MAN WITH SIX SENSES

A companion to The Question Mark code 92890, and in the British Library Science Fiction Classics series, with an introduction by Mike Ashley, Muriel Jaeger (1892-1969) was a prolific writer of history books, essays and science fiction and among the first women to receive degrees at Somerville College, Oxford. She later became associated with Leonard and Virginia Woolf who published her first science fiction novels. Extra-sensory perception is a unique gift of nature, or is it an affliction? To Hilda, Michael Bristowe's power to receive forces beyond the limits of the five basic senses offers the promise of some brighter future for humanity, and yet for the bearer himself, dizzied by the threat of sensory bombardment and social exile, the picture is not so clear. First published in 1927, the novel was Muriel Jaeger's second pioneering foray into science fiction, and a thought provoking portrait of the struggle for human connection and relationships tested and transformed under the pressures of supernatural influence. 219pp, paperback.