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The Godmakers
Patrick Honor was possessed by PPS, Psychic Power Sources, which led him, even tho he couldn't understand them. Beyond understanding was beyond feeling was knowing. Patrick Honor knew only that he had to go on. He had to explore the unknown, to escape his body, to travel to the root octave of the 9th Parallax. He had to find Octavia, the unearthly beauty who beckoned him from another world. There was so much to learn. What was the real power source? Was it sex or science or...love? What was the meaning of the number nine? Why was the President of the USA going to die on June 15, 1975? Eighty one days, exactly, before Patrick Honor's death!
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188 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1970
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January 5, 2015
I really hated enjoying this book. Do not confuse it with the collection of short stories by Frank Herbert. Likewise it is not the religious expose book about the Mormon religion. This is just a lowly 70's sci-fi filled with bizarre ethereal dreams-capes and group sex...
Don Pendleton's novel (originally published under the pseudonym Dan Britain) revolves around a government investigator names Patrick Honor. Honor has been roped into driving out to a research lab in the sticks by his boss and a lovely lovely lady (who works in a research lab). The lab is researching the harnessing of PPS (Psychic Power Sources) the ultimate energy.
Strangely, the head of the lab has gone a bit loopy and started babbling about the power of nine (9), he has scrawled a series of strange names and dates, each separated by eighty-one (81) days. Looking at the names, they can see that see that the first seven (7) are either dead or incapacitated on the dates associated. The eighth name is the president of the United States, and the ninth is Honor himself.
With a strange list of dead folks and only 14 days until the date associated with the president, Honor jumps jumps in his steam powered car (there are gas cars as well, but steam is faster, quieter, etc) and heads out to the research lab.
From here the book becomes even more confusing, with topics ranging from: mind powered cars, a killer East Indian, people disassociated with their own minds, melding/traveling to a ninth dimensions where all life began. Apparently everything we know is a dream and we are deluding ourselves.
Oh yeah, and the only way the world can be saved is by having long meaningful passionate (but not selfish) sexual relations with everyone around us..
If you like strange dated science fiction with angry chauvinists who become ultimate caring feminists after having intercourse with strange scientists.. this might be the book for you :)
This book was interesting, but I am glad I only spent a dollar on it. Justifying more than that would be difficult. It was neither good nor bad, entertaining for the time I put into it, but unlikely to stay on my shelf for a second reading.
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Don Pendleton's novel (originally published under the pseudonym Dan Britain) revolves around a government investigator names Patrick Honor. Honor has been roped into driving out to a research lab in the sticks by his boss and a lovely lovely lady (who works in a research lab). The lab is researching the harnessing of PPS (Psychic Power Sources) the ultimate energy.
Strangely, the head of the lab has gone a bit loopy and started babbling about the power of nine (9), he has scrawled a series of strange names and dates, each separated by eighty-one (81) days. Looking at the names, they can see that see that the first seven (7) are either dead or incapacitated on the dates associated. The eighth name is the president of the United States, and the ninth is Honor himself.
With a strange list of dead folks and only 14 days until the date associated with the president, Honor jumps jumps in his steam powered car (there are gas cars as well, but steam is faster, quieter, etc) and heads out to the research lab.
From here the book becomes even more confusing, with topics ranging from: mind powered cars, a killer East Indian, people disassociated with their own minds, melding/traveling to a ninth dimensions where all life began. Apparently everything we know is a dream and we are deluding ourselves.
Oh yeah, and the only way the world can be saved is by having long meaningful passionate (but not selfish) sexual relations with everyone around us..
If you like strange dated science fiction with angry chauvinists who become ultimate caring feminists after having intercourse with strange scientists.. this might be the book for you :)
This book was interesting, but I am glad I only spent a dollar on it. Justifying more than that would be difficult. It was neither good nor bad, entertaining for the time I put into it, but unlikely to stay on my shelf for a second reading.
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April 23, 2023
okay weeeird shit. picked it up randomly at a thrift book store for the cover, bought it for the ridiculousness, finished it for the “wtf” factor. i’ve never read a book where i truly had no idea where it was going next more than this one.
it’s like obviously not great: bit racist, kinda sexist, very heteronormative and just old in general. also very freudian but i liked the incorporation of Jung’s collective unconscious. the whole sex thing was a really weird concept but ngl overall interesting incorporation of psychology.
now the character growth was good but Honor randomly “discovered” way too much and it didn’t make sense. didn’t like how he was So Smart but the idea of the collective unconscious being a Rogue God and sex being a different God and humans are fighting to build the gods and fighting each other is so wild to me. i cannot comprehend what happened. why did i read this book.
unfortunately it was so wild i did enjoy reading it, literally never picked something like this up in my life. would not recommend, but enjoyed reading it. oh but it got kinda incestual toward the end not a fan. nothing made sense and it was so interesting. bad but interesting. idek.
it’s like obviously not great: bit racist, kinda sexist, very heteronormative and just old in general. also very freudian but i liked the incorporation of Jung’s collective unconscious. the whole sex thing was a really weird concept but ngl overall interesting incorporation of psychology.
now the character growth was good but Honor randomly “discovered” way too much and it didn’t make sense. didn’t like how he was So Smart but the idea of the collective unconscious being a Rogue God and sex being a different God and humans are fighting to build the gods and fighting each other is so wild to me. i cannot comprehend what happened. why did i read this book.
unfortunately it was so wild i did enjoy reading it, literally never picked something like this up in my life. would not recommend, but enjoyed reading it. oh but it got kinda incestual toward the end not a fan. nothing made sense and it was so interesting. bad but interesting. idek.
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