Neverness
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- Synopsis
- [from inside flaps] Comparable to Frank Herbert's Dune in imaginative sweep and technical virtuosity, Neverness is a science fiction masterwork that is sure to establish David Zindell as one of the genre's premier talents. For the reader who enters the pages of Neverness, there awaits a world of stunning complexity: a world in which the evolutionary possibilities open to mankind are presented in marvelously rich detail, from the seemingly primitive Alaloi, whose genes have "back-mutated" to give them the appearance of Neanderthals; to the sophisticated Order of Pilots, which reworks the laws of time and physics to slingshot its members through dense regions of "thickspace"; to the Solid State Entity, a nebula-sized brain composed of moon-sized biocomputers analogous to neurons; to the Ieldra, a mythical race of aliens that eons ago seeded the galaxy with its DNA and initiated the evolutionary cycle. Standing at the center of the novel is Mallory Ringess, headstrong novitiate of the Order of Pilots, who against all odds navigates a maze of interspatial passageways to penetrate the Solid State Entity. When he returns to his native Neverness, it is with the conviction that the secret of the Ieldra--a guarded pool of knowledge that can unlock the secret of immortality--may be found among the Alaloi. He then leads a quest that will see him bludgeoned to death, cryogenically frozen, then resurrected as half man, half biocomputer--kin of sorts to the Solid State Entity. It is in the novel's dramatic final pages that Mallory will be asked to discard the last vestiges of humanity in return for mankind's ultimate salvation."
- Copyright:
- 1988
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 458 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780917657979
- Publisher:
- Donald I. Fine, Inc.
- Date of Addition:
- 04/06/15
- Copyrighted By:
- David Zindell
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Submitted By:
- Evan Reese
- Proofread By:
- Aidee Campa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.