The myth of Philoctetes, immortalized in Sophocles’ tragedy, is revived in an in-triguing science fiction noir by Robert Silverberg, where every variation and every change harmonizes perfectly with the themes of the Greek myth. A web of references and rewritings sees Silverberg’s work also dialogue, through Sophocles, with Heiner Müller’s painful tragic theater

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The myth of Philoctetes, immortalized in Sophocles’ tragedy, is revived in an in-triguing science fiction noir by Robert Silverberg, where every variation and every change harmonizes perfectly with the themes of the Greek myth. A web of references and rewritings sees Silverberg’s work also dialogue, through Sophocles, with Heiner Müller’s painful tragic theater
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