The Dead Man's Eyes: A Short Story

by Robert Silverberg

Description

Guilt is in the eye of the beholder in this futuristic crime story from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Lord Valentine's Castle. A lot of women were wearing Marianne's face that season, which made it hard for Loren Frazier to forget that he killed his world-famous wife's lover. The world wouldn't forget it either; the image of his murderous impulse was caught forever in his victim's brain--an eyeflash picture readily recovered by law enforcement. But a man of show more Frazier's money and power has options: aliases, overseas accounts, the ability to change his appearance. Heartbreak and regret are his constant companions through the continents and the years--until he can truly see what he has become . . . Praise for Robert Silverberg and his short stories "When Silverberg is at the top of his form, no one is better." --George R. R. Martin, #1 New York Times-bestselling author "Silverberg's creative story premises are matched by a remarkable ability to make his characters sympathetic, whether human or not." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The short stories in Robert Silverberg's First-Person Singularities are inventive, sublime, and endlessly entertaining." -- Foreword Reviews "Decades after being originally published, most of these stories are still just as entertaining and powerful as they were when first released. A singularly unique collection." -- Kirkus Reviews show less