Recalled to Life
Sep 2011 · Hachette UK
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When a nervous scientist from Beller Laboratories approached James Harker, asking him to introduce a new scientific discovery to the world, Harker had his own reasons for agreeing. The discovery was a reanimation process - bringing the recently dead back to life. But Harker hadn't anticipated treachery within the ranks of the scientists working on the process, nor on the consternation and mounting hysteria when the news broke. James Harker faced the most demanding task of his life - and he didn't know if he would live to see the results.
(First published 1962)
When a nervous scientist from Beller Laboratories approached James Harker, asking him to introduce a new scientific discovery to the world, Harker had his own reasons for agreeing. The discovery was a reanimation process - bringing the recently dead back to life. But Harker hadn't anticipated tre...
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Bill Sargent
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October 15, 2026
"The eyes of the man on the operating table had fluttered open, and were staring toward the ceiling. They were not the beady, alert, eager eyes of [spoiler removed]. They were the dull, glazed, slack-muscled eyes of an idiot." Ex-US governor / lawyer invited to do legal and pr work for top secret reanimation lab in 2033. This is the kind of light horror book I wish james herbert could have managed, but alas only Silverberg is good enough - drum tight prose, subtle, cute style rhythm and flow. It reads like a quality version of a mainstream King horror without the effin and jeffin and batshit-ing and old timers using the C word every 25 pages; without the aging main prot (King and the reader) getting to hump the 36 year old who'd retained her high school figure. It's similar in many ways to King's Dead Zone which i enjoyed some years ago. Maybe this inspired him.
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Robert Silverberg was born in 1935 and began to write while studying for his BA at Columbia University. He is one of the most prolific of all SF writers and among his many fine novels are Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, A Time of Changes and Lord Valentine's Castle.
Robert Silverberg was born in 1935 and began to write while studying for his BA at Columbia University. He is one of the most prolific of all SF writers and among his many fine novels are Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, A Time of Changes and Lord Valentine's Castle.
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