Project Barrier
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
The first starship to Centauri could only carry 120lb. of human being, yet required three specialist crewmen to handle it. The solution was radical but relatively simple. Take a twelve-year-old girl weighing 100lb., and impress the personalities of three ideal crew members on her mind.
These 'shadow' crewmen then took the ship—with the girl—to the stars. Quite naturally the four became close friends—which would make for a decidedly complex problem when they returned.
From the psychiatrists point of view he's merely restoring the girl's sanity. But from the crew's point of view it's murder!
Here is a unique collection from a distinctive author whose works include such classic titles as Dark Universe and Similacron-3. Project Barrier showcases five loosely-connected stories, never before published in the U.S.
In 'Rub-a-Dub' Galouye helps us explore what it is that makes us human, in a future were advanced technologies can copy a person’s mental imprint—or is it their soul?—into someone else’s body. And in 'Shuffle Board', we leap forward into a potential future that explores the damage the human race has caused to Earth, and to our very own genome itself. For what is it that makes us who we are? Our mind, or what it is housed in?
Galouye takes this concept one step further when he places humanity on new planets in 'Recovery Area',' and 'Reign of the Telepuppets', to show us how Man can (re)discover himself, when experiencing a first contact scenario. Do we rise to the occasion, as a race, or show our uglier side as a result of miscommunication and ignorance?
How better to answer that question, then to read what happens in the collection’s title piece, 'Project Barrier', where Galouye dazzles the reader with the most tantalizing “What if?” in the entire book. The novelette is a fascinating study of a possible evolutionary decision we could make, as we expand our spiritual and galactic horizons.
Galouye is going to mess with your mind, and make you think, as you consider the moral implications this collection offers forth…. Enjoy the journey. It’s going to be one hell of a bumpy ride!
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
The first starship to Centauri could only carry 120lb. of human being, yet required three specialist crewmen to handle it. The solution was radical but relatively simple. Take a twelve-year-old girl weighing 100lb., and impress the personalities of three ideal crew members on her mind.
These 'shadow' crewmen then took the ship—with the girl—to the stars. Quite naturally the four became close friends—which would make for a decidedly complex problem when they returned.
From the psychiatrists point of view he's merely restoring the girl's sanity. But from the crew's point of view it's murder!
Here is a unique collection from a distinctive author whose works include such classic titles as Dark Universe and Similacron-3. Project Barrier showcases five loosely-connected stories, never before published in the U.S.
In 'Rub-a-Dub' Galouye helps us explore what it is that makes us human, in a future were advanced technologies can copy a person’s mental imprint—or is it their soul?—into someone else’s body. And in 'Shuffle Board', we leap forward into a potential future that explores the damage the human race has caused to Earth, and to our very own genome itself. For what is it that makes us who we are? Our mind, or what it is housed in?
Galouye takes this concept one step further when he places humanity on new planets in 'Recovery Area',' and 'Reign of the Telepuppets', to show us how Man can (re)discover himself, when experiencing a first contact scenario. Do we rise to the occasion, as a race, or show our uglier side as a result of miscommunication and ignorance?
How better to answer that question, then to read what happens in the collection’s title piece, 'Project Barrier', where Galouye dazzles the reader with the most tantalizing “What if?” in the entire book. The novelette is a fascinating study of a possible evolutionary decision we could make, as we expand our spiritual and galactic horizons.
Galouye is going to mess with your mind, and make you think, as you consider the moral implications this collection offers forth…. Enjoy the journey. It’s going to be one hell of a bumpy ride!
Condition: Adventurer’s Companion
Size: Small Paperback (11 cm x 18 cm)
Book Blurb
The first starship to Centauri could only carry 120lb. of human being, yet required three specialist crewmen to handle it. The solution was radical but relatively simple. Take a twelve-year-old girl weighing 100lb., and impress the personalities of three ideal crew members on her mind.
These 'shadow' crewmen then took the ship—with the girl—to the stars. Quite naturally the four became close friends—which would make for a decidedly complex problem when they returned.
From the psychiatrists point of view he's merely restoring the girl's sanity. But from the crew's point of view it's murder!
Here is a unique collection from a distinctive author whose works include such classic titles as Dark Universe and Similacron-3. Project Barrier showcases five loosely-connected stories, never before published in the U.S.
In 'Rub-a-Dub' Galouye helps us explore what it is that makes us human, in a future were advanced technologies can copy a person’s mental imprint—or is it their soul?—into someone else’s body. And in 'Shuffle Board', we leap forward into a potential future that explores the damage the human race has caused to Earth, and to our very own genome itself. For what is it that makes us who we are? Our mind, or what it is housed in?
Galouye takes this concept one step further when he places humanity on new planets in 'Recovery Area',' and 'Reign of the Telepuppets', to show us how Man can (re)discover himself, when experiencing a first contact scenario. Do we rise to the occasion, as a race, or show our uglier side as a result of miscommunication and ignorance?
How better to answer that question, then to read what happens in the collection’s title piece, 'Project Barrier', where Galouye dazzles the reader with the most tantalizing “What if?” in the entire book. The novelette is a fascinating study of a possible evolutionary decision we could make, as we expand our spiritual and galactic horizons.
Galouye is going to mess with your mind, and make you think, as you consider the moral implications this collection offers forth…. Enjoy the journey. It’s going to be one hell of a bumpy ride!
