Аннотация
Philip Jose Farmer
Night of Light
A WORLD GONE BERSERK
Every seven years, the placid planet of Dante’s Joy becomes a waking nightmare of death, deformity, and madness. To escape, the populace has the choice of Sleeping—lying drugged in their tomblike houses—or taking the Chance—staying awake and going abroad while their world goes berserk. They become what their innermost longings dictate, whether it be a beast locked in the vilest bowels of depravity, or a supreme being raised to the flowering serenity of truth and tight. Thousands are mutilated, killed, transformed into monstrous things. John Carmody, a conscienceless exile from Earth, arrogantly chooses to take the Chance Reeling, shrieking his fear and despair, Carmody confronts the Night of Light, the unknown and unknowable...
PART ONE
On earth it would be a fearful thing to see a man chasing down the street after the skin from a human face, a thin layer of tissue blown about like a piece of paper ...
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