Foreign Bodies

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When Mike Galloway, a regular sort of guy for San Francisco, 2014, descends into the nightmare world of poverty and joblessness, he finds he must face more than starvation and homelessness. He's now at the mercy of a deadly world of political intrigue...from the future. He awakens to find his mind has been slipped into the body of a homeless woman, his body taken over by a man from the future, and nothing can ever be the same.

Now, to survive, he must combat neo-Nazi forces from the future who are desperate to mold the world to fit their own twisted vision. Galloway might not have thought the world perfect as it was, but these men will stop at nothing to make it a living hell for everyone but their chosen few.

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ISBN-13:	9781466838291
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/04/2000
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	929 KB

About the Author

Stephen Dedman is the author of the novels Foreign Bodies and The Art of Arrow Cutting. The latter was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Horror Novel. His award-nominated short fiction has appeared in most major genre magazines, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov's, and SF Age, as well as such highly regarded anthologies as Little Deaths, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Dreaming Down Under, and Centaurus. A collection of his short work, The Lady of Circumstances, was published in 1999. He lives in Perth, Australia, and is currently working on a third novel of magic noir.

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Foreign Bodies is a good novel, and is never less than entertaining.
— Locus

Jonathan Strahan

Sullen social commentary and a creative investigation of gender and ego prove more prominent than the slow moving plot in Dedman's second novel (after the Bram Stoker-nominated The Art of Arrow Cutting). A few decades into the 21st century, Mike Galloway is a WINner--an official citizen--in a world full of losers. Overzealous social reforms and increased environmental distress have eliminated the legitimacy of the lives of myriad people--called strippers--who are now permanently homeless. Galloway is fascinated by the strippers and, in particular, by Swiftie, a girl who has taken up residence on his balcony and shares his love of science fiction. Over cups of coffee, she dictates to him a story of a dangerous future where time travel might provide the only hope for human survival. What Swiftie doesn't mention is that she herself is from this future and that time travel is accomplished by a form of body snatching. Soon, Galloway finds himself in Swiftie's abandoned body, forced to learn to survive in the wilds of the urban jungle--as a woman. Galloway is aware of classic SF plots and often refers to them in an attempt to frame an understanding of his own situation. Readers who are not familiar with the genre might feel that they are missing something. The story concept itself will hook readers in, but the action takes second place to philosophical explorations. Ultimately, Dedman works out a satisfying ending without making his protagonist overly heroic or pushing a false-toned happily-ever-after. Agent, Richard Curtis. (Dec.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Trapped inside the body of a young woman from the future, Mike Galloway faces the challenge of surviving in the grim world of 21st-century San Francisco while he searches for a way to recover his true form. Galloway's quest leads him to a racist conspiracy of Apocalyptic terrorists whose actions may lead to the destruction of the world. The author of The Art of Arrow Cutting explores the illusory borders of gender and race in this fast-paced sf adventure, which belongs in most sf collections. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Despite trying to juggle two or three completely different ambitions, Foreign Bodies has plenty to recommend it: fast action, an interesting narrator, an acute and convincing portrayal of a frightening subworld that isn't too far removed from what's out there already, a subtle and shrewd commentary on aspects of American political life and on SF itself. And the narrative problems Dedman sets up for himself by telling the story through a first-person narrator who changes bodies and identities during the story is handled with impressive confidence, although a few chapters which shift to the points of view of other characters (in order to get plot points across) seem a bit intrusive and even awkward. Still, it's an impressive performance by a talented writer who seems to know exactly what he's doing, even when he seems to want to do it all at once.
—Locus

Gary K. Wolfe

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