An intellectual tour de force; the most comprehensive reference book for the near-death phenomenon.The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences encompasses every aspect of the near-death phenomenon: the experience, aftereffects, and implications. Atwater’s simple, appealing format includes drawings and cartoons by Spirit Painter and Chuck Vadun and sidebars from experts. She investigates and reports on the power of changed lives, the reality of deceased who come back, visitors at death’s edge, out-of-body travel, the expansion of normal faculties, the awesome presence of Deity and the importance of spirituality. The Sourcebook examines near-death studies from the “Moody Miracle” early days, through the myths of “the light at the end of the tunnel” and “the religion of the resuscitated,” to 2007. After 32 years of work with clinical prospective studies in several countries, the reality of the near-death experience has been verified, confirming its importance in the study of con (more…)

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With his second novel (after 2003’s Gridlinked), a rousing space opera, Asher takes us to Spatterjay, a deadly planet reminiscent of that in Harry Harrison’s 1960 classic Deathworld. Spatterjay has Earth-equivalent gravity and a breathable atmosphere, but it overflows with inimical life forms, from gruesome leeches that grow to the size of sharks to horrific glisters, gigantic shellfish that will eat anything. Worse still, all of Spatterjay’s life forms are infected with a virus that makes them virtually invulnerable to harm. Most of the few human inhabitants are also infected with the virus. Ruling loosely over the world are the superhumanly strong Old Captains, who spend their days aboard ships fishing the planet’s dangerous waters. Three off-worlders land on Spatterjay: the depressed Erlin, who has returned after many years to find Ambel, an Old Captain whom she hopes will give her a reason to go on living; Keech, a long-dead former police monitor (more…)

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Praise for the British Edition:”Gritty. Now, there’s a word you don’t often hear in connection with science fiction — more’s the pity. If all novels could employ this atmosphere as well as Gridlinked does, I could wish that all authors followed Neal Asher’s lead. Then again, this unique style is all Asher’s; it’s highly doubtful that a copy would be as deeply satisfying. . . .And he leaves you eager for more. . . . Is it too early in 2001 to be thinking of a top-ten list? Not with a novel this impressive.”-SF site.“I couldn’t put it down. I even ended up reading it twice. Highly recommended.”—i“Neal Asher makes the move to the big league with Gridlinked . . . [a] fast-moving and enjoyable tale.”—Starburst magazine — Review

ReviewPraise for the British Edition:”Gritty. Now, there’s a word you don’t often hear in connection with science fiction — more’s the pity. If all novels could employ this atmosphere as well as Gridlinked does, I could wish th (more…)

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This is a remarkable piece of SF writing: ambitious, dizzyingly imaginative and not in thrall to any of its predecessors in the SF genre (a rare enough accomplishment in itself). The plot is complex and intriguing. The runcible buffers on Samarkand have been mysteriously sabotaged, killing many thousands and destroying a terraforming object. Agent Cormac must reach it by ship to begin an investigation. But Cormac has incurred the wrath of a vicious psychopath called Pelter, who is prepared to follow him across the galaxy with a terrifying android in tow. Despite the sub-zero temperature of Samarkand, Cormac discovers signs of life: two alien beasts contrived by an extra-galactic entity calling itself ‘Dragon’. Caught between the byzantine wiles of the Dragon and the lethal fury of Pelter, Cormac has to rescue the Samarkand project before his own life is in too much danger. Apart from the vigorous imagination deployed in the plotting, Asher is particularly canny at r (more…)

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