The Second Trip

The Second Trip by Robert Silverberg




Not one of Silverberg's great novels, The Second Trip is further evidence for him as a master-craftsman. A constructed personality inhabits a body once owned by a violent criminal, but when the the criminal's personality resurfaces, both men must fight for control of the same body. Silverberg shows off his writing-chops, fine as they were in this period of his career. But The Second Trip lacks the themes - alienation, guilt, redemption, transcendence - that give Silverberg's best work its heart. A fine technical exercise, enjoyable at the 200 or so pages (the length of so many of the 1960s and 1970s SF novels).



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