Visionen Eines Insiders

by Christopher Evans

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Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

232 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 1983

About the author

Christopher D. Evans also writes as Christopher Carpenter, Nathan Elliott, Robert Knight and John Lyon.

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Christopher D. Evans was born in 1951 in Tredegar and educated at Cardiff University between 1969–1972, and Swansea University 1973–4. He now lives in South London, where he teaches science full-time at a secondary school. His first novel, Capella’s Golden Eyes, was published in 1980. With Robert Holdstock, he co-edited the Other Edens Series of original science fiction and fantasy anthologies which appeared in the late 1980s. Aztec Century (Gollancz, 1993) won the BSFA Award for Best Novel of 1993 and was runner-up for the Wales Book of the Year Award. Christopher also writes as Christopher Carpenter, Nathan Elliott, Robert Knight and John Lyon.

Reviews

[Liviu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another gem from Mr. Evans who is fast becoming one of my all time favorite authors. This one is a pretty disturbing portrait of psychological and societal alienation. Literally in the first case since the main character is a mysterious alien who found himself translated and taking over the body of a young teen George Blair in WW2 bombed out London.

As George Blair the alien lived a lonely, humanity observing quiet life as a mid-list career writer but then he had a heart attack and while dying he transfered by automatic reflex his consciousness to a 41 year old management consultant Stephen Marsh.

But Stephen Marsh has a family, a wife of Indian extraction Rita, a college age daughter, friends and the alien/Stephen suddenly feels unable to cope with that. To top it, the world is undergoing tumultuous upheavals - it's an alternate mid 80's - and in Britain a Neonazi Unity Party is slowly gaining power advocating among other things the forced deportation of all non-native British including citizen spouses like Rita. And the demagogue leader of the UP has a secret that could threaten his public image and which somehow gets connected with Stephen's family.

But wait a minute, is the alien thing true or is just Stephen Marsh suffering extreme stress due to overwork and imaging his life as George Blair?

With a shocking denouement this short 200 page novel is one of the most chilling, dark and gripping reads of this year.

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a young boy, an alien consciousness takes over the mind and body of George Blair. Fifty something years later, the body dies and the consciousness moves on to the body of Stephen Marsh.
At first glance, this looks like an alien invasion novel. It soon becomes clear that it is very far from this. Set against a backdrop of a Britain where the economy is collapsing and unpleasant far-right parties are starting to dominate British politics, this investigates either what it is like to be a stray consciousness trying to survive in a new host or it is about a man going through a mid-life crisis and heading towards a nervous breakdown.
Following his mind being taken over, Stephen becomes more and more detached from the world as he tries to come to terms with his situation and new-found personality. Again, either Stephen is finding a way of withdrawing from a world becoming harder to live in or the alien is trying to settle into its new host. Either way, it is an intriguing study of alienation.