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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Gardners Books
Publication date
August 21, 2008
Pages
232
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780715637623
ISBN-10
0715637622
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$12.75
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From one of science fictionâs greatest living writers comes an unforgettable near-future novel in the hortatory tradition of Bradburyâs Fahrenheit 451, Orwellâs 1984, and Dickâs A Scanner Darkly. Both a searing indictment of a fear-drenched political climate and a visionary allegory that shines a piercing light on timeless human verities, HARM is a powerfully compact masterwork that is sure to be one of the most passionately discussed books of the year.
The time is today or tomorrowâor perhaps the day after tomorrow. Paul Fadhil Abbas Ali, a young British citizen of Muslim descent, has written a satirical novel in which two characters joke about the assassination of the prime minister. Arrested by agents of HARMâthe Hostile Activities Research MinistryâPaul is thrown into a nameless Abu Ghraib-like prison, possibly located in Syria, where he is held incommunicado and brutally interrogated by jailers to whom his Muslim heritage is itself a crime meriting the harshest punishment. Under this sadistic regime, Paulâs personality begins to show signs of radical fragmentation. . . .
On the remote planet of Stygia, a man named Fremant, haunted by memories of torture that seem drawn from Paulâs mind, is one of a small group of colonists struggling for survival on a harsh but weirdly beautiful world whose dominant life-forms are insects. The sole humanoid race on the planet has been hunted to extinction by the human settlers, whose long journey to Stygia has left them unable to understand their own history and technology.
Thrown back to a more primitive state, they seem destined to repeat all the sins of the world they fled to Stygia to escape.
Is Paul dreaming Fremant as a way of escaping the horrors of his imprisonment? Or is there a strongerâand far strangerâconnection between the two men, whose very different circumstances begin to take on uncanny parallels?
As aspects of their identities blur and, finally, merge, astonishing answers take shapeâand profound new questions arise.
The time is today or tomorrowâor perhaps the day after tomorrow. Paul Fadhil Abbas Ali, a young British citizen of Muslim descent, has written a satirical novel in which two characters joke about the assassination of the prime minister. Arrested by agents of HARMâthe Hostile Activities Research MinistryâPaul is thrown into a nameless Abu Ghraib-like prison, possibly located in Syria, where he is held incommunicado and brutally interrogated by jailers to whom his Muslim heritage is itself a crime meriting the harshest punishment. Under this sadistic regime, Paulâs personality begins to show signs of radical fragmentation. . . .
On the remote planet of Stygia, a man named Fremant, haunted by memories of torture that seem drawn from Paulâs mind, is one of a small group of colonists struggling for survival on a harsh but weirdly beautiful world whose dominant life-forms are insects. The sole humanoid race on the planet has been hunted to extinction by the human settlers, whose long journey to Stygia has left them unable to understand their own history and technology.
Thrown back to a more primitive state, they seem destined to repeat all the sins of the world they fled to Stygia to escape.
Is Paul dreaming Fremant as a way of escaping the horrors of his imprisonment? Or is there a strongerâand far strangerâconnection between the two men, whose very different circumstances begin to take on uncanny parallels?
As aspects of their identities blur and, finally, merge, astonishing answers take shapeâand profound new questions arise.
Editions
Editions for the work Harm
Hardcover
from Del Rey (May 29, 2007)
9780345496713 | details & prices | 225 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $21.95
About: Paul Ali, a young Muslim writer, finds himself imprisoned because of his comic novel, in which two characters joke about the murder of a British prime minister, and his only escape is to an alien planet that he invents within his own mind.
About: Paul Ali, a young Muslim writer, finds himself imprisoned because of his comic novel, in which two characters joke about the murder of a British prime minister, and his only escape is to an alien planet that he invents within his own mind.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from Gardners Books (August 21, 2008)
9780715637623 | details & prices | 232 pages | List price $12.75
This edition also contains HARM
About: From one of science fictionâs greatest living writers comes an unforgettable near-future novel in the hortatory tradition of Bradburyâs Fahrenheit 451, Orwellâs 1984, and Dickâs A Scanner Darkly.
This edition also contains HARM
About: From one of science fictionâs greatest living writers comes an unforgettable near-future novel in the hortatory tradition of Bradburyâs Fahrenheit 451, Orwellâs 1984, and Dickâs A Scanner Darkly.
Editions for the work HARM
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
With Brian Wilson Aldiss |
from Gardners Books (August 21, 2008)
9780715637623 | details & prices | 232 pages | List price $12.75
This edition also contains Harm
About: From one of science fictionâs greatest living writers comes an unforgettable near-future novel in the hortatory tradition of Bradburyâs Fahrenheit 451, Orwellâs 1984, and Dickâs A Scanner Darkly.
This edition also contains Harm
About: From one of science fictionâs greatest living writers comes an unforgettable near-future novel in the hortatory tradition of Bradburyâs Fahrenheit 451, Orwellâs 1984, and Dickâs A Scanner Darkly.
Reprint edition from Del Rey (July 29, 2008)
9780345496720 | details & prices | 240 pages | List price $14.00
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