- Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Bantam USA (Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553575716
- ISBN-13: 978-0553575712
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,203,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A powerful, visionary epic from a celebrated voice in speculative fiction.
For millennia, the Imperium has held sway over Pangaea. The pure dreams of its great dreamers are used to elevate and pacify the consciousness of a society strictly divided by caste. Here eroticism is repressed for a higher cause, and sex is a shameful remnant of ages past. But when Pangaea's most beloved dreamer is brutally assassinated, it's clear that a dangerous group of revolutionaries is dreaming the old dreams of violence, uninhibited sex...and freedom.
For although Pangaea is the most benevolent of tyrannies, it is a tyranny nonetheless. Here an elite "pure" scientist and a lowly birthtank worker share a forbidden passion; a grief-stricken Imperial officer embarks on a fanatic crusade; a sensual erotician possesses powers beyond her understanding; and an "impure" terrorist and his vengeful daughter wreak a path of unspeakable destruction. As mysterious earthshocks shake Pangaea, they are drawn together by the outlawed Orb of Eternity--a feared and ancient oracle whose ambivalent message heralds either redemption...or apocalypse.
For millennia, the Imperium has held sway over Pangaea. The pure dreams of its great dreamers are used to elevate and pacify the consciousness of a society strictly divided by caste. Here eroticism is repressed for a higher cause, and sex is a shameful remnant of ages past. But when Pangaea's most beloved dreamer is brutally assassinated, it's clear that a dangerous group of revolutionaries is dreaming the old dreams of violence, uninhibited sex...and freedom.
For although Pangaea is the most benevolent of tyrannies, it is a tyranny nonetheless. Here an elite "pure" scientist and a lowly birthtank worker share a forbidden passion; a grief-stricken Imperial officer embarks on a fanatic crusade; a sensual erotician possesses powers beyond her understanding; and an "impure" terrorist and his vengeful daughter wreak a path of unspeakable destruction. As mysterious earthshocks shake Pangaea, they are drawn together by the outlawed Orb of Eternity--a feared and ancient oracle whose ambivalent message heralds either redemption...or apocalypse.
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This was a very interesting book, and once it got rolling (about halfway through, after all the introduced characters finally got tied in) I could not put it down either. But at points the elaborate vocabulary got to be a "little" excessive. I would put the book down and still have weird words and phrases ringing in my head such as, 'times lost to antiquity' 'pure, subpure, impure' 'imperial this and that'. But other than those things, it was a quick and enjoyable read, and I will probably hunt down the next book when it comes out.
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I couldn't put this blasted book down! A compeling, complex world that is written with a firey eloquence. I'm already ready already for the next book in the series :]. BRING IT ON!
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In the best SFnal tradition, Mason turns our most basic assumptions about life upside down in this truly exotic world. With deeply drawn characters and a complex, layered plot (that apparently is just unfolding), I felt like I was entering a vision (not slogging through techie excess). The tight lyrical prose reads like Beat poetry. Destined to become a cult classic
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