K-PAX

1995 Brewer, Gene (b. 1937). K-PAX. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Rpt. New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2001. U.K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 1995. DLC, MoS, PSt

Anarchist eutopia briefly described by a man who says he is from the planet K-PAX. Sequels are On a Beam of Light. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001; K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot. London: Bloomsbury, 2002; K-PAX IV: A Visitor From The Constellation Lyra. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation, 2007, in which another visitor arrives from K-PAX, a female who looks like a gorilla who threatens to take 100,000 humans back to K-PAX with her; and K-PAX V: The Coming of the Bullocks.  Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation, 2014, in which another people from a different planet arrives and threatens to eliminate humanity if it doesn’t clean up its act. K-PAX Redux: A Play, Screenplay, and a Report. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation, 2007 includes K-PAX: A Stage Play (9-197) adapted from the Novel K-PAX that was first performed as a reading at the Genesius Theater in New York in 2002 and on stage in London by Act Provocateur Intl. February 11-March 7, 2004. The screenplay is K-PAX II: The Return of Prot. A Screenplay Based on the Novel K-PAX II: On a Beam of Light (2000) and the film adaptation of K-PAX (Universal Pictures, 2001) (109-286). Report to K-PAX by prot (with a foreword by Gene Brewer (289-320) was first published in K-PAX: The Trilogy. London: Bloomsbury, 2003. Much of all the novels is taken up with the interactions between the supposed alien, who is held in the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute and his psychiatrist and between the alien and other patients. The question of whether or not he is an alien is never entirely settled. A 2001 film of the first novel was made directed by Iain Softly (b. 1956) with a screenplay by Brewer and Charles Leavitt.