The Second Trip

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Description for THE SECOND TRIP by Robert Silverberg: Science fiction novel set in the year 2011 (about 40 year when book was written). Because capital punishment has been deemed t oo harsh, violent criminals are subjected to coercive therapy that effectively erases their memories and replaces them with artificially constructed memories to form a new personality deemed useful to society. Protagonist Paul Macy, a rehabilitated criminal, finds his original personality, a serial rapist named Nat Hamlin, reasserting itself in defiance of the mental conditioning. Show more