Resurrection

by Katharine Kerr

"IT'S IN YOUR WIRING..."

Shot down over Israel, Air Services pilot Tiffany Owens dies.

Twice.

And is brought back to life.

Twice.

The crash leaves dead nerve endings in Tiffany's brain, dead-ends she must learn to "wire around" before she can regain control of her mind and body. But Tiffany discovers discrepancies between her memory and the world around her.

Minor discrepancies--like the fact that California is a state, not a sovereign nation. That a book she once read doesn't exist.

The she was a ferryman in a half-armed plane, not a combat pilot.

The doctors claim these discrepancies are glitches in her wiring.

Maybe.

But Tiffany suspects there be another truth...

RESURRECTION

A stunning tale of survival and courage.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy

100 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Born in Ohio, 1944. Moved to San Francisco Bay Area in 1962 and has lived there ever since. Katharine Kerr has read extensively in the fields of classical archeology, and medieval and dark ages history and literature, and these influences are clear in her work. Her epic Deverry series has won widespread praise and millions of fans around the world.

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a novella set in a post-collapse San Francisco in the not-too-distant future of a war-torn world. Tiffany is a former military pilot who has died twice, been resuscitated, and now suffers severe physical and mental traumas. She gets around as well as she can, but has trouble distinguishing reality and, in short, she's a very unreliable narrator. She's visited by representatives of God and Satan, told to choose between staying where she is and returning to the alternate world that an atomic explosion blew her out of... or is she? How can she tell if they're really there, or delusions from her imagination? Perhaps the answer lies in the pages of an obscure science fiction novel she started to read before her accident but now can't seem to find. Or maybe it doesn't. It's a coin flip; is the Kerr novel under discussion science fiction or fantasy? It's a little hard to follow and some of the characters become a little tiresome, but it's a thought-provoking short novel.

[Dannica · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mostly just kind of boring.

[Brittany · Rating 4 out of 5]

While parts of the writing were confusing (running towards stream of consciousness style) I enjoyed this book as a whole, it was an interesting story, that asked deep questions.

[Secret · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not what I expected, but still a decent book that just needed something more.

[Andreas · Rating 1 out of 5]

This one is thankfully short. A novelette of just over a hundred pages in large-ish print. Even so I kept thinking that someone like Niven could have told the same story in less than thirty pages. Our hero has been “resurrected” after a plane crash incurred in combat. Her brain is still recovering from the injuries and she is having a hard time telling the truth from hallucination. Or is she?

I was quite dissapointed with this. So much interesting stuff to work with, such as the multiple realities, the Devil and the Rabbi, the process of medical resurrection itself. But it’s all quite bland really. Our protagonist Tiffany wanders about a predictable and very poor San Francisco in a confused daze. Her boyfriend is bland. Her family is bland. The Devil and the Rabbi are kind of interesting but not enough to redeem the story. If it had been any longer, I would not have finished it.

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