The World Inside By Robert Silverberg

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The book is great. It was kinda late though, but the customer service was very nice and answered immediately. 5 stars. The World Inside One of the best books I've read for a while. The World Inside This guy writes wonderfully. This story is very interesting and detailed. There is a delightful, transcendent chapter that really transported me to a very deep place. Many of the ideas presented are things we are grappling with now so Silverberg was quite prophetic. This is one of my favorite books of his. I don't want to say any but it was gift to read this novel which was full of new ideas and existential truth told in a fast paced and satisfying way. The World Inside perfect condition! The World Inside I thought this really was a top notch book, I did not enjoy it as much personally as his other book Dying Inside, which is deservedly part of the Science Fiction Masterworks series but it still manages to ask a lot of great questions about a possible distant future while being a readable novel along the way.The book depicts a sort of distant future high rise reality in which people are contentedly adapted to living in highly hierarchical, confined conditions, in which privacy, monogamy, even modesty, are long forgotten/arcane concepts. It is an arrangement of stories, for instance the first featuring a visitor from off world to whom the conventions of the tower dwellers are curious, a later one featuring a social researcher/historian, which allow the author to pose questions and answer them in an imaginative way.So if you like good inner space fiction, the sort that asks questions like are conventions a product of psychological conditioning or selective breeding/intrinsic traits, or if taboos are dispensed with only to be replaced by fresh taboos (or simply forced into the unconscious), how flexible or adaptive human beings are (the old essence vs existence questions) then this book is for you. There's even some great dialogue between the researcher and a colleague about whether their work will be truly scientific if rather than testing hypothesis it is merely gathering evidence to support an a priori assumption (confirmation bias).One of my favourite passages, which is short again, maybe two or three sentences, is about the use of a search engine, which has access to all the information and data on record but will only produce a good answer if you can ask a good question. This book was written in 1970 and I could not think of a better way of describing how internet based search engines work. So it is not just futurism but good futurism.Like Philip K Dick's writing Silverberg is able to throw in these great, complex or at least sophisticated points without any kind of divergence from the narrative or pacing issues in the writing. I like reading books like this which manage to combine fiction that allows you learn, proves to be thought provoking, without becoming dull or tedious in the reading. Highly recommend this one. The World Inside