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Thorns (Gollancz S.F.)

Thorns (Gollancz S.F.)

by RobertSilverberg (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

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Synopsis

Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people's pain. He feeds off it, and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on Minner Burris, a space traveller whose body was taken apart by alien surgeons and then put back together again - differently. Burris' pain is constant. And so is that of Lona Kelvin, used by scientists to supply eggs for 100 children and then ruthlessly discarded. Only an emotional vampire like Chalk can see the huge audience eager to watch a relationship develop between these two damaged people. And only Chalk can make it happen.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 04 Dec 2000
ISBN 10: 057507146X
ISBN 13: 9780575071469
Book Overview: * 'Ambitious and disturbing' Analog * With Thorns Robert Silverberg found his voice and began one of the most remarkable and sustained bursts of creativity in sf history * 'Entertaining and enjoyable...refreshingly unpretentious' Visions of Tomorrow * 'Very well constructed and executed...careful prose, discerning sympathy and tight control' M. John Harrison

Author Bio
Robert Silverberg was born in 1935 and began to write while studying for his BA at Columbia University. He is one of the most prolific of all sf writers and among his many fine novels are Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth, The Stochastic Man and Shadrach in the Furnace.