
The Man in the Maze
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Narrated by:
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Stefan Rudnicki
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Once a hero, now a pariah, Richard Muller is humanity's last hope.
Richard Muller was an honorable diplomat who braved unimaginable dangers to make contact with the first-known race of intelligent aliens. But those aliens left a mark on him: a psychic wound that emanates a telepathic miasma that his fellow humans can neither cure nor endure. Muller is exiled to the remote planet of Lemnos, where he is left, deeply embittered, at the heart of a deadly maze - until a new alien race appears, seemingly intent on exterminating humanity. Only Muller can communicate with them, due to the very condition that has made him an outcast. But will Muller stick his neck out for the people who so callously rejected him?
©1969 Robert Silverberg (P)2016 Skyboat Media, Inc., and Blackstone Audio, Inc.Is is it worth to love that which abhors your existence.
Quite the question?
The question it ask you, will you love society even when it reject you
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An enjoyable Sci-fi story.
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All performed by an appropriate narrator, Stefan Rudnicki.
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Highly recommended, and available to download for free from the Audible+ programme
"The Labyrinth of Lemnos."
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The structural bits of the story, the world, the aliens, the technology, were all great and moved along at a good pace but I strongly disliked all of the characters for different reasons. There is no hero in this book. Plus the author was not as deep and meaningful as he clearly thought he was. That's the downside of an audiobook, you can't skim past all the self indulgent twaddle.
I know it was of its time, but still ...
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Anyway, it's a gripping book with a bizarre and ingenious plot device at its core: on a distant planet there's a deadly and impenetrable maze, a solitary human lives inside, and mankind needs to reach him. But he has a terrible affliction which makes him psychologically unbearable (literally unbearable) to those who approach him...
Superb despite...
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Deserving of more exposure
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My understaning is that everyone lives for so long in this fictional world that monogamy and shame are things of the past. There seems to exist shame of aging, though. 'If you can choose to look young, why wouldn't you?' said a character, feeling offended by his comrade's older body. People seem to live for fun -- or how a male writer imagined fun would look like -- bathing naked in front of dudes, sharing a girl between friends etc. Frankly, our current reality is quite close to this fictional world in the way how people buy and sell youth.
I'm simply not interested in women, so it was a boring experience for me to listen to these fantasies. Now, if the protagonist was swimming naked with his nipples perking above the water too -- then it would be something. :)) Otherwise, he is quite boring for a protagonist.
Not for me
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Was happy to find it for free on Audible. It was a good, well-written story. I enjoyed it, but the barrator’s voice is so deep and so slow I had to listen on 1.2x speed to make it interesting.
Well worth listening to.
Good story, I enjoyed it
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a intelligent tail of space and alien wooo
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An old classic
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