi writers who expressed a lot of ideas in their novels. I've read three Silverberg's novels in a short period of time and was hooked. This one is the least SciFi, it would better go as speculative fiction.