[extropy-chat] Light, By M. John Harrison

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Sun Nov 14 11:46:25 UTC 2004


The author of "The Centauri Device" has crafted an ambitious,
accomplished space opera split into three strands of plot whose
connections become apparent only late in the game. In modern-day
England, physicist Michael Kearney searches for the key to quantum
computing while maintaining an intermittent career as a serial killer.
Four hundred years hence, Seria Mau Genlicher pilots her ship, the
White Cat, through intergalactic space, depending on the quantum
Kearney-Tate drive to navigate between the stars unhindered by the
effects of relativity. At the same time, a "twink" named Ed Chianese
finds his addictive virtual-reality dreams rudely interrupted and all
his considerable debts suddenly due.
The final chapters of "Light" are a marvel of transcendence,
reconciliation and redemption. This is surely one of the best novels
of the year, irrespective of genre.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/14/RVGPN9LSDK1.DTL



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