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Fremder (Paperback)

by Russell Hoban (Author)
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  • Paperback: 196 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New edition edition (6 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747561648
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747561644
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 44,723 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'An urgent, bitterly ironic but, at the last, tender evocation of the capacities of the human spirit'

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Fourth Galaxy, 4 November 2052: in the black sparkle of deep space a figure in a blue overall tumbles over and over as it drifts towards the planet Badr-al-Budur. No space suit, no helmet, no oxygen. He can't be alive, can he? But he is. First Navigator Fremder Gorn is the only survivor when the Corporation tanker Clever Daughter disappears. Nobady knows how he did it, and everybody, including Fremder himself, wants to know. Caroline Lovecraft, Head of the Physio/Psycho unit at Newton Centre, Hubble Straits finds that intimacy doesn't lead to answers and Fremder's own memories are resolutely obscure. Fremder's name means stranger, and his story, as one would expect from Russell Hoban, is full of strangeness and brilliant imagery.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not really sci-fi (in genre terms, anyway)., 18 Oct 1998
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In some ways a companion piece to The Medusa Frequency (itself a distant sibling of Kleinzeit) toying with reality - peaking with lines that just take your breath away. With the possibly exception of Riddley Walker, the darkest of Hoban's works. If you're fed up with flashy nonsense sci-fi and fantasy, this taps into terror in the same way that Kafka and JG Ballard do. If you think that science fiction is a dead-end junk genre this is more evidence to the contrary. It's a sin that it hasn't been issued in paperback yet.
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5.0 out of 5 stars As perfect and exquisite as it gets, 12 Aug 2008
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Russell Hoban is an excellent writer. But Fremder transcends even that - deeply unsettling, overflowing with psychological insight that resonates and disturbs despite its setting, and thrilling. Fully in that school of speculative fiction that would also include Stanislaw Lem (and even a little Philip K Dick). Not only the best Russell Hoban novel, but quite possibly the best thing that I have ever read. Exquisite - get it now.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting, 11 Jul 2008
This is a haunting tale which echoes in your mind long after you finish it. This is in part due to the story itself, but in part, as always with Russell Hoban, due to the story-telling. The dialogue, too has that unique Hoban flavour: sparse and offbeat. I suppose it's scifi or fantasy or something, but like Riddley Walker, it defies categorisation. Just read it - and enjoy!
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