I know! The problem is how to convince multiple people to write and publish a 10 volume epic every year...peter wrote:At the rate you read Av, you need 'em!
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As you can see, it's a very spiritual book. And did I mention that it's profoundly relevant?Out of the winds of Time comes a Voice of destiny. Will one dream transform the destiny and make of it another destiny? Will the words of one life or the actions of another life change the road, make of it another road directed toward another destiny? Are there many roads, or are there only many roads converging into one road of immutable destiny?
Of a Voice that is humanity's voice, of a God that is humanity's god, of events that seem to return to the pools of blood and the shadows of fire from which humanity birthed itself: the pool is deep, the shadows are old, the fire burns with flames that burn forever.
O humanity, will you ever change? O humanity born in a storm and wandering in a storm, why do you turn from your future and return to your past? O lost and disbelieving, you wander in your search for belief, and you dream there is only one sun, one road, one destiny.
Shall we pluck out our eyes so that we will not see what comes? For these things that come, they come with cause.
It is? Hunh. I didn't twig to that, either. It did creep me out that it was set in Colorado and the sand-spelunking was happening in Denver, which is where I was sitting while reading the book.deer of the dawn wrote:Oh, I also read Sand by Hugh Howey. It's so different from Wool that I didn't even realize they are supposed to be in the same postapocalyptic world.
No kidding, huh? Don't forget he invented Yoda-speek with the Pleiades dialect in this book. Very awesome Delaney is. You more must read.deer of the dawn wrote:Nova is awesome, and everyone on KW should read it, and there should be a whole forum about it.
Samuel R Delaney is a writer's writer. Poetic, evocative, concise, often dense, requiring active thinking. Treats it like the high art that it is. Plenty of quotations can be found via google. You could do worse than making time for Delaney.aliantha wrote:I don't think I've read any Delany. I should put it on my TBR list, huh?