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Summary: A masterpiece, touched me deeply
Review: Being a science-fiction reader for about 25 years there are very few books that touched me the way 'Son of Man' did. Silverberg has always been one of my favourites for his unique ability to address human issues. Together with 'Nightwings' and 'Downward to the Earth', 'Son of Man' is one of his masterpieces. Read this one if your mind is open for alternative perspectives on almost every aspect of being human. There is only one other comparable book I know of - also one of my all time favourites: it's 'A Voyage to Arcturus' from David Lindsay
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Summary: Retarded
Review: I normally don't give such a poor rating on anything, but there always has to be a first time. I think the author of this book needs some serious mental therapy. He promotes man as being future gods, there is too much explicit sex and he goes off on wild tangents. I think he and Carlos Castenega would hit it off real well, they could swap notes. I would have to sum this book up with a simple sentence: "Don't waste your money, like I did."
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Summary: Retarded
Review: I normally don't give such a poor rating on anything, but there always has to be a first time. I think the author of this book needs some serious mental therapy. He promotes man as being future gods, there is too much explicit sex and he goes off on wild tangents. I think he and Carlos Castenega would hit it off real well, they could swap notes. I would have to sum this book up with a simple sentence: "Don't waste your money, like I did."
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Summary: vibrant flesh poetry dream
Review: i read it in entranced sweaty hours fast under the wyoming sun and finished under stars exalted i was a man
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Summary: A very good read indeed!
Review: One of the books that opened my perceptions to wonder when I first read it some 20 years ago. Silverberg at his most psychedically powerful stride. Along with "Nightwings" this is a must read for any fan of the Sci-Fi genre.A terrible pitty that it is not available for my Macintosh or Palm.
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Summary: A very good read indeed!
Review: One of the books that opened my perceptions to wonder when I first read it some 20 years ago. Silverberg at his most psychedically powerful stride. Along with "Nightwings" this is a must read for any fan of the Sci-Fi genre. A terrible pitty that it is not available for my Macintosh or Palm.
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Summary: A very good read indeed!
Review: One of the books that opened my perceptions to wonder when I first read it some 20 years ago. Silverberg at his most psychedically powerful stride. Along with "Nightwings" this is a must read for any fan of the Sci-Fi genre. A terrible pitty that it is not available for my Macintosh or Palm.
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Summary: What a waste of time and money
Review: Science fiction? Hardly...more like sexual fiction. Would have been fine if I was looking in the adult fantasy section. Didn't find a single thing in this book that grabbed me - except boredom. Forget about continuity or connected segments. Save your money (. . .)
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Summary: Happy I found it again!
Review: Ten years ago I bought it second hand, read it (my first sci-fi book!), and fell in love with it. A few years later, I gave it to my brother, who may still have it, I don't know. I've been looking for another copy for the past 5 or 6 years, and today I just found it! Thank you, thank you, whoever it belonged to (and a first edition)! Without doubt a great book on its own, not just from the sci-fi point of view, worthy of not being obliterated by time.
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Summary: Psychology and Philosophy meets Science Fiction
Review: This is hands down my favorite book. Silverberg takes a man (Clay) from the present and places him in the far, far distant future. While there he meets not only humans as they look at that time, but all forms humans have taken over the millenia (some of them not so pretty). From a psychological standpoint the different human forms and the way they think is extraordinary. Silverberg takes taday's personalities and magnifies them to create the future human forms. From a philosophical perspective the book follows Clay's thoughts as he tries to come to terms with what humanity was, what it has become and his place in it all.
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