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Synopsis
John Donelly's life is changed forever the day Laura, a young therapy patient, tells him that she has been left for a year on Earth by the Holock, an alien race. If she can convince one person - and she has chosen him - that she is telling the truth, she can stay when they come back for her. And she exposes her breasts as evidence, revealing square nipples. His least profound response is to drop his cigarette into the crease in his chair. So begins the wildest SF novel since the passing of Philip K. Dick. Patrick O'Leary's Door Number Three is a constant wellspring of surprise and wonder, a novel about a young man of today and a woman from somewhere else who is out to love or kill him - or both. The whole, apparently real, world and everything in it can never be the same again.
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Door Number Three: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
Adult psychological science fiction with mature themes involving sexual content (exposed anatomy in clinical context), mental manipulation, and reality-questioning narrative. Contains strong surrealist elements and potentially disturbing psychological scenarios.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, moderate sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include mental manipulation, deception, and psychosis.
Who'll love this
Adult readers will appreciate the mind-bending Philip K. Dick-style reality questioning and alien contact premise.