Canção dos Neurônios (Urânia #1)

Thorns", 1967. Também traduzido como "Espinhos" em 1987 na Série Ficção Científica de Bolso da Publicações Europa-América de Portugal. Livro indicado aos prêmios Hugo e Nebula.
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In a world where humans have colonized the solar system, a massive audience follows real-life stories presented by brutal media mogul Duncan Chalk.

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 traveler 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 one hundred 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. . .
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"Where Silverberg goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow!''
--- Isaac Asimov, praise for the author.

[About the Author]: Robert Silverberg was born in 1935. His first published story appeared in 1954 when he was a sophomore at Columbia University. Since then, he has won the prestigious Nebula Award an astonishing five times and the Hugo on four occasions; he has been nominated for both awards more times than any other writer. In 1999 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and in 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him their Grand Master Award for career achievement. He remains one of the most imaginative and versatile writers in science fiction.

Aventura / Distopia / Drama / Ficção científica / Literatura Estrangeira / Romance / Suspense e Mistério