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The Shapes of Their Hearts (Hardcover)

by Melissa Scott (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)

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  • Hardcover: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books (Jun 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0312858779
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312858773
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.7 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,267,640 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars God in a Box: Shapes of Their Computers, 15 Aug 1998
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This book is a curious mix. Melissa Scott has created an interesting world of Eden. She's very good at creating suspense, mystery, and keeping you wanting to turn the next page to find out the next wrinkle or revelation in the story. The themes she raises are significant, although they appear to overwhelm her as an author -- she's bitten off a bit more than she can chew. For centuries man has tried to put God in a box, contain Him within theologies and doctrines which are later outgrown. From the old testament God of wrath to the new testament God of love, we have seen how mankind's perspective of God has grown. To accept this novel, one must have a decidedly old testament view of Deity, because the God of Love is not evident. Much like the fundamentalist view of God today who believe any non-Christian or gay are condemned to the fires of hell, the "Children" of this science fiction world believe that clones have no souls and genetically mutated beings called "Scatterlings" are pollution rather than simply different people. This could have been the framework of a tremendously interesting allegory about intolerance, and perhaps this is an angle a potential screenwriter could latch onto. Just like men of the past have tried to put God in a box, the people of this future have put the mind of God in a computer program. To buy the story, you must accept this premise. This is the inherent weakness of the book because rather than a clash of views of faith, we are reduced to a spy-like intrigue of the persecutors and the pursued. Even the spy chase seems to get drowned in the character Anton Tso's mind battle within the computer program with about a quarter of the book being his battle to find the right computer icon to let his mind out of the program and back into his body. Thus, rather than calling this book "The Shapes of Their Hearts," it would be much more appropriate a title "The Shapes of Their Computers." The conclusion of the book happened all too quickly with the events set up in the first several chapters being dismissed with a page's worth of outcomes. All in all, I