Deathhunter
by Ian Watson
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The regions that have survived the holocaust in Watson's new novel have largely transformed themselves from prewar violence into a peaceful utopia, without either conflict or art. In place of belief in a religious afterlife, the old and ailing accept euthanasia at Houses of Death where priestlike guides counsel them. One of these guides is Jim Todhunter, who pursues research into the nature of death despite official censure. When he is assigned to guide that rarity in the new world - a show more murderer - he finds a natural ally in the obsessive Nathan Weinberger, himself an ex-guide. As usual with Watson, the initial impression of a green and pleasant land is revealed to be only one facet of a more complex and disturbing reality. show lessTags
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British science fiction author Ian Watson was born in 1943. He received a first class Honors degree in English Literature in 1963 and a research degree in English and French 19th Century literature in 1965 from Balliol College, Oxford. After lecturing in literature and Futures Studies, he became a full-time author in 1976. His first novel, The show more Embedding, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the French Prix Apollo. His novel The Jonah Kit won the British Science Fiction Association Award and the Orbit Award. He worked with Stanley Kubrick on story development for the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence from 1990 to 1991. His poem True Love won the 2002 Rhysling Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1981
- Dedication
- For Michael Bishop,
fellow bridger of Heaven and the Atlantic - First words
- As the single-car monorail train from Gracchus sped out of the last black tunnel into the honeyed sunlight of the valley, Jim Todhunter caught his first sight of Egremont, and his heart rejoiced.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In the holos, tiny marionette figures scrabled and panicked in the aftermath of the poet's murder.
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