Healer

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Summary: Wonderful, pure escapism!
Review: I first read this book some 20 years ago, and it has haunted me ever since. I truely wonderful bit of sci-fi spanning time, space and mortality. Whilst it was in my possession I read it many many times, but made the unfortunate mistake of lending it to someone, never to see it again. Some time later I discovered the LaNague chronicles (encapsulating "Healer") and got the book. Whilst Healer remains my all time favorite, LaNague is almost as good a read. Should anyone know of or have contact with Mr F Paul Wilson, would they extend my thanks, and plead with him on my behalf to put pen to paper (or fingers to key-board) and produce further "Steve & pard" novels, as there is far to much meat on this bone to let them off travelling the universe and time in just one book!

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Summary: A great read!
Review: I have always liked this book since I found it in a second-hand book store years ago (Why anyone would want to dump this book is beyond me). I keep coming back to it and re-reading it just to immerse myself in the imaginative and well-written tale of an ordinary man who has immortality unexpectedly thrust upon him. How he deals with this and the huge scale of the book (both in time and space) make for a great read.

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Summary: a myth of the far future
Review: I have always loved this book. It has a lyrical quality to it, and a vast time scale. I didn't know about the La Nauge chronicles before the other reviewer mentioned it, but the short story prior to this one with the same main character "the terry" is good, but not as good as this book.

Really worth a read if you run across a second hand copy.

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Summary: Best read in ages!
Review: I polished this off quickly. Although short, a great read with libertarian theme and message of individualism running through it. I look forward to the re-release "Lanagae Chronicles" which has this book plus his next two on this theme

Rating:
Summary: A good read
Review: I read this book when I was young and still read it every few years to relive the magic. About a man who finds immortality unexpectantly, and then has to figure out what to do with it and how to fit in socially through time when nobody knows what he has. The climax is a bit lame, but this doesn't detract from a brilliant read.

Rating:
Summary: A good read
Review: I read this book when I was young and still read it every few years to relive the magic. About a man who finds immortality unexpectantly, and then has to figure out what to do with it and how to fit in socially through time when nobody knows what he has. The climax is a bit lame, but this doesn't detract from a brilliant read.

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Summary: Great for the coming Machine Age
Review: Iread this novel 22 years ago and loved it. If you love freedom
and sci-fi you've got to read this book. And if you're a gun nut
you'll love the shotgun Steve and Pard use in the ending; and the planet Flint!

Rating:
Summary: The Healer
Review: Iread this novel 22 years ago and loved it. If you love freedom
and sci-fi you've got to read this book. And if you're a gun nut
you'll love the shotgun Steve and Pard use in the ending; and the planet Flint!

Rating:
Summary: Great for the coming Machine Age
Review: Pard is a perfect analog to the coming "shared conciousness" that machines will offer us.

Justifies the 5 star rating over time. Deeply moving on many fronts over the years..

A great read for ages 10 & up, I wholey recommend adding this to your Library & read-list. Worth re-reading every few years.

Good ethics, fine morals, confronting action.

One of F. Paul Wilson's finer early works..

Mandatory sci-fi qualifications - "Have you read The Healer, Paul Wilson? Please describe Pard.."

Rating:
Summary: Great for the coming Machine Age
Review: Pard is a perfect analog to the coming "shared conciousness" that machines will offer us.

Justifies the 5 star rating over time. Deeply moving on many fronts over the years..

A great read for ages 10 & up, I wholey recommend adding this to your Library & read-list. Worth re-reading every few years.

Good ethics, fine morals, confronting action.

One of F. Paul Wilson's finer early works..

Mandatory sci-fi qualifications - "Have you read The Healer, Paul Wilson? Please describe Pard.."