Dying Inside

Rating:
Summary: One of the Greats!
Review: This is definitely one of the great works of science fiction.
One thing that occurred to me when Selig talks about looking into the mind of Nixon was, what if he had proved his abilities to the world, then looked into the minds of all the politicians and told the world which were most likely to be the best leaders? (Even better if he recruited some more of the mind-readers he said were out there to give more credibility.) Surely this use of his/their powers would benefit humanity enormously? So come on all you mind-readers out there... :)

Rating:
Summary: literature at its peak
Review: Well, what can I say? After I finish reading this book, when I was in North Carolina, I kept staring at it for two minutes, pleasantly surprised. A marvelous book by any standard. I enjoyed how the author goes very deep in Selig's soul and, through him, in the inner beings of other characters. I was in delight to see a telepath depicted without the glamour so common in sci-fi products on television and cinema. I liked very much how a loser, in the American terminology, can be nonetheless highly interesting, speaking about his malaise. And I felt yet stronger to deny the affirmations that science fiction is bad in character-building. Dying Inside, along other masterpieces, proves this assertion to be completely false.
Read it! And accept shyness when seeing your own emotions revealed.