Thorns
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.
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780575071469
- Genre
- Topics
- Exploitation and media manipulationTrauma and sufferingAlienation and identity
Awards
- Hugo Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1968)
- Nebula Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1967)
Other awarded books from Robert Silverberg
- A Time of Changes (2009)1 win · 11 score
- Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)1 win · 8 score
- Dying Inside (2009)0 wins · 6 score
- Shadrach in the Furnace (1978)0 wins · 6 score
- The Book of Skulls (2011)0 wins · 6 score
- The Stochastic Man (2011)0 wins · 6 score
- Tower of Glass (1970)0 wins · 6 score
- Up the Line (2011)0 wins · 6 score
- The Masks of Time (1968)0 wins · 3 score
- At Winter's End (1989)0 wins · 2 score
- Gilgamesh the King (2011)0 wins · 2 score
- Star of Gypsies (2011)0 wins · 2 score
- The Alien Years (1998)0 wins · 2 score
- The Queen of Springtime (2005)0 wins · 2 score
- Tom O'Bedlam (1985)0 wins · 2 score
- Valentine Pontifex (2012)0 wins · 2 score
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