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Author Name: Aldiss, Brian W.
Title: Sanity And The Lady.
Book Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Publisher: PS Publishing: Harrogate. 2005.
ISBN Number: 190461924X / 9781904619246
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 15571
Short novel: introduction by Ian R. Macleod. 500 numbered trade hardcover edition signed by the author.
''''They're the reason why xenophobia was invented.'' So says Uncle Toby, renegade member of the Laurence family. The comfortable Laurence family lead a fairly traditional life. They have a manservant to look after them. The sea is nearby, as is the psychotherapist. Edgar Laurence is a well-known pianist. His grand-daughter, Laura Broughton, is a famous novelist. Of course, the family has its problems. There's an unmarried mother with a small child. There are mobs at the gates, divorces, illicit love affairs and a suicide - or is that two suicides? But life goes on. Until the night when a meteorite burns out in earth's atmosphere. It releases a number of microscopic beings. Well, if not beings, at least functions. They are a mystery, a challenge to human imagination. However, if you have one entering your brain, you may be able to communicate with it, perhaps to your advantage. Here is what humans have long wanted, a chance to study alien life. They do not like it when they get it. Laura Broughton defends the visitors while the world becomes more and more alarmed. That's what gets her into trouble. And finally, the visitors astonish us all''.
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