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 Gene Brewer

Title
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 K-Pax
Year 1995
Publisher Bloomsbury
ISBN 0747557683
 

 
Synopsis













 Is he really extraterrestrial?
Or is he just on another planet?

When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place fro him.  However, this patient is unlike anyone Dr Gene Brewer has had to interview before.  Calling himself 'prot' (like goat) he has no traceable background but says he is the inhabitant of the planet K-Pax, an idyllic world where there is no war or famine, and where every being coexists in harmony.  Setting a departure date - August 17th at 3.31 am - on which he plans to return home on a beam of light, 'prot' keeps us guessing right up to the last minute.
 

 
Review



 'This gloriously off-beat comedy reads like a combination of Starman, Oliver Sacks and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
Esquire
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APOD Turns Eight

 

 

Credit: NASA

APOD Turns Eight
The first APOD appeared on 1995 June 16. To date, we estimate that APOD has now served over 100 million space-related images. We again thank our readers and NASA for their continued support, but ask that any potentially congratulatory e-mail go to the folks who created the great pictures -- many times with considerable effort -- that APOD has been fortunate enough to feature over the past year. Many can be contacted by following links found in the credit line under the image. Some of these images are featured in the above spectacular collage submitted by an enthusiastic APOD reader well skilled in digital image manipulation. She challenges fellow APODees to find in the collage her favorite ex-member of the musical group Tangerine Dream. Credit & Copyright: Elana Kestrel (Dreamcircle)

NASA Image of the day archive

  

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