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“Distant Space” (title translated by AI)

Yaroslav Melnyk (Ярослав Мельник, born 1959)

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In the distant future people have been deprived of sight by a special treatment of the brain. Everyone finds their way by hearing and believes that only what can be heard is real, so ideas such as freedom and beauty have fallen out of use. Habr has a rare "illness": he starts to see a distant space that the doctors call a hallucination. He is prescribed medicine and seals on his eyes until he recovers, and his girlfriend Lioz is comforted that he is being treated. He talks old books over with Professor Mokr, who suspects people once used their sight. Then a group of rebels led by Oks Niurp frees Habr from hospital, hoping to use one of the few sighted people against the authorities.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Speculative, Politics (assigned by AI)
First published
2008 by Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla
Author's age
49 when first published
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