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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. Adventure Fantasy Fiction First Contact Science Fiction Space Opera Outcast
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A brilliant book which presses all of the right buttons for this reader: good writing, descriptions which give just enough to form pictures in the mind but leave enough to the imagination, a touch of surprise, of horror, of future fears as well as the terror of the present, and three contrasting but fascinating protagonists. Old mid twentieth century ideas SF.
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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I enjoyed this old, perhaps a bit dated sci-fi classic. The reading was excellent. There was a small confusing error in chapter 6 (at 5:36:23) the mathematical proof was I assume written in Roman numericals, so should have been 1+2=3 and not as read 1+11=111

An old classic

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Robert Silverberg + Stefan Rudnicki = Pure Perfection!!
Both story and narration kept me entertained every single minute.

Brilliant!!!

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Other reviewers are right about women in this book -- their presence in the story is for aesthetic and sexual reasons only. That is rare nowadays. Yet I can't judge the book for it. In a way, it's an interesting contrast to our current times and to how characters are written nowadays (which is often just as bad but in other ways).
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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To love society even when it outright ostracises you and cast you out, interesting idea.
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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