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The Man in the Maze

The Man in the Maze

The Man in the Maze is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, originally serialized in the magazine, Worlds of If April in May 1968, and published in bookstores the following year. It tells the tale of a man rendered incapable of interacting normally with other human beings by his uncontrollable psychic abilities. The novel is inspired by Sophocles' play Philoctetes, with the roles of Odysseus, Neoptolemus and Philoctetes played by Boardman, Rawlins, and Muller, respectively.


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“The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant.”

Robert Silverberg book The Man in the Maze

Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 12, section 4 (p. 179)

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“You can make no meaningful evaluations of the universe without the confidence that you are seeing it clearly.”

Robert Silverberg book The Man in the Maze

Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 6, section 8 (p. 89)

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