Review
‘Neverness streaked across the firmament as one of the great romantic epics of modern sf… in The Broken God Zindell’s combination of adventure, metaphysics, and intellectual debate works marvellously, leaving you ready for more.’
Locus
‘The ideas are hard sf with philosophical undertones, and the story is compelling. Zindell makes you think’
New Scientist on The Wild
Product Description
A triumphant close to The Requiem for Homo Sapiens – an epic tour de force that began with The Broken God and was followed by The Wild.
Danlo wi Soli Ringess, son of Mallory Ringess, the pilot who became a god, now has the greatest mission of his life to complete. With Bertram Jaspari’s evil Architects terrorising the universe with their killing star – the morrashar – and Hanuman’s Ringists intent on converting the rest of humanity to the Way of Ringess, Danlo must somehow try to prevent War in Heaven. He must return to his home planet of Neverness, there to confront the demons and ghosts of his earlier life.
Behind him travels an army of lightships, commanded by the ever-larger-than-life Bardo, falling from fixed-point to fixed-point throughout the deep, dark spaces of the Vild, ready to do battle, if they must, with the Ringists’ fleet, lying in ambush for them beyond the Star of Neverness.
In Icefall, Danlo will face many perils and delights: he will confront once more Hanuman li Tosh, his greatest childhood friend and now his deadliest enemy. He will search for his lover, Tamara ten Ashtoreth, whose memory of their time together was destroyed by Hanuman. He will see for himself how humanity responds to starvation and fear for its very life; and he will take an extraordinay journey – the most remarkable journey ever made by any human being – out into the universe, through deceit and temptation and love, to learn what it is to be a man with a conscience, a heart and a soul; and by taking this most dangerous journey of all, Danlo the Wild, Danlo Peacewise, the Lightbringer, will be true to his name, and his heritage.
War in Heaven brings to a cataclysmic finale the most amazing and awe-inspiring journey in modern science fiction, combining the ultimate in space adventure with philosophy, mathematics, spirituality and superb characterization. It is truly the greatest romantic epic of modern sf.
From the Back Cover
Danlo wi Soli Ringess now has the greatest mission of his life to complete.
With Bertram Jaspari's evil Architects terrorising the universe with their killing star and Hanuman's Ringists intent on converting the rest of humanity to the Way of Ringess, Danlo must somehow prevent war in heaven. He must return to his home planet of Neverness there to confront the demons and ghosts of his earlier life.
Behind him travels an army of lightships, commanded by Bardo, falling from fixed-point to fixed-point throughout the deep, dark spaced of the Vild, ready to do battle with the Ringists' fleet, lying in ambush for them beyond the Star of Neverness.
In this gripping climax to Zindell's trilogy, Danlo will take an extraordinary journey out into the universe, through deceit and temptation and love, to learn what it is to be a man with a conscience, a heart and a soul; and by taking this most dangerous journey of all, Danlo the Wild, Danlo Peacewise, the Lightbringer, will be true to his name, and his heritage.
'War in Heaven' brings to a cataclysmic finale the most amazing journey in modern science fiction, combining the ultimate in space adventure with philosophy, mathematics and spirituality.
"David Zindell writes of interstellar mathematics in poetic prose that is a joy to read"
NEW SCIENTIST
About the Author
David Zindell’s short story Shanidar was a prize-winning entry in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. He was nominated for the ‘best new writer’ Hugo Award in 1986. Gene Wolfe declared Zindell as ‘one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson – perhaps the finest.’ His first novel, Neverness, was published to great acclaim.
