Two miracles have opened to men the way of the stars: a inexhaustible source of energy and the secret of immortality. However, isolated by the barrier speed of light, the colonies become sclerotic; about immortality, it distills its insidious poison: boredom ...
Alone owner of a depopulated Earth by galactic diaspora, Doran Falkner The author of two miracles, in seeking a third to lead humanity out of its torpor. The answer lies perhaps in the world Amaterasu, where placid animals seem able to teleport like the rider flying over the chessboard squares. Unless the centaurs ...?
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Firstly thank you to L'Atalante for sending me this book very nice and very pleasant to read.
I must say I was quite surprised with the theme of the book and the summary, I expected a more hard-science novel, and maybe blow a little harder to read. In reality it is nothing but a novel that focuses more on the human side of the story on the technical side, although there are few descriptions here and there a little more complex than the rest .
Funny because the book is organized into different chapters, and sometimes they themselves are divided by subtitles part. It follows therefore
Doran Faulkner, whom he is now almost eight hundred years has revolutionized humanity. This has been a galactic diaspora following treatment to regain youth and vitality, and acquire a form of immortality. Faulkner is now virtually the sole owner of the Earth and he enjoys rebuilding old ancient monuments as they were in their time. That's about at this point that landed Brian McGivern, a former lawyer who Doran appealed at the time his discoveries. He then speaks of these creatures able to teleport instantly from one place to another. He wants Doran joins the scientists who study these animals will go to try to unravel the mystery of teleports in order to apply it to humans. What would constitute a third revolution, since mankind is still unable to overcome the constraints of the speed of light and travel stellar therefore take many years he must go into hibernation.
So on this basis that the story starts. It's quite surprising and original as the beginning, because in the first pages, Doran living on the site of Delphi with restored monuments, it seems to be in Ancient Greece. Then with the arrival of McGivern it is projected into the distant future.
It is also original from the author to have imagined a humanity always subject to the speed barrier of light. It is rather rare in a science fiction novel, and it provides an opportunity to explore things that we rarely see.
As the problems of hibernating versus someone left on a planet and it continues to age and for whom time is running normally. Thus, for example, that Mary, the woman is in love Doran hibernate is time that the research team is assembled, but it goes well next to any child of his son who becomes a virtual stranger to her.
The author with his idea of treating conferring immortality almost imagine people also raises issues related to aging, he imagines that some may refuse treatment and wish to grow old and eventually die. It also explores the reactions of others facing this choice, some find it absurd and do everything to convince them to change their minds, others do not agree, but accept it ...
In summary, this is a very dense book, with full topics discussed, full of different ideas, but it is a book that reads quickly, and especially it reads very well. The pages turn very quickly, it is sometimes difficult to stop. And when you stop, it is surprising to read as many pages. It is a very good book of SF, which can be read without hesitation.
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