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Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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In the final month of a turbulent decade, Robert Silverberg came up with the title for his novel Dying Inside. “I found myself wondering,” he recalls, “whether the phrase ‘dying inside,’ taken literally, might generate some useful fictional idea.” This odd method was a proven opening gambit for our author. In the past, the prolific Silverberg—for a stre…

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