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The first aliens to contact Earth, mysterious beings called the Travellers, bring the gift of immortality to those humans who choose to accept it--and the price it exacts. While most people leap at the chance to live forever, even at the cost of their humanity, a few hold on to their mortality and find themselves the inheritors of a strangely transformed future. This latest novel by the author of A Bridge of Years (LJ 8/91) combines expert storytelling with a thoughtful exploration of the bond between mortality and the human condition. A good choice for most libraries.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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As he watches his friends and family transform into immortal beings after expressing to the Traveller their wish to live forever, Oregon physician Matt Wheeler begins to suspect that the Traveller and his kind are up to no good. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Harvest, Feb 25 2000

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Heidi E. Fronheiser (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Harvest (Mass Market Paperback)

Why are all the best books out of print? And why didn't this man get some sort of award for this book? It was an old topic explored in an original way. I read this on a road trip from Ohio to Florida, and I will tell you, I hated when I had to take my turn driving. I could not get my mind off of this book from page one until the end. What an excellent storyteller this author is!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Secular Rapture?, Jan 26 2000

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This review is from: The Harvest (Paperback)

I loved this book. A kind of "Childhood's End" and secularized Christian Rapture rolled into one. The author writes like Wyndham or Wells, in that the narrator is part of the action but also dispassionately observing the flow. The protagonist of course wishes to have none of it. While everyone has answered the Big Question of immortality in the affirmative, he is skeptical of apotheosis and throws in his lot on the side of his own mortality. In the end, immortality is at a price, assimilation. The book casts a spell of mystery over the reader in that the aliens and their purpose is never revealed. One wonders if our species is really gullable to the point that any confidence artist coming down the celestial highway pedaling immortality in the form of the savior would make us sell our souls for it. Is the novel a satire then of our moral turpitude or a call to existential redemption? I wish the author would give us more wonderful stories.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Encore!, Nov 26 1999

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RussSk8@cs.com (Denver) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Harvest (Mass Market Paperback)

This book begs for a sequel. Where is Mr. Wilson and why is he not writing?

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