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I'm going to recommend David Zindell's Neverness. It has a sense of adventure & wonder that keeps me returning to it. Beautiful descriptions of nature & wild, subspatial mathematics. (Zindell makes solving equations sound so exciting). It juxtaposes a high tech society with its nanotechnology & its light ships with the quest for the meaning of life among arctic dwelling neanderthals. A ripping yarn with a lot of depth to it.
The protagonist, Mallory Ringess, is a refreshingly ambivalent character - in one sense he is the old hero-messiah (cf Paul Atreides) clichأ© but in another he is an arrogant man whose ambition causes a considerable amount of mayhem.
Zindell followed the book with a trilogy: A requiem for Homo sapiens, which also has some wondrous moments but to my mind is drawn out too long.
It's wordy & there is no shortage of philosophising but this sits comfortably within the flow of the novel.
& anyone who likes William Blake is all right by me!
Best wishes!
Hedgekettle
I'm going to recommend David Zindell's Neverness. It has a sense of adventure & wonder that keeps me returning to it. Beautiful descriptions of nature & wild, subspatial mathematics. (Zindell makes solving equations sound so exciting). It juxtaposes a high tech society with its nanotechnology & its light ships with the quest for the meaning of life among arctic dwelling neanderthals. A ripping yarn with a lot of depth to it.
The protagonist, Mallory Ringess, is a refreshingly ambivalent character - in one sense he is the old hero-messiah (cf Paul Atreides) clichأ© but in another he is an arrogant man whose ambition causes a considerable amount of mayhem.
Zindell followed the book with a trilogy: A requiem for Homo sapiens, which also has some wondrous moments but to my mind is drawn out too long.
It's wordy & there is no shortage of philosophising but this sits comfortably within the flow of the novel.
& anyone who likes William Blake is all right by me!
Best wishes!
Hedgekettle
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