[Note: In the first paragraph of chapter 25 there is a one line typo, which has been marked in square brackets.]

 

 

“David Selig, an academic who never quite made it, is as Jewishly self-revealing as Portnoy, but his complaint is different: ever since he was a lad he could read people’s minds, a facility that he found great fun at first but gradually came to regard as something of a curse . . . a marvelously entertaining read.”

—London Evening Standard

 

“Robert Silverberg’s award-winning novel Dying Inside is one of the best-written sf novels in many years: affected with warm insight and told with the rare virtue of human sensibility. David Selig, the telepath, is no stock character from the rag-bag of sf stereotypes; his solitary disaster becomes for the reader more immediate and effecting than any number of exploding reactors.”

—Christopher Priest

Oxford Mail