K-Pax

Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges are gracing cinema screens at the moment in the Hollywood success K-Pax. But many wont be aware that the film is actually an adaptation of a novel by Gene Brewer.

Insanity and aliens, two staple themes of modern science fiction, form the heart of Brewers story. The plot of K-Pax centres around meetings between Prot—an enigmatic patient undergoing psychiatric treatment at the Manhattan Institute of Psychiatry—who …