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Fiction. THE STARGAZER'S EMBASSY explores the frightening phenomenon of alien abduction from a different point of view. In this story, it is the aliens who seem fearful of Julia Glazer, the woman they are desperately trying to contact. Violent and despairing after the murder of the one person she loved, a psychiatrist who was studying abductees, Julia continues to rebuff the aliens until her relationships with others who have met "the things," as she calls them, including a tattoo artist, a strange man who can take photographs with the power of his mind, and an abductee locked up in a mental hospital, force Julia deeper into direct alien contact and a confrontation about what death means to humans and aliens alike.

"THE STARGAZER'S EMBASSY, by Eleanor Lerman, is a thrilling reversal of the alien abduction trope...An atypical take on a familiar concept, THE STARGAZER'S EMBASSY is executed flawlessly."—Foreword Reviews (starred review)

"Lerman's tense but thoughtful novel explores the mysteries of the psyche as much as those of outer space, and is fitting for any reader who enjoys deep and subtle stories."—Publishers Weekly starred review

"This novel has an inspiring premise and an even better plot. It's a hybrid between conventional novel and science fiction...Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing once said that science fiction had its second-tier reputation only because so few good writers had attempted the form. Eleanor Lerman, an award-winning poet, is such a first- tier writer."—New York Journal of Books

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The Stargazer's Embassy, by Eleanor Lerman, is a thrilling reversal of the alien abduction trope… An atypical take on a familiar concept, The Stargazer's Embassy is executed flawlessly. --Foreword Reviews (Starred Review)

.. Lerman's tense but thoughtful novel explores the mysteries of the psyche as much as those of outer space, and is fitting for any reader who enjoys deep and subtle stories. --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

I really liked this novel. It's wonderfully eerie, mysterious, captivating and thought-provoking. I got pulled into the story right away and thoroughly enjoyed the read. Highly recommended. --Toby Johnson - author of The Myth of the Great Secret: An Appreciation of Joseph Campbell

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Eleanor Lerman, who lives in New York, is the author of numerous award-winning collections of poetry, short stories, and novels. She is a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2016, her novel, Radiomen, was awarded the John W. Campbell Prize for the Best Book of Science Fiction. Eleanor Lerman's books include are STRANGE LIFE (2014), JANET PLANET (2011), THE BLONDE ON THE TRAIN (2009), and THE STARGAZER'S EMBASSY (2017), all published by Mayapple Press.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mayapple Press (July 1, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 310 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1936419734
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1936419739
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches

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Eleanor Lerman is a native New Yorker and unrepentant member of the Woodstock Nation. She has also been a guide in a Chinese museum, the manager of a harpsichord kit workshop, and a comedy writer. Connections between the humor of the human condition and the mysteries of infinity are the hallmark of her nearly forty-year-long writing career, for which she has received numerous awards including a National Book Award nomination, an NEA grant, the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Award from the Academy of American Poets and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of six collections of poetry, two collections of short stories and several novels--most recently, Satellite Street (The Permanent Press, 2019).

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 11, 2017

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I loved this novel almost as much as I loved Radiomen. Since other reviewers tell most of the story, I'll simply say that I liked the way the protagonist, Julia, changed. Lerman built a strong character who stayed true to herself throughout the story.

I'm not a syfi enthusiast but I do enjoy quality writing that easily flows so I was not disappointed!

The Kindle version has many formatting issues and omitted words but that didn't distract (after a couple chapters) from the strength of the story.

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RM

Kindle version is full of errors

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The publisher is doing a disservice to the author by leaving the Kindle version with so many errors. There are incorrect words, misspelled words, missing words and punctuation, and line breaks in the middle of sentences throughout the entire book. These errors are very distracting.

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Gary Tognetti

An absorbing tale about alien experiencer culture

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2017

In Eleanor Lerman’s novel The Stargazer’s Embassy, stories of alien abductions are true, but that isn’t quite the problem protagonist Julia Glazer is having. To her, they’ve been more of a nuisance than anything. Aliens hang around the periphery of her life, dressed in weird costumes and never quite trying to make contact. They seem wary of her, though weirdly protective. She tries to shoo them away like stray cats but they keep popping up, loitering around her house, her job, her social sphere.
Things get complicated when Julia becomes enmeshed in alien “experiencer” culture. She is romanced by a psychologist who is trying to examine the culture respectfully and seriously, but most of the experiencers – particularly the abduction victims – view her with distrust. Since Julia’s encounters are so unlike theirs, they assume she must be lying, or hiding something.
Ostensibly a work of science fiction, the thematic schema of The Stargazer’s Embassy hews closer to contemporary literary fiction than genre work. Julia is the sort of wistful, melancholy archetype that has become something of a cliché in literary novels, the sort of hero whose journey is more about taking stock of her life and working through her own failings and anxieties than, say, uncovering and thwarting the invaders’ plans. In genre fiction those priorities would be reversed, with the inner struggle supplementing a heroic problem-solving narrative rather than dominating it.
Regardless of where the novel’s priorities lie, it is the SFnal element of The Stargazer’s Embassy that distinguishes it from the literary pack, more so than its literariness distinguishes it from genre work. The dramatic core of the novel is Julia’s relationship with her late mother, Laura – who was connected to the alien visitors, and whose unsuccessful attempt to ingratiate them to Julia as a child seems to have been the impetus for their stalking of her as an adult. Julia has spent most of her adult life trying to avoid coming to terms with her difficult relationship with Laura. More than simply a projection of her internal conflicts, the presence of the uncanny in Julia’s life – and the casual acceptance of its existence in the novel’s framework – is what gives her experience, and her journey, a deeper meaning. Aliens and alien-ness do not function as a fanciful allegory or a quirky satirical angle; they are the reality of this novel, and Julia’s story cannot be told without them.
The cast of characters ring true to me, particularly in the conflicting prerogatives of the different experiencers and how they relate to Julia. The Stargazer’s Embassy itself (a bar owned by Julia’s stepfather) is a memorable setting, and so much more than the kitschy tourist trap it pretends to be. Like the novel that bears its name it is both ordinary and transcendent, and carves its own little niche in the world.

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The Stargazer's Embassy

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Well, I must say that was better than I thought it would be. Not that I thought I wouldn't like it, but the synopsis makes it sound a bit oddball. I'm good with reading strange stories but this wasn't strange at all. In fact, I would say aside from our protagonist having a long history of alien contact, this could almost read as plain fiction regarding alien abduction stories. And then there was the writing. It was descriptive and vivid. I really felt like I was watching, rather than reading, the story unfold.

This is the story of Julia, a seemingly quiet girl - keeps to herself, has no friends, works as a cleaner. What we soon learn is that Julia has been keeping a secret for most of her life. She and her mother have both been visited by aliens. The difference between them is that her mother actively sought out the aliens. She would walk out into the forest and fields in the middle of the night to meet with them. Julia, however fought against it, them and her mother for the rest or her life at least up to the end of the story. She wanted nothing to do with them but even though they kept coming around, she made it known to them that she hated them.

One day, even though she seems to actively avoid people, she meets a man named John. They take a liking to each other, start dating and eventually they move in together. She's known from the day they met that he was a psychiatrist but she later learns that he actively tries to help people who believe they have been abducted. It's only through this coincidence of meeting and then falling in love with John that she learns more than she ever thought she wanted to about the aliens, the abductees and eventually her late mother.

I would recommend this to anyone. It's not as much about science fiction/aliens as it is about a girl who has built walls around herself emotionally and mentally, and is only now starting to take them down.

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