Having finished Olympos earlier this week, my mind was all in awhirl. That has got to be one of the most fast paced and downright exciting books I have ever read!!
I loved the thought that human genius can create entire new universes. And, not having gone beyond high school physics -- can someone confirm (or deny) for me if this is indeed possible under some of the current thinking about parallell universes and quantum mechanics? It is my current impression that it is indeed possible, but would like a further explanation in laymen's terms.
Besides Ada (I have always loved spunky, intelligent female characters) one of my favorite human characters ended up being Daeman. He turned from a butterfly boy (quite literally and in more than one way) to a true hero, someone you could trust with your life. Harman was a delight, but he had already begun to grow up when the story began, and did not change and grow as much as Daeman did.
The love story of Ada and Harman was lovely. The reinvention of marriage and of fatherhood and families.
I am really into family history, and I come down from a family named Harman who lived in Virginia since before the American Revolution. The name Harman comes from the ancient German name Herrmann. That name, in its oldest form, means "divine humanity" or "brotherhood of man" and later came to mean "guardian of the people" in Tuetonic (or at least it does in the family history books I have read. ) What more appropriate name could this character have possibly had?
And, of course, I love Mahnmut and Orphu of Io. The moravecs were absolutely cool!
And those post-humans and their morphing into gods/goddesses. I suppose you can leave your messy physical humanity behind, but you cannot leave behind such messy psychological drives such as hunger for power.
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Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell <i></i>
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