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	Coma (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In astronomy, a coma is part of the tail of a comet, produced by vapor boiled off the comet as it nears the sun.
		In astronomy, sometimes "Coma" is shorthand for the constellation Coma Berenices.
		In optics, a coma is an optical aberration in an astronomical telescope which causes a V-shaped flare to the image of a star.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coma_(disambiguation) (205 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Coma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The difference between coma and stupor is that a patient with coma cannot give a suitable response to either noxious or verbal stimuli, whereas a patient in a stupor can give a crude response, such as screaming, to an unpleasant stimulus.
		Coma is also to be distinguished from the persistent vegetative state which may follow it.
		The Glasgow Coma Scale is used to quantify the severity of a coma.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Coma (1102 words)

	Fiction in Brief - New York Times
		The heroine of ''Coma'' (1977), after discovering that patients are being killed to provide body parts for wealthy clients, spends the rest of the novel trying to convince disbelieving hospital and police officials of her findings while she is pursued by the villains.
		He then learns that his daughter's lingering fever is, in fact, a symptom of a particularly virulent strain of myeloblastic leukemia, and that the child's illness, as well as that of a neighbor's child, is linked to the presence of benzene in the river that runs by his home.
		Not as tightly written as ''Coma,'' ''Fever'' is nonetheless gripping, despite its extravagance of plot and its pallid characterization.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEEDC153BF934A35750C0A964948260 (611 words)

	Alibris: Coma
		Welsh's novel is a literal head trip of a book that brings us into the wildly active, albeit coma-beset, mind of Roy Strang, whose hallucinatory quest to eradicate the evil predator/scavenger marabou stork is routinely interrupted by grisly memories of the social and family dysfunction that brought him to this state.
		Advances in the knowledge and understanding of stupor and coma, aided by the considerable impact of CT scanning on neurological diagnosis, are reflected in the new and substantially revised edition of a classic volume.
		The year is 1999, and Rosemary has awakened from a 27-year coma to a world governed by Andy, the child borne of her unholy union with The Devil in Levin's classic tale of horror, "Rosemary's Baby".
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Coma (1244 words)

	Review \| The Coma by Alex Garland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		I think you can reach a point when you're not as good as your last novel, you may have written one or even two bad books in a row, and the publishers will hang onto you.
		Alex Garland's third novel is 200 pages, but this has been achieved only because the book has been split into three parts, with woodblock illustrations by noted cartoonist Nicholas Garland (Alex's dad).
		The Coma is also filled with hideous and often absurd adjective combos, as if Garland has tried to transpose a Street Fighter power move onto the printed page.
	www.janmag.com /fiction/thecoma.html (711 words)

	Alex Garland The Coma Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		The plot is nearly as thin as the novel.
		Chapters in 'The Coma' are one or two pages, and each chapter is accompanied by one of Garland senior's woodcuts.
		Plus, if you're writing an entire novel about someone who is very likely to be in a coma, it helps to prevent your reader from plunging into a coma.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2004/garland-the_coma.htm (1019 words)

	"The Coma" by Alex Garland - Salon
		The premise of Alex Garland's new novel, "The Coma," is remarkably straightforward: Coming home late from the office one night, Carl intervenes when a group of teenage boys attempt to assault the subway's lone other passenger, a young woman, and they beat him severely enough to put him into a coma.
		Whereas that book intricately wove together several individual stories, "The Coma" is essentially a story composed of a single arc, and this formal tic may, for some, be its big weakness.
		Reading about a man in a coma has the potential to be just about as interesting as listening to a friend breathlessly tell you about last night's dream ("So, we were at your house, right, only it wasn't your house"), but Garland avoids that trap.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2004/07/07/coma/index.html (853 words)

	mjohnharrison.com - the official m john harrison website
		Liz Jensen's coma novel The Nine Lives of Louis Drax, for instance, published almost simultaneously with The Coma and already outed as the next Hollywood project of Anthony Minghella, is an engaging neoGothic romp written in the blustering language of a schoolboy who seems less a victim of the dream than its optimum denizen.
		By comparison, Garland's is a novel of ideas, focused, emotionally chaste, and produced for the most part in a tone spare to the point of anality.
		Proscription is everywhere in The Coma, in its careful sentence structures, its strictured point of view, the sense you have of not just a central character but an author in a support collar, the result not so much of whiplash as a conscious act of self-repression.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/green/kcd86/archive/coma.htm (1405 words)

	Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
		Girlfriend in a Coma is primarily the story of Karen McNeil (the girlfriend mentioned in the title) and Richard Doorland (the boyfriend of the girlfriend mentioned in the title), two high school seniors living in late-seventies Vancouver.
		To complicate things, shortly after Karen enters her coma she is discovered to be pregnant, and almost exactly nine months after falling into her unbroken sleep, she gives birth to a daughter, whom Richard names Megan.
		As displayed in his earlier novels, Coupland has his own style and way of looking at things, and as far as communicating a valid point goes, I would have to say this is his most effective book to date.
	www.unb.ca /web/bruns/9900/issue12/entertainment/book1.html (573 words)

	The Globe and Mail: Series
		Douglas Coupland's novel treats coma as a metaphor for the way we sleepwalk through a cultural trashpile, but it also presents its Gen-X characters with the opportunity to begin anew.
		Coupland's novel is, in part, the literary equivalent -- gloomy, sexy, of the moment and, ultimately, wide-eyed and goofily optimistic about life and youth.
		The elements that catapult the story -- ghosts, alfresco sex and a coma -- are the sorts of fantastically sexy events that might be celebrated in a a song by any number of gloomy goth-rock bands.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /series/genx/rev_girlfriend.html (1094 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Coma at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Although this novel was conceived as an entertainment, it is not science fiction.
		Susan Wheeler identifies with the patient in a coma, Nancy Greenly.
		Susan finds out that the complication of prolonged coma after anesthesia is about one hundred times more prevalent at Boston Memorial than for the rest of the country in the past year.
	www.epinions.com /content_73273478788 (1014 words)

	Mortal Fear (1994) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Robin Cook's first novel, "Coma," was an unpretentious thriller that was made into a movie that was an unpretentious thriller.
		In the novel, when the heroine is kibbitzing around with the computers and digging up information she has fantasies about discovering a brand-new illness which will be called, naturally, "Wheeler's disease," after her.
		One of her colleagues who is doing research in molecular biology, a constant smoker, which is always a bad sign in a character, played by what's his name Bell, which is even a WORSE sign because he's never played anything other than a raving lunatic, says he needs to talk to her.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0111005 (699 words)

	DVD.net : Coma - DVD Review
		Coma is set in the Boston Memorial Hospital, and stars Genevieve Bujold as Dr Susan Wheeler.
		When her best friend goes into a coma during a straightforward operation, she finally cracks under the stress and pressure that has been building in both her personal and professional life.
		Coma is successful as a film mainly due to the cast, the direction from Michael Crichton (also responsible for the screenplay), and the pacing.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=2277 (1042 words)

	Amazon.com: The Coma: Books: Garland Alex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In the latest novel by the bestselling author of the Generation X thriller The Beach, a young man who fell into a coma after being assaulted on the London Underground tries to piece his life back together.
		In his earlier novel, though, the fever dreams added moments of intrigue to what was basically a straightforward narrative.
		In "The Coma", the fever dream is the raison d'etre of the book, and there's really not much of substance either before it begins or after it ends.
	www.amazon.com /gp/product/1573222739 (2222 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Girlfriend in a Coma: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Karen waking from the coma is very moving, and her first reactions to meeting everyone again are interesting, but the apocalyptic section moves the book more to the realm of sci fi thriller.
		This late 90's novel may well be his best work to date (though personally it is a close call between this and his 2003 novel Hey Nostradamus).
		Girlfirned in a Coma is an accssible, engrossing and easy read, the characters are great and the story is an excellent snap shot of the culture of it's time.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006551270 (1596 words)

	Robin Cook
		Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word "medical" to the thriller genre, and twenty years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created.
		In each of his novels, Robin Cook strives to write about the issues at the forefront of current medical practice.
		Coma was made into a successful feature film, and Cook's novels have also been made into television productions.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/packages/us/robincook/bio.htm (291 words)

	Jason Pettus \| essays \| douglas coupland's "girlfriend in a coma"
		Which is what makes this review of his latest novel, the atmospheric and eerily-supernatural Girlfriend in a Coma, such an uncomfortable process for me, in that I find myself in a position whereby, for the first time in my life, I am going to find it necessary to give critical comments of Mr.
		The novel opens with the words of Jared, a dead high-schooler and former friend of all the still-alive characters to come later.
		The beginning of the second half sees Karen come out of her coma as mysteriously and painlessly as she entered it, and this is the point where the story starts veering wildly from the typical Coupland novel.
	www.jasonpettus.com /essays/coma.htm (2666 words)

	Amazon.ca: Maybe a Miracle: a Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Strause juxtaposes the caustic and the poignant in his first novel, a pitch-perfect teenage take on human failings and superhuman spectacle in central Ohio.
		Monroe's workaholic father and loutish older brother also reveal their fragilities in the crucible of Annika's prolonged coma, an estranging rather than unifying force.
		However, Annika falls into a coma and develops the symptoms of the stigmata.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1400064643 (416 words)

	Sacramento News and Review June 24, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This is the mind-bending plot of Alex Garland’s third novel, The Coma.
		Later on, after he tries simply to shout himself out of his coma, Carl realizes that discovering his identity is a necessity.
		Even though we know Carl is in his coma, each scene begins with a frisson of excitement because it’s never clear whether he has woken up or not.
	www.newsreview.com /sacramento/Content?oid=oid:29789 (775 words)

	Herzog (Penguin Classics): Saul BellowPenguin Classics Irish & Celtic Books at An Irish Christmas.com
		A novel complex, compelling, absurd and realistic, Herzog became a classic almost as soon as it was published in 1964.
		In it Saul Bellow tells the tale of Moses E. Herzog, a tragically confused intellectual who suffers from the breakup of his second marriage, the general failure of his life and the specter of growing up Jewish in the middle part of the 20th century.
		I have to say saul bellow writes in a manner that is appealing to me, because he aptly dives into philosophy and sociological issues without a frenzied style like some other heavyweights in literature.
	www.anirishchristmas.com /0142437298/Herzog_Penguin_Classics.htm (676 words)

	Las Vegas Mercury: Books: The Coma by Alex Garland
		I'm not sure how they'll approach his third novel, The Coma; it's short, and slick, and even has pictures...if only it didn't deal with pesky philosophical quandaries like what exactly goes on inside those brainpans of ours.
		Garland liked the coma idea so well that he used it as the basis for this novel, and the conceit has a lot of appeal.
		The great novels he remembers have been rendered meaningless, simply opening sentences like "Call me Ishmael" or "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" repeated for hundreds of pages.
	www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-Aug-26-Thu-2004/24607003.html (631 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Trying to Define Yourself While Unsure of Reality - New York Times
		In that movie a man wakes from a coma to discover that London is a city transformed, that it has become a ghost town besieged by crazed, rage-infected zombies.
		With the exception of the brutal set piece that opens the story and sends the narrator Carl into his coma, this novel is a considerable departure from Mr.
		The novel is beautifully illustrated with wood block prints by the author's father, Nicholas Garland (the political cartoonist for The Daily Telegraph in London), and its pared-down, minimalist narrative has been structured like a comic strip, with one strobe-lighted tableau jump-cutting to the next.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E3DB1438F93AA15755C0A9629C8B63 (722 words)

	SPACE.com -- Green Comet Machholz -- Friend, Not Foe
		With a diameter of at least 450,000 kilometers, the coma of this comet is at least three times wider than the planet Jupiter.
		The comet glows green because its coma contains cyanogen and diatomic carbon, both of which glow green when illuminated by sunlight.
		You'll need to read the novel to see what it contained, but here's a hint; the paths of the bodies in our solar system are ellipsoidal.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/technology/technovel_green_050117.html (508 words)

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		Follow the exploits as young Catherine sets about sabotaging her parents efforts to marry her off to a man she despises.
		The novel follows the journey of a young Jewish girl and her family as they attempt to flee Russia.
		This novel takes you into the mind of a fully immobile paraplegic.
	www.aps.edu /aps/truman/librarymoppertlists.html (390 words)

	Coma DVD at Video Universe
		Something eerie is going on at Boston Memorial--patients with minor problems are slipping into irreversible comas, and a doctor is targeted when she suspects her colleagues of foul play.
		Based on the best-selling novel by Robin Cook, COMA is a taught paranoid thriller and a dramatically apt metaphor for the corruption and fraud in the modern American health-care industry.
		With its suspensful plot, dramatic editing, and conspiratorial terror, COMA is a precursor to many paranoid dramas such as THE FIRM and THE PELICAN BRIEF, establishing a defined style that may yet become a genre unto itself.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/1263834/a/Coma.htm (389 words)

	He likes paranoia. Confusion. Alex Garland seeks out a half-dreaming reality in his novels.
		His first novel in five years, "The Coma" is 190 pages, an unsettling but extremely quick read, illustrated with evocative woodcuts by the author's father, Nicholas Garland, a political cartoonist for the London Daily Telegraph.
		Garland's second novel, "The Tesseract" (1999), was set in the Philippines and resembled "The Beach" in its Conrad-flavored tale of Westerners adrift in exotic locales.
		These are strange and violent worlds for an author to visit; not surprisingly, Garland says he tends to remember his dreams and to use them in his work.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/01/DDGMC7E2SP1.DTL (1189 words)

	In a Land of Plenty by Tim Pears Detailed Book Review
		The novel is based on the Freeman family and follows their history from the marriage of Charles and Mary and the lives of their children.
		The novel starts with their son James in a coma and as a result you know already that the end of the novel won't be happy.
		The novel is a social commentary of life in small town Britain but is a little long-winded and not necessarily all relevant.
	www.allreaders.com /topics/Info_9414.asp (272 words)

	about michael crichton, book author, screenwriter, famous writers
		His first novel under his own name was The Andromeda Strain, which was published in his last year of medical school.
		Crichtons novels have been translated into twenty-four languages.
		In addition to his novels, he has also written four books of nonfiction, including Five Patients, Jasper Johns, and his autobiography, Travels.
	www.celebsa-z.com /bios/michael_crichton.htm (364 words)

	Authors, A-Z > G > Garland, Alex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In the tradition of grand adventure novels, Richard, a rootless traveller rambling around Thailand on his way somewhere else, is given a hand-drawn map by a madman who calls himself Daffy Duck.
		On the surface it's a fast-paced adventure novel; at another level it explores why we search for these utopias, be they mysterious lost continents or small island communes.
		Garland is the author of the novels "The Beach" and "The Tesseract" and also wrote the screenplay for the zombie horror film "28 Days Later." His fiction is something to be anticipated and thus far it has not disappointed, though it is never what is expected.
	www.wenbook.co.uk /nBooks/577696_1.html (2976 words)

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