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
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
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
- ^ 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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