as Flowers for Algernon) almost completely neglected in sci-fi--are the key themes at work here. They are handled so deftly and vividly that one inevitably wonders about the connections between David Selig the character and Robert Silverberg the author. Silverberg has called it "as mundane in texture as any novel I've ever written." Literary and other allusions Dying Inside makes frequent references to various artists, writers and other academics, including: Poets: Dante Alighieri, Charles Baudelaire, Robert Browning, Thomas Carew, Richard Crashaw, John Donne, T. S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Homer, Rudyard Kipling, Comte de Lautréamont, Stéphane Mallarmé, Pindar, Ezra Pound, Arthur Rimbaud, Lord Tennyson, Thomas Traherne, Paul Verlaine, W. B. Yeats Painters: Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, M. C. Escher, El Greco, Pablo Picasso, Giovanni Battista Piranesi Composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alban Berg, Gustav Mahler, Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner Playwrights: Aeschylus, Samuel Beckett, William Cartwright, Euripides, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Sophocles Novelists: Isaac Asimov, Honoré de Balzac, John Barth, Saul Bellow, J. D. Beresford, Ray Bradbury, William S. Burroughs, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Arthur C. Clarke, Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Jean Genet, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Hardy, Robert A. Heinlein, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Harper Lee, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, André Malraux, Thomas Mann, George Orwell, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Rafael Sabatini, Walter Scott, Olaf Stapledon, Theodore Sturgeon, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mark Twain, John Updike, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Émile Zola Philosophers: Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Simone de Beauvoir, Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Koestler, Laozi, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Karl Marx, Michel de Montaigne, Bertrand Russell, Henry David Thoreau, Arnold Toynbee Scientists and pseudo-scientists: Alfred Adler, William Bates, Edgar Cayce, Sigmund Freud, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Carl Jung, Timothy Leary, Wilhelm Reich, Joseph Banks Rhine, Immanuel Velikovsky, Norbert Wiener, Karl Zener References External links Dying Inside at Worlds Without End 1972 American novels 1972 science fiction novels American science fiction novels Novels about telepathy Novels by Robert Silverberg Novels set in New York City