The Course of the Heart (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: M. John Harrison
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—inner space
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Northern England
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, 1980’s, England or English people, Students or student life
- Locales: England
The Plot
While at school, the unnamed narrator and two fellow university students, Pam Stuyvesant and Lucas Medlar, take part in a magical ritual under the guidance of Yaxley. Somehow they touch another realm, the Pleroma, and find themselves unable to escape its effects throughout the rest of their lives. Each one brings back a familiar. For Pam it is a ghostly white couple forever engaged in sexual embrace, for Lucas it is a monkeylike creature who constantly disrupts his life and surroundings, and for the narrator, apparently more blessed, it is the sight and smell of...
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