First Review of Completed Novel is In! Smashwords
Review by: yetanothermovie on Dec. 03, 2014 : FOUR STARS
Great read! Gregory (whose writing I encountered last year, and enjoyed) spins a fascinating dual-poled tale, part in the distant Roman-Egyptian past and part in the near-future.
What he's so good at doing is pulling together different strands - future tech, cognition and the brain, 'spirituality', cosmology, and more, and pulling them together into a feeling of excitement and anticipation.
The characters are interesting too - at times they feel a little out of sync with my own life, but their flavour is very distinct, like biting into a really good blue cheese, or macadamia nuts. It would be interesting to live in a world with them..
This is a first book in an arc/series, so it does feel a little cut short (and it isnt very clear which direction the plot is moving toward). Thats why it only gets 4 stars - I'd have liked it to have been longer, and to have spent more time bringing out the richness of characters own lives.
Above all, worth reading for anybody in today's world who faces the 'certaintists' - the true believers who hide behind rationality and mass-agreement to convince the world that finally, we know, that we are certain of what we know, and that those before us who made the mistake of being certain of what they knew were an aberration we've thrown off.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)
LINK: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Great read! Gregory (whose writing I encountered last year, and enjoyed) spins a fascinating dual-poled tale, part in the distant Roman-Egyptian past and part in the near-future.
What he's so good at doing is pulling together different strands - future tech, cognition and the brain, 'spirituality', cosmology, and more, and pulling them together into a feeling of excitement and anticipation.
The characters are interesting too - at times they feel a little out of sync with my own life, but their flavour is very distinct, like biting into a really good blue cheese, or macadamia nuts. It would be interesting to live in a world with them..
This is a first book in an arc/series, so it does feel a little cut short (and it isnt very clear which direction the plot is moving toward). Thats why it only gets 4 stars - I'd have liked it to have been longer, and to have spent more time bringing out the richness of characters own lives.
Above all, worth reading for anybody in today's world who faces the 'certaintists' - the true believers who hide behind rationality and mass-agreement to convince the world that finally, we know, that we are certain of what we know, and that those before us who made the mistake of being certain of what they knew were an aberration we've thrown off.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)
LINK: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
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