Sign in with Facebook
Loading...
Traitor to the Living
Gordon Carfax's troubles during a lecture when he suggested that Raymond Western's MEDIUM device wasn't contacting the spirits of the dead, as claimed, but that spirits were intelligences occupying the same space as ours but "at right angles" to it who're posing as human dead for sinister purposes. His efforts to answer questions from an unexpectedly huge audience ended in...more
Paperback, 220 pages
Published
March 12th 1978
by Ballantine Books (NY)
(first published 1973)
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
203)
oh, sci-fi nerds, i am trying to live amongst you.
lord knows i do not want to offend the great unwashed masses of science fiction fans with their squeezing of themselves into bookstore aisles too narrow for their girth to talk loudly and nasally about every single plot point in every single star trek book and their hushing up every time a girl walks by. i am not looking to offend. with their nose-picking and cavalier approach to hygiene and noise pollution. (oh, the guffaws...)i don't mean to ma...more
51 likes · like · see review
view all 43 comments
Nov 04, 2011
Travis
rated it
2 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
the-farmerverse,
sf-fantasy
It pains me to give a Farmer book only two stars, but he really dropped the ball on this one.
It's a very noir feeling story dealing with a machine that can talk to the dead and the various people scrambling to control and explain it.
Unfortunately, the noir conspiracy stuff takes over and drags on, so all the interesting ideas about being able to talk to the dead, are these really 'ghosts/souls etc' or something more sinister and sci-fi, and the impact this would have on the world all seems to ha...more
It's a very noir feeling story dealing with a machine that can talk to the dead and the various people scrambling to control and explain it.
Unfortunately, the noir conspiracy stuff takes over and drags on, so all the interesting ideas about being able to talk to the dead, are these really 'ghosts/souls etc' or something more sinister and sci-fi, and the impact this would have on the world all seems to ha...more
This is actually the third book feature Harold Childe,"Image of the Beast" and "Blown" being the first two, but isn't done with the same focus on erotica. It's a pretty interesting read and if you read the first two, the story makes a lot of sense. Farmer's writing is always filled with subtle nuances that are easily overlooked. Case in point, his characterization. So often, writer's break rules when developing characters by forcing the character to do something they normally wouldn't. Farmer le...more
Not the best Farmer I've read. A number of intriguing ideas come up but never get satisfactorily explored. Setting it in near-future America means the action is mostly generated from private-eye procedural style devices, with a few large-cast action-battle scenes thrown in but not fleshed out. A few supporting characters come out of nowhere and you wish they hadn't, particularly Hiekka the man-hunting "Valkyrie" CIA agent. The two leads are depressingly gender-regressive even by Farmer standards...more
Orphans of the Sky
Mar 05, 2011
Erik Graff
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Farmer fans
Recommended to Erik by:
no one
Shelves:
sf
There are many outrageous claims being made nowadays of contact with the dead by means of audio/video recording equipment, claims which have led to the production of a few mediocre movies about the subject. This novel by Farmer works from the premise that such contact may be possible.
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, but spent much of his life in Peoria, Illinois.
Farmer is best known for his Riverworld series and the earlier World of Tiers series. He is noted for his use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for and reworking of th...more
More about Philip José Farmer...
Farmer is best known for his Riverworld series and the earlier World of Tiers series. He is noted for his use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for and reworking of th...more
Share This Book
No trivia or quizzes yet. Add some now »
