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Title: Galactic Rapture by Tom Flynn ISBN: 1-57392-754-6 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Forjeling great fun!
Comment: Flynn's current opus is, obviously, one man's pet literary project gone amazingly right. The reader is confronted at every turn with novel sci-fi themes, technologies, and premises. The characterizations and physical descriptions are vivid and lasting. That said, there is some bumpiness in the narrative.
Readers may be disturbed to find that the Skeptical Inquirer/Free Inquiry obsession with debunking magician and "mentalist" tricks is alive and well in the 24th century, though in an era with subvocalized commands, no-vis fliers, vanisher valises, and implants, you'd imagine that fakery could take a whole new form beyond "cold reading".
Some of the subject matter is innovative and refreshing. Some of Flynn's setups are so old they have white whiskers...religious traditions have their origin in the ritual ingestion of hallucinogens? Never heard that one before.
Also, non-Mormons beware...there's no Joseph Smith fan like an ex-Mormon. Though the rest of us tend to see all religious con men as more or less similar, the present or former citizens of Deseret see something special and unique in their founder, whether or not they accord him Prophet status.
Still, with so much of the science fiction literature awash in tepid religious themes, it is nice to encounter some freethinker futurist writing, colored as it is by a philosophical diatribe.
Rating: 4
Summary: entertaining and informative
Comment: This book depicts a future in which the Vatican has its own planet and has recognized the existence of Christs on other planets, reality television has evolved to three-dimensional, recordings of experience called "senso," and a con man native to a backward planet is passing himself off as a divine figure. The story follows multiple convoluted threads which ultimately connect back in a cohesive whole; along the way are some historical details of Christianity, Catholicism, and Mormonism, and amusing and interesting extrapolations. I'm looking forward to the sequel.
Rating: 4
Summary: Part sci-fi novel, part philosophical treatise!
Comment: Flynn pulls no punches in this novel, which is both an amusing and intelligent science fiction novel flavoured with a strong subtext on the perils of religion. Even with the grand scope of the novel, his writing is reasonably accessible and his characters quite believable. Anyone who enjoys Iain M Banks or David Brin will feel right at home. As you might expect from a prominent atheist and freethinker, numerous religions come off second best. He reserves his harshest parodies for the Catholic Church and the Mormons, but no 'believer' emerges unscathed. The deeply religious will no doubt be offended, but then they probably don't read science fiction in the first place. I personally enjoyed every forjeling page of it!
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Title: A Devil's Chaplain : Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins ISBN: 0618335404 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 29 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title:Penn & Teller - Bullsh*t! - The First Season ASIN: B00019PDNY Publisher: Showtime Entertainme Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $39.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $29.99 |
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Title: Freehold by Michael Z. Williamson ISBN: 0743471792 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Golden Transcendence : Or, The Last of the Masquerade by John C. Wright ISBN: 0765307561 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Time's Eye (A Time Odyssey, Book 1) by ARTHUR C. CLARKE, STEPHEN BAXTER ISBN: 0345452488 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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