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Ladataan... God of TarotTekijä: Piers Anthony
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Brother Paul of the Holy Order of Vision is a monk on a future Earth that has expanded to the stars. He's sent by his order to investigate reports that God has appeared on the planet Tarot . On this planet the various Tarot cards manifest in creative ways and "religions are wielded like swords." I discovered this book in my teens right around the time I became fascinated with the Tarot. I'm really the opposite of a New Ager, and don't buy any deck of cards have powers or that the tarot cards have a mystical past going back to Egypt, but I loved the art and symbols of it all, so I adored how Anthony played with it and religious and spiritual themes. This book is structured around the first 9 trumps of the Tarot. The first book of a trilogy and it's no standalone, but more like the first part of one long book. näyttää 3/3 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinCluster (6.1) Tarot (1) Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinMoewig Science Fiction (3576) Sisältyy tähän:Tarot (tekijä: Piers Anthony)
Readers can return to the planet of holy lusts and deadly dreams in this reissued edition of the first adventure in the Tarot series. Paul is a monk, which is better than a warrior on the planet Tarot, where religions are wielded like swords. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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The protagonist Brother Paul is an adherent of the Holy Order of Vision, a religious body on a future Earth that has been depopulated and energy-rationed into pre-industrial levels of technology, while most of humanity has departed into exoplanetary colonization efforts. He is very explicitly an octaroon identifiable as "black" to his colleagues, a point of occasional relevance to the plot. It is not reflected in Rowena Morrill's cover art, which otherwise accurately shows a scene from chapter 7 of the book, with Paul confronting a dragon who represents Temptation.
The general plot concerns Paul's investigation of strange phenomena on the colonized planet Tarot. The planet's "animation zone," in which thought-forms take on physical reality, seems to be Anthony's science-fictional conceit for what occultists would call the astral plane. As Paul explores it, he encounters simulations of significant historical designers, commenters, and patrons of the Tarot, including Filippo Maria Visconti, Arthur Edward Waite, and Aleister Crowley. Anthony gets Waite's diction just right, to the point where I suspected him of simply cribbing from Waite's work for some of the dialogue. Crowley is not quite as spot-on, and is given misogyny as a disproportionate keynote of his character. Still, it is Crowley who becomes Paul's principal guide in the animation zone.
The final section of the book is occasioned by Paul's effort to know his True Will, as goaded by Crowley. The upshot is that he recovers a Phildickian, proto-cyberpunk sort of tale from his previously inaccessible memories of his life before joining the Holy Order of Vision. Thus the very end of the book takes place in narrative chronology before the beginning, and the reconnection of that knowledge to Paul's dilemma on Tarot is left for later volumes. It seems that I will need to read further before reaching any real opinion on the merits of the work as a whole.