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The Healing of Harms
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HARM
HARM

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Paul Fadhil Abbas Ali, a British citizen and Muslim, innocently captures the attention of the Hostile Activities Research Ministry (HARM) by publishing a volume of silliness that includes a threat to the Prime Minister. His civil rights notwithstanding, he is brutally interrogated by men who have no higher priority than finding out who his theoretical co-conspirators are. The unending ordeal triggers in Paul's mind a tendency towards dissociative personality. Locked in solitary confinement, he imagines himself living on a far-off planet Stygia where an austere authoritarian government practices genocide against the "doglovers", people who are actually the pets of a race of intelligent "dogs". The novel flips back and forth between Britain and Stygia, as Paul's tormentors continue their brutal questioning over the course of days and even weeks. Will Paul's innocence ever be proven? Will he survive his ordeal with his mind intact? Or will he spend the rest of his days fighting battles in a fantasy world of his own imagination?

It's easy enough to see why Aldiss wrote this novel; recent world events have made us all very aware of the dangers of a government that sets security above the rights of individuals, and Aldiss (never one to shy away from a political statement) wanted to address that. Yet heavy-handed as the Earth-side story is, most of the pages focus on the sci-fi/fantasy sub-story, which is more imaginative, has better characters, and shows more plot movement. In a more fully realized novel, the episodes on Stygia would have been better integrated, serving to inform the story that is taking place in the real world, and vice versa. As it stands, it's easy to forget about HARM altogether, and like Paul, get completely lost in the fantasy. Unfortunately, neither story is especially compelling on its own, and due to the lack of connection between the two, the whole is less than the sum of its parts.

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