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Miracle Visitors

Ian Watson (1978)

SubgenreSoft SF / Social SF
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
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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.