The Man Who Never Forgot
"The Man Who Never Forgot" is a science fiction short story by Robert Silverberg. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in February 1958.
Synopsis
[edit]Tom Niles has perfect memory of everything he has seen or heard since birth — which makes it nearly impossible for him to sustain any sort of relationship with anyone.
Reception
[edit]Damien Broderick has called it "pretty good early Silverberg", and considers that it is "shaped a lot like" Silverberg's 1972 novel Dying Inside[1] — a similarity which has also been noted by Paul Kincaid.[2]
Paul di Filippo observed that it "most vividly" depicts the disadvantages of "camera-perfect memory".[3] Harlan Ellison declared that the story "spoke to the alienation with which we all suffer".[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Strange Highways: Reading Science Fantasy, 1950-1967, by Damien Broderick and John Boston; published January 15, 2013, by Wildside Press
- ^ The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume One: To Be Continued, reviewed by Paul Kincaid, at the SF Site; published 2006; retrieved August 9, 2019
- ^ Strange Divisions and Alien Territories: The Sub-Genres of Science Fiction, edited by Keith Brooke; published 2012 by Macmillan Publishers
- ^ Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed, by Harlan Ellison; published 2014 by Open Road Media
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