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| Author: | danlo60 [ Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Nick Gevers on "The Fire Sermons" (RforHS) |
**Lots of spoilers for those who haven't read past Neverness** SERMONS Beginning: In his vast (and vastly ambitious) A Requiem For Homo Sapiens Trilogy, David Zindell joins many other contemporary American SF writers in rejecting the virtual and reasserting the natural. This theme--perhaps a renewed humanist reaction against cyberpunk--seems again and again to find expression in immensely long, many-stranded epics: in his Mars Trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson proclaims his preference for physical frontiers over cybernetic ones; in the Hyperion Cantos, Dan Simmons rejects artificial intelligence and artificial immortality; in The Book of the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe declares that there is only one God, that digitized deities are merely demiurges. Zindell adds to this chorus a powerful, sustained, visionary voice, demonstrating over three long novels his thesis that we can only truly evolve in and through harmony with the basic cycles of Nature, only truly progress by embracing Reality to the exclusion of any virtual alternative. Unfortunately, even while this argument shapes and impassions Zindell's Trilogy, it generates, in its fervor, disruptive textual blemishes... ***** Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise. Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i>Edited by: danlo60 at: 8/24/05 11:02 pm </i> |
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