Set in a future universe dominated by thinking machines, the third in a science fiction series that began with Harvest of Stars stars a poet and his lover, who aspire to escape from their machine rulers.
**
From Library Journal
In the far future, a poet and a revolutionary find themselves in the midst of a conspiracy to liberate the human spirit from the benevolent but stifling patronage of the machine intelligence: Teramind. Veteran sf author Anderson demonstrates his talent for prose and narrative economy in this latest addition to a series that includes Harvest of Stars (Tor Bks., 1993). Deceptive in its brevity and simplicity, this gemlike story of passion and the poetic soul belongs in most sf collections.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
This is the third volume (the last was The Stars Are Also Fire ) in Anderson's saga about humanity's strife-ridden future among the stars. Anderson spellbindingly demonstrates the complex rivalry between human and machine through the eyes of both a human and a cybernetic protagonist. Jesse Nicol is a Terran poet who longs for a greatness in his craft that only adventure can inspire and whose wish is granted by his love for the wild, moon-born revolutionary Falaire. Nicol's android counterpart, Venator, carries the resurrected consciousness of a long-dead human whose talents are needed by the ubiquitous Teramind to forestall a possible rebellion against the cybernetic-controlled Federation. The fates of poet and android intertwine when Venator tracks the rebel leader to a well-armed starship bound for the solar system's outermost world, Proserpina, and Nicol joins Falaire on board. Anderson fuses elegiac prose and a sweeping vision of man's technological future as only he can--brilliantly. Already, at its current three-book length, this is one the best sf future histories. Carl Hays
Description:
Set in a future universe dominated by thinking machines, the third in a science fiction series that began with Harvest of Stars stars a poet and his lover, who aspire to escape from their machine rulers.
**
From Library Journal
In the far future, a poet and a revolutionary find themselves in the midst of a conspiracy to liberate the human spirit from the benevolent but stifling patronage of the machine intelligence: Teramind. Veteran sf author Anderson demonstrates his talent for prose and narrative economy in this latest addition to a series that includes Harvest of Stars (Tor Bks., 1993). Deceptive in its brevity and simplicity, this gemlike story of passion and the poetic soul belongs in most sf collections.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
This is the third volume (the last was The Stars Are Also Fire ) in Anderson's saga about humanity's strife-ridden future among the stars. Anderson spellbindingly demonstrates the complex rivalry between human and machine through the eyes of both a human and a cybernetic protagonist. Jesse Nicol is a Terran poet who longs for a greatness in his craft that only adventure can inspire and whose wish is granted by his love for the wild, moon-born revolutionary Falaire. Nicol's android counterpart, Venator, carries the resurrected consciousness of a long-dead human whose talents are needed by the ubiquitous Teramind to forestall a possible rebellion against the cybernetic-controlled Federation. The fates of poet and android intertwine when Venator tracks the rebel leader to a well-armed starship bound for the solar system's outermost world, Proserpina, and Nicol joins Falaire on board. Anderson fuses elegiac prose and a sweeping vision of man's technological future as only he can--brilliantly. Already, at its current three-book length, this is one the best sf future histories. Carl Hays