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THORNS is a novel published in 1967.
Minner is an astronaut who's been atrociously mutilated by the inhabitants of an alien planet before sent back to Earth. He has become a freak so when Chalk, a wealthy businessman, promises to finance an operation in order to transplant Minner's brain in a new body, he accepts Chalk's conditions : to become for the next 5 years the center of the public's attention thanks to Chalk's medias empire. So Chalk secretly organizes the encounter between Minner and Lona, a marked by life woman who, when she was seventeen, had been chosen to give 100 ova to the science in order to become the mother of 100 children. Minner and Chalk are offered a sumptuous honeymoon trip followed by an audience of millions. But there are too many social differences between the astronaut and the young girl and both of them will continue to suffer.
Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Book
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%
Tone of book
- depressing/sad
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Romance
Yes
Romance plotlets:
- love among disparate social classes
Lifeform altered?
Yes
Kind of alteration:
- exotic/alien torture for major character
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- engineer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- wealthy
Has magical powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- can read emotions
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- quite fatty
Setting
Terrain
- Planet surface, need spacesuit
- Domed/Underground City
- Asteroid
Which planet?
- Asteroids
- Earth's Moon
Earth setting:
- medium future 22-24th century
Spaceship setting:
- futuristic human freighter/transport
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Takes place in spaceship?
Yes
Not Earth, in Solar System?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to torture
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- some scientific explanation
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- actual description of sex
- description of breasts
- descript. of non-breast female anat.
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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