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I'm just coming to the end of Neverness by David Zindell... I've read it before, and loved it, but I'd forgotten just how much. And I'm so looking forward to the follow-up trilogy, "A Requiem For Homo Sapiens" (The Broken God, The Wild, and War In Heaven) because I remember those (especially The Broken God) being even better.
Has anyone else read these? I think they'd appeal to a fairly broad spectrum of Barbeloids... first off, it's a wonderful story. Second, it's got a brilliant "doomed romanticism" about it, and a kind of cynical naivete (if such a thing can exist). Third, conceptually, it gets down to the beauty of pure maths. Fourth, it manages (through the four volumes) to cover a wide range of spiritual approaches to the universe.
I'm getting bored of lists now. It also (in no particular order) is incredibly epic, does "Dune"-scale galactic politics without breaking a sweat, addresses the question of an AI's motivation from several angles, AND... has nob jokes. (Oh, and unless my interpretation's way off the mark, manages to diss Scientologists pretty heavily.)
I seem to remember "Broken God" reducing me to tears at least once.
I highly recommend them. And if anyone's read them and wants to discuss the fuckers, then this is the place.
(BTW- Anyone read his current fantasy trilogy? I got about half way through the first one... it was enjoyable enough, but I kind of felt all the things I liked about it had been done better in the skiffy ones... I'll give it another go once I've re-read these, of course.) |
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