- Taschenbuch: 384 Seiten
- Verlag: Tor Books (Januar 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312862873
- ISBN-13: 978-0312862879
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,9 x 13,8 x 2,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (7 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.252.083 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In a brilliant debut, newcomer O'Leary gives a fringe-media fascination, alien abduction, a thoughtful, sardonic second look. John Donnelly is a conventionally skeptical psychotherapist whose most intriguing patient, an otherwise rational woman named Laura, claims a common heritage to both humans and aliens and has the square-shaped nipples to prove it. While Donnelly vainly tries to uncover a hidden trauma in Laura's elaborate fantasies, her former physician is murdered, and it soon becomes obvious that the culprits are indeed aliens, as Laura insists. From then on, Donnelly's own notions of reality begin to unravel as he undergoes bizarre lucid dreams, encounters a strange alien investigator named Saul, and ultimately builds a time machine. O'Leary perfectly captures the mind-set of dogmatic psychotherapy, and thus of humanity's own rigid concepts of reality, in prose that easily matches that of the best in contemporary mainstream literature. Striking and insightful, this is one of the year's finest sf novels, deserving of widespread recognition beyond the genre. Carl Hays
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Psychologist John Donnell's life takes a turn for the bizarre when a young woman claiming to be an alien seeks his counsel and more. While presenting a fascinating analysis of his characters' longings and emotions, first novelist O'Leary homes in on "big" issues: the relationship of cause and effect, the phenomenon of time, the importance of dreams. Reminiscent of the speculative fiction of the late Philip K. Dick and full of offbeat humor and a rueful acceptance of humanity's shortcomings, this debut is a good choice for most sf collections.
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The writing is excellent, the content is good, this is a very readable book. What keeps me from giving it the fourth star is: so what? The philosophizing and time travel are both confusing.
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This book belongs to a type I've seen more and more recently--a book influenced by film and/or written with an eye to film adaptation.
John Donnelly, a psychotherapist, acquires a new client, Laura. She claims to be the offspring of an alien plus a human parent (the human was abducted by aliens). Her descriptions of her upbringing among the aliens are detailed and shocking. Donnelly thinks Laura is suffering from elaborate delusions brought on by a traumatic childhood. However, he is unable to shake her delusional system. Laura claims the aliens have given her one year to make a human believe her (or something dreadful will happen). She is also trying to seduce him.
The first half of the book consists largely of descriptions of Laura's sessions and Donnelly's feelings--disturbance because he is starting to believe Laura, guilt because he is sexually attracted to her, grief over his mother's death, guilt over his long enstrangement from her.
Then madcap action erupts. It involves government conspiracies, secret agents, murders, colorful characters, love affairs, time travel, alternative time streams, religion, Hollywood, and visits to another planet with fancy scenery. And lots and lots of easy insights and meaningful emotional breakthroughs for Donnelly, his brother Hogan, and several other characters.
I said at the beginning that this book seems to be influenced by film. What I mean is the nonstop action and continual working to entertain the reader, by means of either emotional insights or humor. It doesn't seem to matter which, as long as the reader is entertained without having to think deeply. Fine if you like this sort of thing, but to me it seems rather shallow.
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O'Leary is one of the best prose artists in the genre. His dry wit, insight, and lush use of words makes for more than just an escapist read.
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A puzzling work of SF
I looked forward to "Door Number Three" after reading the jacket cover. I like SF that plays on issues of time and alternate realities and the like. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
One word: WOW!!
If you have ANY interest in SF you HAVE to read this!! On the very first page you read
I FELL IN LOVE WITH AN ALIEN, DISCOVER THE SECRET TO FORGOTTON DREAMS, SAVED THE EARTH FROM... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Dezember 1998 von roboco@flash.net
Fantastic!
Being a science-fiction buff, I expected to enjoy this book no matter what. But I was really blown away by the richness of the language and the complexity of the plot. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. Januar 1998 veröffentlicht
Read this book. Twice!
If your tastes run to the absurd, if you like to laugh out loud and try to figure out what the heck is going on all at the same time, please try this book and tell your friends
Am 18. Dezember 1996 veröffentlicht
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