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Passage (2001)

Tekijä: Connie Willis

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Fiction. Literature. Thriller. HTML:One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless suspense and cutting-edge science unlike anything you've ever read before.

It is the electrifying story of a psychologist who has devoted her life to tracking death. But when she volunteers for a research project that simulates the near-death experience, she will either solve life's greatest mystery ?? or fall victim to its greatest terror.

At Mercy General Hospital, Dr. Joanna Lander will soon be paged ?? not to save a life, but to interview a patient just back from the dead. A psychologist specializing in near-death experiences, Joanna has spent two years recording the experiences of those who have been declared clinically dead and lived to tell about it.

It's research on the fringes of ordinary science, but Joanna is about to get a boost from an unexpected quarter. A new doctor has arrived at Mercy General, one with the power to give Joanna the chance to get as close to death as anyone can.

A brilliant young neurologist, Dr. Richard Wright has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience using a psychoactive drug. Dr. Wright is convinced that the NDE is a survival mechanism and that if only doctors understood how it worked, they could someday delay the dying process, or maybe even reverse it. He can use the expertise of a psychologist of Joanna Lander's standing to lend credibility to his study.

But he soon needs Joanna for more than just her reputation. When his key volunteer suddenly drops out of the study, Joanna finds herself offering to become Richard's next subject. After all, who better than she, a trained psychologist, to document the experience?

Her first NDE is as fascinating as she imagined it would be ?? so astounding that she knows she must go back, if only to find out why this place is so hauntingly familiar. But each time Joanna goes under, her sense of dread begins to grow, because part of her already knows why the experience is so familiar, and why she has every reason to be afraid....

And just when you think you know where she is going, Willis throws in the biggest surprise of all ?? a shattering scenario that will keep you feverishly reading until the final climactic pag
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    Titanicin kohtalonyö (tekijä: Walter Lord) (Fizzle42)
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    Walkabout Woman (tekijä: Michaela Roessner) (PghDragonMan)
    PghDragonMan: A little bit of a stretch to say similar themes for these two books, yet both deal with lucid non-waking experiences and how these may influence waking life.
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    Early Riser (tekijä: Jasper Fforde) (Othemts)
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Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 81) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
In this science fiction mystery, the main character, Joanna, is a scientist studying near death experiences. A colleague has found a way to manufacture them, and so she "goes under" to experience them for herself.

Despite it being 780 pages, Willis kept me interested and wanting to find out what happened enough to finish the book. I often abandon fiction - even short works - so this is saying something.

The book undoubtedly has flaws: It is too long, contains some profanity, portrays Christians very negatively, and there is one instance of a character's sudden shift in personality that really annoyed me.

But overall, I really liked it! ( )
  RachelRachelRachel | Nov 21, 2023 |
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  freixas | Mar 31, 2023 |
Según diversos testigos, en una ECM parece haber varios elementos nucleares: experiencia extracorporal, sonido, un túnel de altas paredes, una luz al final del túnel, parientes fallecidos y un ángel de luz con resplandecientes túnicas blancas, una sensación de paz y amor, una revisión de la vida, una revelación del conocimiento universal y la orden de regreso final. ¿Es todo esto algo real, o se trata tan sólo de manifestaciones surgidas de la bioquímica de un cerebro moribundo?
En Tránsito, Joanna Lander es un psicóloga que investiga las ECM. Su encuentro con el neurólogo Richard Wright ha de permitirle simular clínicamente ese tipo de experiencias con el uso de drogas psicoactivas. Pero los sujetos del experimento del doctor Wright ven cosas completamente distintas de lo esperado, y Joanna decide someterse al experimento para conocer directamente una ECM. Y las sorpresas empiezan…
  Natt90 | Mar 17, 2023 |
This book is fascinating, but also frustrating, and also heartbreaking.
It's fascinating for the idea that the author, Connie willis, had. A pair of scientists, studying near-death experience. using a drug that simulates death, but only lasts long enough for the volunteers to safely come out of it. Attaching electrodes to scan the brain during the time that they are "under".
Frustrating because of the endless traversing of The mazes of the hospital that is the setting for the book.
Heartbreaking, because at my age I have lost so many of my loved ones, and my mama died of a brain aneurysm, and only last year my older brother died of covid.

2002, Paperback, Bantam
P326-7:
" '... I work with Dr wright. He's a neurologist. We're trying to figure out what near-death experiences are and why the dying brain experiences them.'
'the dying brain?' kit said. 'Does that mean everyone has them? I thought they were something only a few people had.'
'no, about 60% of revived patients report having a near-death experience, and those are concentrated in certain kinds of deaths -- heart attacks, hemorrhaging, trauma.'
'You mean like car accidents?'
'yes, and stabbings, industrial accidents, shootings. Of course there's no way to tell how many people who aren't revived have them.' "

P.361:
" 'I sometimes think what a grand thing it will be to say to oneself, "death is over now; there is not that experience to be faced again." ' -- Charles dodgson. (Lewis Carroll), shortly before his death"

P.492:
" 'I told myself there was nothing to worry about,' he said. 'Modern medicine had made the ship unsinkable, and the lights were still on, the decks were still comparatively level. But inside...'
he stared ahead blindly for a moment and then went on. 'the perfect metaphor,' he said, 'looming up suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of your maiden voyage, unseen until it is nearly upon you, unavoidable even when you try to swerve, unexpected even though there have been warnings all along. Literature, literature is a warning,' he said, and then waveringly, ' "no, no, my dream was lengthened after life." Shakespeare wrote that, trying to warn us of what's coming. "I passed, methought, the melancholy flood, with that sour ferryman which poets write of, unto the kingdom of Perpetual night." ' he looked out over the library as if it were a classroom. 'Can anyone tell me what that means?'
above them, kit slammed her drawer shut, and Mr briarly said, as if the sound had been a question, 'nothing can save you, not youth or beauty or wealth, not intelligence or power or courage. You are all alone, in the middle of an ocean, with the lights going out.'
Above, Kit shut a door, pattered into the hall. She would be down any minute. There was no time to wait.
'Why did he see the Titanic when he was dying?' Joanna asked, and Mr briarley turned and looked at her in surprise.
'He didn't,' he said. 'He saw death.'
Death. 'And it looked like the titanic,' Joanna said.
'And it looked like the titanic.'

P.562:
"... And Vielle, stepping away from the examining table to explain Joanna's condition, saying, 'she's going to be fine.'
Not this. Not a dozen people in blood-spattered scrubs, blood-covered gloves, standing back from the table, stunned and silent, none of them saying anything, no sound at all except the flatline whine of the heart monitor.
Not the resident, handing the paddles back to a nurse and shaking his head, and Vielle, clinging to Joanna's limp white hand, saying, her voice rising sobbingly, 'no, she can't be! Hit her again!' Calm, professional Vielle sobbing, 'do something! Do something!'
The resident pulled his mask down. 'It's no use. We couldn't save her.'
couldn't save her, Richard thought, and finally, finally looking at joanna. She lay with her hair fanned out around her head, like Amelia tanaka's, but her brown hair was matted with blood, and there was blood on her mouth, on her neck, on her chest, blood everywhere. It stood out black-red against her white skin.
An airway had been inserted in her mouth, and there was blood on that, too. her eyes were open, staring at nothing.
'I brought Dr wright,' Nina said inamely into the silence, and the resident turned to look at him, his face solemn.
'I am so sorry, Dr wright,' he said. 'I'm afraid she's gone.'
'gone,' Richard repeated stupidly. The resident was right. She was gone. The body lying there, with its white, white skin and its unseeing eyes, was empty, abandoned. Joanna had gone.
Gone. Through a tunnel and into the passage, where a golden light shown from under a door. And passengers milled around out on deck in their night clothes, wondering what had happened. And the mail room was already inches deep in water, the boiler rooms already full, and water was coming in on D deck, the Decks beginning to list, beginning to slant. 'If the boat sinks,' Joanna had said, unseeing behind her sleep mask, reaching blindly for his hand, 'promise you'll come and get me.' "

P.614-5:
"It almost worked. Except that joanna, dying, had called out to him for help: 'SOS. SOS.' 'No thanks,' He said and handed her back the book.
And now she would say, 'you owe it to Joanna to continue your research. It's what she would have wanted.'
But she didn't. She said, 'okay,' and put the book in her bag and then walked over to his desk and wrote on a pad. 'Here's my phone number if you decide you need it.'
She walked to the door, opened it, and then turned around. 'I don't know who else to tell this to,' she said. 'Joanna save my life. My uncle.. living with someone..,' she stopped and tried again. 'I was going under, and she got me to go out, she convinced me to use Eldercare, she invited me to Dish night. She told me,' she took a ragged breath, 'she wished she could die saving somebody's life. And she did. She saved mine.' "

P.744:
"Too far, and the way's blocked. Half of the synapses have already shut down from lack of oxygen, half the pathways are locked or have 'closed for repair' signs on them. So the temporal lobe tries one route after another, one chemical after another, carnosine, npk, amiglycine, trying to find a shortcut, trying to get the signal through to the motor cortex to start the heart, the lungs. 'It was really late,' Amelia had said. 'All I wanted was to find the right chemical and go home,' and Mrs Brandeis's angel had said, 'you must return to earth. It is not yet your time.'
'the command to return is in over 60% of them,' Joanna had said, but it wasn't a command. It was a message that had finally gotten through, a chemical that had finally connected, a synapse that had finally fired, like a key turning over in the ignition. The NDE's a survival mechanism, richard thought. The body's version of a crash team."

Connie Willis is one of my very favorite authors. I loved the Doomsday books. She makes a fascinating use of the movie and the real event of the Titanic to illustrate the characters going through near-death experiences.

( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
needed a heavy edit -- interesting idea re NDEs, but poorly executed ( )
  travelgirl-fics | Mar 6, 2022 |
Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 81) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
Connie Willis’ “Passage” is a suspense novel in the same way that Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” is a slasher movie; it defies the genre while still delivering its thrills. I’m tempted to dub “Passage” a neurological detective story with metaphysical leanings, but even that description goes too far in nailing down this mercurial work. I’m sure, though, that it’s one of the smartest books I’ve read in years; its construction is a marvel of ingenuity and — what’s even more remarkable, given the wizardry of Willis’ storytelling — its intellectual honesty is impeccable.

“Passage” begins on a typically frazzled workday for Joanna Lander, a research psychologist who works at a large, rambling city hospital and who has for two years been collecting the oral accounts of people who have “coded” — become clinically dead — and then returned to life: near-death experiences. Richard Wright, a new neurologist at the institution, asks her to team up with him in his studies of a drug that can simulate an NDE. Richard uses a new technology called a “RIPT scan” that “simultaneously photographs the electrochemical activity in different subsections of the brain for a 3-D picture of neural activity in the working brain. Or the dying brain.” He can manage the technological aspects of the research, but he needs her to help him map the images in the RIPT scans to the distinctive sensations reported by people undergoing NDEs. . . .
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Fiction. Literature. Thriller. HTML:One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless suspense and cutting-edge science unlike anything you've ever read before.

It is the electrifying story of a psychologist who has devoted her life to tracking death. But when she volunteers for a research project that simulates the near-death experience, she will either solve life's greatest mystery ?? or fall victim to its greatest terror.

At Mercy General Hospital, Dr. Joanna Lander will soon be paged ?? not to save a life, but to interview a patient just back from the dead. A psychologist specializing in near-death experiences, Joanna has spent two years recording the experiences of those who have been declared clinically dead and lived to tell about it.

It's research on the fringes of ordinary science, but Joanna is about to get a boost from an unexpected quarter. A new doctor has arrived at Mercy General, one with the power to give Joanna the chance to get as close to death as anyone can.

A brilliant young neurologist, Dr. Richard Wright has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience using a psychoactive drug. Dr. Wright is convinced that the NDE is a survival mechanism and that if only doctors understood how it worked, they could someday delay the dying process, or maybe even reverse it. He can use the expertise of a psychologist of Joanna Lander's standing to lend credibility to his study.

But he soon needs Joanna for more than just her reputation. When his key volunteer suddenly drops out of the study, Joanna finds herself offering to become Richard's next subject. After all, who better than she, a trained psychologist, to document the experience?

Her first NDE is as fascinating as she imagined it would be ?? so astounding that she knows she must go back, if only to find out why this place is so hauntingly familiar. But each time Joanna goes under, her sense of dread begins to grow, because part of her already knows why the experience is so familiar, and why she has every reason to be afraid....

And just when you think you know where she is going, Willis throws in the biggest surprise of all ?? a shattering scenario that will keep you feverishly reading until the final climactic pag

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