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Foreign Bodies (Paperback)
by Stephen Dedman (Author)
2.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc. (29 Nov 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0312872593
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312872595
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 689,041 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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In this tale of time travel Mike Galloway is struggling to cope in a 21st century depression. Waking up in time-traveller Swiftie's body, he embarks on a journey of self discovery whilst racist factions swirl around a charismatic leader who may be another time traveller gone mad.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Invaders from the future cross the genderline, 7 Dec 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: Foreign Bodies (Hardcover)
This very oddball story manages to balance the story of a timetravelling conspiracy with the story of a man forced to swap genders.

Mike Galloway helps a young woman he finds on his balcony, apparently homeless and alone he tries to help her he awakes the next morning in her body.

As he struggles to come to terms with this he (or now she) uncovers a sinister plott from timetravelling villains.

The gender changing is thought provoking and the plot, well the plot isn't bad. Worth a read.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing follow-up to the Art of Arrow Cutting, 14 Dec 2000
By HLT (Wales, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Having really enjoyed Stephen Dedman's debut novel ("The Art of Arrow Cutting"), my high expectations of his new work were sadly not fulfilled.

The premises are reasonably interesting, particularly the idea of a prosperous male waking up as a homeless female. The lead character engaged me enough to care about his/her fate.

But was it really necessary to have the characters explain the possible paradoxes of "time travelling to change the past" to each other (presumably for the benefit of the handful of readers who haven't met these concepts before)? This sort of "exposition by dialogue" always seems artificial to me, and it's used in more than one place in this novel.

The main problem was with credibility, there were several major plot points where I was thinking "that's just not believable".

By contrast, the Art of Arrow Cutting (which included mythical Japanese monsters walking the modern world) presented me with no problems in suspending my disbelief.

Here's hoping that Dedman returns to form with his forthcoming sequel to "Arrow Cutting".

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