But when Horace returned to his book and saw the photograph of Oppenheimer taken after the war, the haunted look in the man’s eyes said that he’d never managed to make the necessary leap of faith. Like Horace, he must have feared that the Hindus had it backwards: God was the illusion; death was real; and the worlds that it destroyed were destroyed forever.
Matt Ruff has been ahead of the cultural curve with both this and the first book
