Pub: Bantam
Price: $0.95
See Also: 1997 (revised version)
Dean Koontz - Long Fiction - 1973
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Aphrodisiac Girl
Pub: Oval Press |
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Demon Seed
Pub: Bantam |
| Brooding, gothic, and strange, this is every bit as much a novel of suspense as a work of science fiction. Its original title, changed at the publisher's insistence, was House of Night. The central premise of Demon Seed is original and striking: that an intelligent computer, having attained self-awareness, would be dissatisfied by the restrictions of its narrow, disembodied condition and would long to inhabit a body and experience a more sensuous existence. | |
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Hanging On
Pub: Atheneum |
| As the opening sentence attests, this was a straight comic novel set in World War II. The author wrote Hanging On largely because he has always been interested in black comedy but also because he wanted to write something utterly different that would, in one stroke, erase his reputation as strictly a science-fiction novelist. He didn't quite succeed at making people forget his brief but prolific career in science-fiction, but he did get a good deal of attention for this change of direction. Critics were unanimous in finding the novel hilarious. The author does intend to have the book reissued in years to come, though with an introduction that will prepare his current readers for this very different work. | |
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The Haunted Earth
Pub: Lancer |
| This is a science-fiction fantasy novel set in a near future wracked by tremendous changes, wherein mythical figures like vampires and werewolves and banshees are proven to be real co-inhabitants of our world. It's a comic novel, too, indicating Koontz's early interest in making readers laugh as well as shiver. | |
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A Werewolf Among Us
Pub: Ballantine |
| "A cyberdetective is part man and part computer, meshed as completely as the two can ever be. The highly microminiaturized components of the bio-computer remember and relate things in a perfectly mathematical manner that a human mind could never easily grasp, while the human half of the symbiote gives a perception of emotions and emotional motivations that the bio-computer could never comprehend. Together we make a precise and thorough detective unit." | |