K-Pax V
The Coming of the Bullocks
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5.0 • 1件の評価
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- ¥650
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- ¥650
発行者による作品情報
In this final book of the K-PAX series, Dr. Gene Brewer is approached by visitors from the planet Bullock, who demand that he deliver an ultimatum to the United Nations: Homo sapiens must end the killing of other humans as well as all other animal species living on Earth. Failure to meet this demand will result in the immediate extinction of the human race.
Dr. B is amazed to discover that U.S. Government officials, including the President, have been expecting such visitors (who, though not corporeal, behave like a colony of ants), and are fully prepared to acquiesce to these demands. The problem is that the rest of the world must be convinced that the Bullocks are capable of, and willing to, eliminate human beings from the face of the Earth.
Sometimes funny, always sympathetic, Dr. Brewer has a number of encounters with the Bullocks, in which he experiences undreamed of travels around the galaxy, and to his own past and beyond. For their part, the aliens willingly demonstrate their ability to remove Homo sapiens from this world.
Will the clues found on the mysterious cone-shaped device be deciphered in time to save mankind from extinction? The surprise ending will captivate and reward K-PAX fans everywhere.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This gripping first novel is a moving study of split-personality disorder and of a psychiatrist's desperate efforts to rescue a tragically lost soul. A patient calling himself ``prot'' and claiming to be a visitor from the planet K-PAX, an idyllic world without wars, government, sex or religion, is brought to the Manhattan psychiatric institute run by a character named... Gene Brewer (who is a psychiatrist, not a retired molecular biologist like his creator). Self-assured, wisecracking prot, who seems to possess arcane knowledge of subjects ranging from astronomy to paleontology, announces that he will return to K-PAX on August 17, just two months away. Before then, though, he enlists fellow patients in his fantasy; some of them, touched by his humanity, show marked improvement. Moreover, when Brewer invites prot home for a July Fourth barbecue, the man's mere presence seems to trigger dramatic changes in the psychiatrist's family. Brewer's daughter confesses that she's a lesbian, while his son, a pilot, divulges his deep-seated fear of flying, and switches careers. Aided by Giselle, a sleuthing reporter whose mawkish crush on prot strikes one of the few false notes here, Brewer finally brings out the repressed personality of a man scarred by trauma. Throughout, the narration's matter-of-fact, clinical tone makes this touching and suspenseful story all the more convincing. Film rights to Lawrence Gordon for Universal Pictures; audio rights to Brilliance.
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地球人類の近未来かも
スピリチュアルブームの日本。氾濫する暴力メディア。異常な殺人の多発。現実の世界も本当にプロットの地球人類への9つの提言を実行すべき時に来ているように思う。最終章でドンデン返しの事実⁈が作者= 主人公の息子から明らかにされ、大方の読者はここでこの五部作を荒唐無稽なフィクションと捉えることだろう。ドグラマグラに似た精神病患者の妄想という表向きの結末はそれはそれで面白いのだが、スピ好きの読者にとっては見逃せないポイントが随所に出て来る。宇宙人ユミットの話を知っている読者は、尚更殺人遺伝子や地球人再教育など分かってるねとフムフムと読める筋も有る。一作目は映画化されているが、人類の消えた地球迄の続編を期待したい。無論、ノンフィクションにならない事を祈りつつ。