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Out of the Labyrinth

Out of the Labyrinth

  by John Likides
  ISBN13: 978-1-4010-7420-3 (Trade Paperback)
  ISBN: 1-4010-7420-0 (Trade Paperback)
  Pages: 372
  Subject: FICTION / General

Availability
Paperback prices reflect 15% discount off retail
Hardback prices reflect 10% discount off retail

Trade Paperback  $19.54

 

Description

Out of the Labyrinth is a literary romance novel of ideas about synchronicity, reincarnation, and unprecedented uses of technology—told from the viewpoint of a freethinker in search of enlightened peers with whom to jam, an authentic mystic with whom to study, and an intellectual babe with whom to shack up.... After a decade of conducting experiments in posthumous sustain with the use of super computers and theurgic drugs, a wealthy programming wiz has a suspicious motorcycle accident, falls into a coma, but is sustained by a computer system and his Zen teacher, an American original with extraordinary powers.... The book’s mellifluous language, the keen psychological insights, the succinct articulation of the main philosophical arguments for and against the existence of god, the insightful connections among classics from The Republic to Ulysses, and the synthesis of Western skepticism with Eastern mysticism comprise a profoundly original thesis about humanity’s potential for immortality in this universe and on to others, beginning in the here and now—told from the perspective of a freethinker looking for the intellectual babe of his dreams while his alter ego is pestering him to hurry up and get laid....


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