http://upsala.fandom.se/2009/04/23/robert-silverberg-och-dying-inside/ Sällskap för vetenskaplig vitterhet Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:36:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://upsala.fandom.se/2009/04/23/robert-silverberg-och-dying-inside/comment-page-1/#comment-633 George Berger Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:26:54 +0000 http://upsala.fandom.se/?p=576#comment-633 Hej, Pardon my use of Imperiumspeak, but I'm a refugee from NYC via Nederland. Dying Inside is a wonderful book, and everyone I know who has read it agrees with me. I treasure my old copy but am glad to see that it has been republished. It is a very emotionally affecting book. Moreover, it is true to its time and place. I was a graduate student at Columbia University about three years after that story took place. Silverberg got it absolutely right. I was and am impressed by this fine book. Last year a fellow member of the BSFA was in touch with Mr. Silverberg and decided to ask him some questions. With Silverberg's permission I butted in and posed one. I asked him if he was in NYC at that time, and if he was influenced by the beginnings of the counterculture, since that's what he describes in part. He told me that he lived in California and had not been near the Columbia campus in decades, certainly not in the book's time-frame. I was amazed, since the Columbia area was very special in those days, not at all characteristic of NYC. But Roberty S. WAS a student there, more than ten years before Dying Inside's events. He knew the geography of course (I still do) but got the societal facts right as well. I liked that and told him so. He is one of my few SF heroes. Hej, Pardon my use of Imperiumspeak, but I’m a refugee from NYC via Nederland. Dying Inside is a wonderful book, and everyone I know who has read it agrees with me. I treasure my old copy but am glad to see that it has been republished.
It is a very emotionally affecting book. Moreover, it is true to its time and place. I was a graduate student at Columbia University about three years after that story took place. Silverberg got it absolutely right. I was and am impressed by this fine book.
Last year a fellow member of the BSFA was in touch with Mr. Silverberg and decided to ask him some questions. With Silverberg’s permission I butted in and posed one. I asked him if he was in NYC at that time, and if he was influenced by the beginnings of the counterculture, since that’s what he describes in part. He told me that he lived in California and had not been near the Columbia campus in decades, certainly not in the book’s time-frame. I was amazed, since the Columbia area was very special in those days, not at all characteristic of NYC. But Roberty S. WAS a student there, more than ten years before Dying Inside’s events. He knew the geography of course (I still do) but got the societal facts right as well. I liked that and told him so. He is one of my few SF heroes.

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