Alien Embassy

by Ian Watson

Paperback, 1978

Status

Available

Call number

823.9

Publication

Ace Books (1978), Mass Market Paperback

Description

Lila Makindi grows up in East Africa in a peaceful and harmonious 22nd century world, which has succeeded our own age of extravagance, environmental damage, and warfare.Its citizens know that the Space Communications Administration, better known as Bardo, is guiding the planet benevolently, thanks to contact with wise aliens by means, not of grandiose spaceships, but of psychic travel powered by the sexual techniques of tantric yoga. Wonderfully, Lila is chosen for psychic starflight. But she discovers that in reality mental starflight is spinning a web of protection around the world to safeguard the human race from a malign alien energy force, the Starbeast. Yet is this the true reality? Only when Lila travels to Tibet does she discover the actual, unexpected purpose behind Bardo.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1977

Physical description

306 p.; 17 cm

ISBN

0441014755 / 9780441014750

Local notes

Omslag: Dean Ellis
Omslaget viser en sovende pige, nogle måleinstrumenter, et gedebukke kranie og stjerner
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi

Pages

306

Rating

½ (17 ratings; 2.7)

DDC/MDS

823.9
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