Reincarnations
Jun. 3rd, 2006 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adelaideseanWhat would happen if reincarnation was real and didn't only go forwards? What do Feynman's time-travelling electron and the velocity of money have in common? One possible answer to both questions is in "The End of the World Begins at Home", which has been reprinted on-line in the e-anthology Journeys of the Mind, compiled by Sonny Whitelaw and published by Double Dragon. It's an odd piece for me, tapping into millennial fears and my half-hearted study of Economics almost twenty years ago. It was first published in Borderlands and I've always had a soft spot for it. I hope it'll be happy in its new home .
(And while on the subject of reprints, this time in translation, I'm pleased to report that The Resurrected Man and the Orphans trilogy have been picked up by Editions Bragelonne in France. This is great because I can actually read French. C'est fantastique!)
(And while on the subject of reprints, this time in translation, I'm pleased to report that The Resurrected Man and the Orphans trilogy have been picked up by Editions Bragelonne in France. This is great because I can actually read French. C'est fantastique!)
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Date: 2006-06-26 12:59 am (UTC)Anyway, someone at Fantasybookspot has reviewed Geodesica: Descent (http://www.fantasybookspot.com/node/1236).
I review for Fantasybookspot too, but I'm thinking of reviewing the Geodesica books for my site (http://www.xenoarchaeology.org).
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Date: 2006-06-30 11:58 pm (UTC)By "means" I mean not just financial means, but social and psychological as well. Poor word choice on my part there.
Hey, thanks for that. I'm sad the reviewer didn't connect with the characters (particularly when their emotional experiences are so intimately related to mine) but pleased the rest of the books hit home.
Hey, love your site, Steve. I wanted to be an archeologist as a kid, and still intend to go on a dig one day. The opening of Al Reynold's REVELATION SPACE could've been written just for me, combining big spaceships with an excavation on an alien planet. Perfect.
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Date: 2006-07-01 01:38 am (UTC)I know what you mean about spaceships and archaeology. Awesome.
The way I see it, we have more chance of coming across evidence of an vanished civilisation than an active one, because of
a) the lifespan of civilisations being slight compared to the age of the galaxy; and
b) the speed of light making interstellar communication asynchronous. Any message we receive is likely to be either a relic of an extinct civilisation, or an historical snapshot of an earlier stage in an existing civilisation