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Light

By M.John Harrison

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| Paperback | 9780575074033

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On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange symbols, and a human skeleton. What they are and what they mean are the mysteries explored anContinue

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Harrison dazzles again

Again Harrison's ability to define otherwise oblique and to the ordinary mortal only vaguely anticipated or felt metaphysical realities, and to accord them fitting, far-reaching descriptions which stay this side of the concrete, is remarkable.
Added to a delicately and precisely laid out seri ... (continue)

Again Harrison's ability to define otherwise oblique and to the ordinary mortal only vaguely anticipated or felt metaphysical realities, and to accord them fitting, far-reaching descriptions which stay this side of the concrete, is remarkable.
Added to a delicately and precisely laid out series of dissections of human foibles (whose embodying characters sometimes though appear to be mere ciphers or vectors) are intimations of the outgrowths in mind and body we might expect as humankind expands into the realms of space and high-energy physics. Another one for you fellow transhumanists out there.

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