Quicksand
โ Scribed by Brunner, John;Lehr, Paul
- Book ID
- 100552979
- Publisher
- Daw Books
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 193 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0722120060
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โฆ Synopsis
Epub
A beautiful girl is discovered naked near a
mental hospital, she speaks a language no one understands and she quickly
becomes an obsession to one of the psychiatrists there.
The plot
seems to be about P.F. the psychiatrist having to question everything he knows
to be real as his undeniably intelligent patient slowly reveals herself to be
neither insane nor from this time. By today's standards he is most definitely a
loony himself and I'm inclined to read this as a descent into madness as the
patient is revealed to be ultimately sane and her therapist a man with serious
reality problems that culminate in crisis. Or it was written in 1969 and P.F. is
supposed to be a normal man driven to the brink by an insane contradiction
โฆ Subjects
Time travel -- Fiction
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