- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Roc (MM) (July 7 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451457528
- ISBN-13: 978-0451457523
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,641,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A brilliant doctor gives up his status as a human being when he becomes a Bergmann surgeon--healing fatal sickness and wounds with psychic powers and mechanical precision. Though a great healer, he is an outcast, and he hand his kind wander from emergency to emergency, at the beck and call of MedAm. When not working, he is drinking, lost in a fog, trying to forget the things which he has lost. But when a dying despot hijacks him, he is forced to face what his life has become, and--with the help of a killer for hire--reclaim what it means to be a healer.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Miracle surgery, but at a terrible cost...,
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This review is from: Flesh And Silver (Paperback)
I enjoyed this book. I recommend it to anyone who liked Stardoc!Dr. Georgory Marchey is a Bergmann Surgeon, an extremely talented physician who sacrificed his hands in order to do miracle surgery that saves lives no one else can save, but at at a terrible cost to both doctor and patient. He is treated as a machine, and feared by all due to the strange nightmarish psychological effects of this new way of doing surgery. Now he drinks his life away as he is shipped from planet to planet like a piece of equipment at the whim of the powers that be. Until he is abducted by an armored Angel, Scylla, and taken to be the personal physician to her psychotic master. This evil man has slowly and terribly transformed a small, isolated, peaceful religious colony into his own personal slice of Hell, with the conflicted Scylla, brainwashed since her childhood, as his unquestioning enforcer. Will Marchey pull himself together in time to save the colony and Scylla?
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great read,
By Brian (Tomball, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Flesh And Silver (Paperback)
A sci-fi book with good character development and enough mystery to prevent you from putting the book down. The intense character development and backflashses slowed the book down, but it's a quick and easy read. Good, strong ending, if a bit predictable.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Need six stars,
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This review is from: Flesh And Silver (Paperback)
Where can I start in describing this book?Good characters? Check. Good concept? Check. Good ending? Check. The author resists the impulse to make the story too heavy-handed, and the characters are idealists that don't always suceed just because the plot demands that the good guys win. Although the good guys win, and man and woman are together, and the plot of the bad guys is foiled. But along the way, we see that the characters are fallable. Not in that annoying anti-hero sort of way - that manages to triumph against all odds. In the way that you and I are fallable. In a way that sometimes, we overcome our failures and rise above them. To look at the review, it would seem to be another story about another set of people that has a happy ending. While this is certainly true, I find that I lack the words to explain why I read this story as quickly as I could. Perhaps because it is balanced. Trying to put it into words makes the story seem weaker than it is. Perhaps it is the simplicity that is appealing. A simple story about a man that overcomes his weakness. A man that crawls out of a bottle and makes something of his life. Perhaps not too plausible, perhaps a bit to neat and happy an ending, but certainly one that I read toward, and enjoyed. And that's all one really needs to say about a book. Buy it!
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