Man in the Maze - Robert Silverberg - cover artist Michael Presley
TITLE: Man in the Maze
AUTHOR: Robert Silverberg 1935-
REVIEW BY CR: Notes from July 8, 1975 "Why would an alien race build a 100 sq. mile maze around their only "city", fill it with deadly hazards and illusions and leave no key to the reason for it or how it continues to maintain itself eons after the race [of aliens] has perished. We get no answer from RS [author Robert Silverberg], and I suppose none are necessary. In a way it's a cop out because Silverberg doesn't have to make up an explanation to a paradoxical or better yet hard to believe idea - the city [itself]. I dislike intensely stereotype characters in fiction. In science fiction they are easy to spot, and when carried to extremes reduce the narrative to comic book level. This book is stacked with them. This, along with some pseudo-science nonsense and the worst set of aliens seen in a long time weakens what otherwise could be a fine book. Plot: man isolated in maze is induced, by trickery, to leave to save mankind from the standard alien menace.
TYPE: novel trade paperback
PUBLISHER: AVON/ Equinox Edition
COVER PRICE: $1.95
ISBN: 0-380-00198-5
PAGES: 192
PUB DATE: Jan 1975
EDITION: Third Printing (Equinox Edition)
COPYRIGHT:
COVER ARTIST: Michael Presley
ISFDB:
RATING: 6
NOTATION:
SF Rediscovery Series #5
No published date. States: "First Avon Printing, February, 1969. / Third Printing (Equinox Edition)" Series evidence indicates a publication in January, 1975.
Front cover catalog #21915
Spine catalog #380-21915-195
Front cover: "IN CANADA/22194/$2.45"
Cover artist credited as "Sketch Pad Studio", artist's signature "MP" indicates Michael Presley. See copyright page of SF Rediscovery #17 (The Humanoids by Jack Williamson) for evidence of Presley's association with Sketch Pad. book sold on Amazon in 2008
INDEX: 0247 - Man in the Maze - 17 - RS - IFB
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
QUOTE….“The study of history was oddly congenial to Joseph. There was a kind of poetry in it for him. He had always loved those flamboyant tales of far-off strife, the carefully preserved legends of the fabled kings and kingdoms of Old Earth. But they were just tales to him, gaudy legends, ingenious dramatic fictions. He did not seriously think that men like Agamemnon and Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan had ever existed”. Robert Silverberg from The Longest Way Home
Man in the Maze - Robert Silverberg - cover artist Michael Presley
TITLE: Man in the Maze
AUTHOR: Robert Silverberg 1935-
REVIEW BY CR: Notes from July 8, 1975 "Why would an alien race build a 100 sq. mile maze around their only "city", fill it with deadly hazards and illusions and leave no key to the reason for it or how it continues to maintain itself eons after the race [of aliens] has perished. We get no answer from RS [author Robert Silverberg], and I suppose none are necessary. In a way it's a cop out because Silverberg doesn't have to make up an explanation to a paradoxical or better yet hard to believe idea - the city [itself]. I dislike intensely stereotype characters in fiction. In science fiction they are easy to spot, and when carried to extremes reduce the narrative to comic book level. This book is stacked with them. This, along with some pseudo-science nonsense and the worst set of aliens seen in a long time weakens what otherwise could be a fine book. Plot: man isolated in maze is induced, by trickery, to leave to save mankind from the standard alien menace.
TYPE: novel trade paperback
PUBLISHER: AVON/ Equinox Edition
COVER PRICE: $1.95
ISBN: 0-380-00198-5
PAGES: 192
PUB DATE: Jan 1975
EDITION: Third Printing (Equinox Edition)
COPYRIGHT:
COVER ARTIST: Michael Presley
ISFDB:
RATING: 6
NOTATION:
SF Rediscovery Series #5
No published date. States: "First Avon Printing, February, 1969. / Third Printing (Equinox Edition)" Series evidence indicates a publication in January, 1975.
Front cover catalog #21915
Spine catalog #380-21915-195
Front cover: "IN CANADA/22194/$2.45"
Cover artist credited as "Sketch Pad Studio", artist's signature "MP" indicates Michael Presley. See copyright page of SF Rediscovery #17 (The Humanoids by Jack Williamson) for evidence of Presley's association with Sketch Pad. book sold on Amazon in 2008
INDEX: 0247 - Man in the Maze - 17 - RS - IFB
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
QUOTE….“The study of history was oddly congenial to Joseph. There was a kind of poetry in it for him. He had always loved those flamboyant tales of far-off strife, the carefully preserved legends of the fabled kings and kingdoms of Old Earth. But they were just tales to him, gaudy legends, ingenious dramatic fictions. He did not seriously think that men like Agamemnon and Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan had ever existed”. Robert Silverberg from The Longest Way Home