Robert Shea (1933–1994)
Teoksen The Illuminatus! Trilogy tekijä
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Shea, Robert Joseph
- Syntymäaika
- 1933-02-14
- Kuolinaika
- 1994-03-10
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- New York, New York, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Glencoe, Illinois, USA
- Suhteet
- Michael E. Shea (son)
Jäseniä
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All Things Are Lights Tekijä: Robert Joseph Shea
A historical novel set at the time of the Cathar Crusade and the later Seventh Crusade. Not bad, but I thought the plot elements didn't quite mesh: Catharism, courtly love, troubadors, the Templars (yes, it touched on Sangreal territory), and a love story.
With a quarter of the book being appendices and the characters realizing they're in a book this is where this series goes from metafiction into a winking declaration of Truth, or maybe fiction that might as well be fact. If you come into it expecting a conclusion that would make sense of the nonsense you've spent 600 pages trying to decipher you will be disappointed. Much like a koan, the book isn't supposed to make sense on the surface level, it's supposed to make sense to you, in a flash of enlightenment. Or illumination.… (lisätietoja)
A short story from Gutenburg originally published in 1959. It's a quick study in a human's place in a computerized system. It's pretty astonishing this was published in 1959 - it reads quite believably even now. Worth a quick read.
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- 132
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