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''The Second Trip'' is a 1972 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg. Prior to its publication by Doubleday, it was published in serialized form in ''Amazing Stories'' from July to September 1971. == Plot introduction == The novel is set in the year 2011; about forty years from the time it was written. Because capital punishment has been deemed too harsh, violent criminals are subjected to coercive therapy that effectively erases their personalities, which are replaced with artificially constructed memories to form a character deemed useful to society. The protagonist is Paul Macy, a rehabilitated criminal who finds his original personality, a serial rapist named Nat Hamlin, reasserting itself in defiance of the conditioning. The novel includes several graphic scenes of copulation and sexual assault, and long stretches of the narrative consist of interior dialogues between Macy and Hamlin loaded with blunt and obscene language. These qualities, which placed ''The Second Trip'' squarely within the New Wave subgenre, were quite controversial when the novel was serialized in ''Amazing Science Fiction'', and then-editor Ted White carried on lengthy debates with offended readers in the "Or So You Say" letters section.〔C. N. Manlove, ''Science Fiction: Ten Explorations'' (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1986) 8, Questia, Web, 15 July 2010. ISBN 0-87338-326-5〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Second Trip」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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