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To Live Again
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bookshelves: linguistics-and-philosophy, science-fiction, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts
Mar 08, 2023
bookshelves: linguistics-and-philosophy, science-fiction, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts
I read this novel in the early 70s when I was a teen. Comparing the other reviews with my fragmentary recollections, I'm astonished to find that I only seem to remember the philosophical part and have completely forgotten the sex and nudity. Usually it's the other way round.
I'm still not sure I understand why. Perhaps I'm unusually interested in the idea of trying to acquire other people's mental powers and inadvertently being taken over by their personalities as a result? Or, more likely, the sex and nudity were exactly as they are in all the other Robert Silverberg novels from that period and my memory has just deleted a few unnecessary duplicates.
I'm still not sure I understand why. Perhaps I'm unusually interested in the idea of trying to acquire other people's mental powers and inadvertently being taken over by their personalities as a result? Or, more likely, the sex and nudity were exactly as they are in all the other Robert Silverberg novels from that period and my memory has just deleted a few unnecessary duplicates.
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March 8, 2023
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Mar 09, 2023 03:02AM
70s sci-fi was big on gratuitous sex and nudity. 80s sci-fi tends to lean heavy on rape as a plot device. I prefer the former.
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Yet another PhD thesis that's crying out to be written!
