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Miracle Visitors
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Ian Watson
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Victor Gollancz
Publication date
October 1, 2003
Pages
240
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780575075030
ISBN-10
0575075031
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.25 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.65 lbs.
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Out of Print
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$14.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
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"One of the most intellectually exciting of all Ian Watson's books."--The Times
"An science fiction writer of powerful intellect-the natural successor to H. G. Wells."--The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
"A marvelous and moving piece of speculation on the nature of UFOs. A supremely skillful narrative...A tremendous sense of conviction."--Spectator
An unusually brilliant and mind-stretching metaphysical quest from one of the most exciting talents in science fiction.
John Deacon uses hypnosis to help his patients reach altered states of consciousness. One of his subjects, Michael Peacocke, is unusually susceptible and in their first session together, Michael recalls a "close encounter"--in both senses of the term--with an alien. Deacon, skeptical of the story, dismisses it as an adolescent sexual fantasy. But then strange things begin to happen and Deacon is forced to reconsider. Could UFOs be symbols projected from the collective unconscious? Are they messages from the biomatrix? Does the mind have the ability to project objects and people that are physically real...yet somehow illusory?
A wonderfully fascinating, mind-bending voyage.
Ian Watson is author of Martian Inca, The Embedding, and The Jonah Kit.
"An science fiction writer of powerful intellect-the natural successor to H. G. Wells."--The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
"A marvelous and moving piece of speculation on the nature of UFOs. A supremely skillful narrative...A tremendous sense of conviction."--Spectator
An unusually brilliant and mind-stretching metaphysical quest from one of the most exciting talents in science fiction.
John Deacon uses hypnosis to help his patients reach altered states of consciousness. One of his subjects, Michael Peacocke, is unusually susceptible and in their first session together, Michael recalls a "close encounter"--in both senses of the term--with an alien. Deacon, skeptical of the story, dismisses it as an adolescent sexual fantasy. But then strange things begin to happen and Deacon is forced to reconsider. Could UFOs be symbols projected from the collective unconscious? Are they messages from the biomatrix? Does the mind have the ability to project objects and people that are physically real...yet somehow illusory?
A wonderfully fascinating, mind-bending voyage.
Ian Watson is author of Martian Inca, The Embedding, and The Jonah Kit.
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from Victor Gollancz (October 1, 2003)
9780575075030 | details & prices | 240 pages | 5.25 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $14.95
About: "One of the most intellectually exciting of all Ian Watson's books.
About: "One of the most intellectually exciting of all Ian Watson's books.
Reprint edition from Carroll & Graf Pub (April 1, 1990); titled "The Miracle Visitors"
9780881846089 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $3.95
About: A psychology experiment and his sighting of a UFO awakens in Michael Peacocke suppressed memories of his experiences aboard a starship from Pleiades and his sexual encounter with a spacewoman
About: A psychology experiment and his sighting of a UFO awakens in Michael Peacocke suppressed memories of his experiences aboard a starship from Pleiades and his sexual encounter with a spacewoman
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