The Man Inside is a novel of startling originality. It could be read as a parody of the Horatio Alger story–the orphan boy whose struggles lead him down and down until success comes at the bottom. Or a Kafkaesque pursuit of Purpose. the ceaseless quest for the meaning of life–always baffled by the cruel traps of mankind. Or a journey toward wisdom–in the manner of Hermann Hesse–that culminates oddly: satori achieved inside a robot. But such suggestions can give only a faint indication of the strange and haunting powers of The Man Inside. The rest the reader must discover for himself.

W. Watts Biggers, 1968

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