Although the novel's ending may strike some readers as a little too metaphysically busy, few can deny its relentless, almost hypnotic force.

We've both been the victims of some strange hypnotic force and for the moment I've managed to throw it off.

With his last ounce of strength his mind rebelled against the despotic hypnotic forces.

He levelled his ship out again when enormous hypnotic forces reached once more for his will.

The Allus' weapon of hypnotic force missed fire against us for a very fundamental reason.

That dark haze was a curtain of hypnotic force across the opening.

No mere glass this, but genuine rock crystal, so clear that it drew eyes with a hypnotic force.

To Perry, they held a hypnotic force.

No possible hypnotic force can overcome my definitely and positively opposed will.

His voice, like his gaze, had a hypnotic force.