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The inimitable pen of Gene Edwards presents this breathtaking story of the believer's relationship to death and to life hereafter.
Expect the unexpected in Dear Lillian, as Edwards declares. "Let's not start at the point of death, as it is the middle of the story. Let us return, first, to the time before creation. Your story of life, death and your place in future eternity begins before the creation."
Rich in hope and abounding with comfort, there has never been a book like Dear Lillian.
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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-04
Harlan is a technician and works for a political sort of organisation called The Eternals. They minister to time over tens of thousands of centuries, and try and keep it running with a minimum of adjustments.
People being what they are, Harlan decides to make a minor fiddle because of his feelings for a woman.
The dangers of too much caution and avoidance of risk-taking.......2007-04-11
I probably first read this classic sometime in the late 1950s; certainly, it's the earliest time travel novel I can remember reading. Andrew Harlan, a native of the 95th century, is a Technician in Eternity, a member of a corps of self-appointed guardians of reality that exists outside of ordinary time. It's a highly stratified society and Harlan is a member of the caste that actually effects changes by making the "Minimum Necessary Change" at the selected point in time and space. Then he meets a woman outside of Eternity with whom he falls in love -- sort of -- and takes it upon himself to protect her from a Change planned for her continuity. Of course, it's a far more complicated matter than that, as Harlan finds out the hard way. In fact, the very existence and survival of Eternity is at stake. But maybe it ought not to survive. The writing seems a bit sappy now, a bit turgid, but styles and tastes change. The basic "time patrol" theme, however, has been riffed on by scores of subsequent novels and short stories. Some points seem rather naive to us now: The enormous size of the "computaplexes," even thousands of years in the future, a voice recording device that's still large enough to require a storage case and a separate microphone, and so on. (It's always surprised me how many Golden Age authors failed to anticipate the minute size of electronic devices so short a distance in their future.) But ignore all that and just enjoy the story for what it is.
This Book is Why I'm a Time Travel Fan.......2006-04-22
Time travel is a great, speculative sub-genre of scifi. Although mildly dated this is book highly worthwhile. Asimov's storytelling and imagination are legendary due to works like this.
What goes around, comes around.......2006-03-21
Isaac Asimov has written a brilliant glimpse into the fragile psyche of man. In our neverending quest for knowledge and to seek the unknown, we take chances. In Asimov's future we have The Eternals to keep us safe from ourselves. The Eternals manipulate the timeline by altering any dangerous situations that may harm mankind in the long run. This creates a dichotomy as mans adventurous and sometimes self-destructive basic need to break free clashes with our conservative desires to play it safe. Asimov explores the end results of this clash with the central character Andrew Harlen. Harlen is the catylist as he unwittingly is played by both sides in a fascinating chess match of truly epic proportions. Some of the aspects of this story were later explored in Spielberg's "Minority Report", as in preventing future events from happening before they can do harm. The best Science Fiction is the kind that really makes you think and this book most assuredly does that.
This is why they call Asimov "the master".......2005-10-20
The End of Eternity is a brisk and totally satisfying thought experiment that poses the question most other time travel books don't even ask: why would you even want to alter events in time? Asimov concludes, correctly, that the life of a species should unfold the same way an individual life unfolds; without the beneft of hindsight. A decision made in hindsight, it turns out, is not superior to the original - it's just wrong for different reasons.
The Foundation series was just OK, Pebble in the Sky and The Currents of Space were downright boring, but this is the type of story that earned Asimov the title of master. Read this book.
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Due to circumstances within our control... TOMORROW WILL BE CANCELED. In the fantastic world of THE END OF ETERNITY this terrifying forecast was entirely possible. The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death not only over every human being but bver the very centuries into which they were born. Past, Present, and Future could be created or destroyed at will. You had to be special to become an Eternal. Andrew Harlan was special. Until he committed the one unforgivable sin- falling in love. Eternals weren't supposed to have feelings. But Andrew Harlan could not deny the sensations that were struggling within him. Andrew knew he could not keep this secret forever. And so he began to plan his escape... a plan that changed his own past... and threatened Eternity itself.
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In the century since the devastating War of a Thousand Suns, humanity has stagnated, staying in the cocoon of the Centrist Worlds while the rapacious pirates of Golen Space prey on ships that venture too far into the interstellar Flux. And starship Impris, lost in the war years, has become the stuff of legend--used by the pirates as bait, even as the Centrist authorities deny her existence. Renwald Legroeder, escaped prisoner and star rigger pilot, has seen what the government doesn't want anyone to see. Framed for treason, he flees--to save himself, and vows to clear his name. He returns to the realm of the pirates to find the truth behind Impris . . . to unmask the conspiracy that cost him his freedom . . . to tear off the blinders that have kept humanity from fulfilling its destiny among the stars.Between Legroeder and redemption lie the pirates' vengeance, if he is caught--and the perils of the Deep Flux, where no man has dared to fly. But with the help of a beautiful pirate renegade named Tracy-Ace/Alfa, he risks everything to uncover the secrets that can clear his name--and change the future of humanity forever.
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Pulp Sci-Fi.......2007-07-21
The main character in Eternity's End is Legroeder, a rigger on space ships that have (too much of) a close resemblance to ocean-going sailing ships. The story centers around this sailing analogy: pirates waylay commercial ships in deep space, capturing treasure and slaves. There is a ghost ship, similar to the Flying Dutchman. Carver describes travel in certain regions of space called the Flux as having waves and currents, clouds and sunsets, storms and becalming. This sailing analog is a big stretch, one that goes too far for me. I found much of this to be shear comic-book-level silliness, and most of my dislike of Eternity's End is based on this (failed) stretch.
There are some good science fiction elements in the book, including races that engage in different levels of cybernetic enhancements (with the pirates pushing the technology). Legroeder receives moderate augmentation about a third the way through the book, and then falls for a pirate female having major augmentation. Their relationship is interesting. Characterizations are a strong part of the book. And Carver writes well, in an easy-to-read, engaging prose.
If you're looking for a science fiction fantasy that's an easy read, is not very edgy, and has an interesting romance, Eternity's End might well satisfy. If you like hard science fiction, look elsewhere (e.g., Vernor Vinge or Jack McDevitt).
An enjoyable Space Opera.......2007-01-10
When Star-Rigger Legroeder escapes the Golan Space Pirates after seven years of captivity the last thing expects on arriving home is to be framed by the RiggerGuild for his ships capture all those years ago. Luckily for him though Lawyer Harriet Mahoney things Legroeder can help her and is prepared to help him in return.
This is the first book I have read in the Star-Rigger Universe, but it's a good stand alone novel and enjoyable enough to make me want to hunt out the other books in this series. Legroeder is a likeable character and most of the supporting stories within the series are filled with believable people in extreme situations.
Apparently it took the author 4 year to write this novel, but for me it has paid off in a book I really enjoyed and am glad to have read.
A Conceptual, Character, and Continuity Challenge.......2006-04-28
This is the first book I have read by Jeffrey Carver. It turns out that "Eternity's End" is number six or thereabouts in a series. Oops-I hate it when that happens, but authors often include catch-up chapters so that latent readers can follow along. Not so with this book. Carver has got some fairly strange conceptual things going on, and I had a difficult time reconciling these concepts as the story plodded onward. There are some very well written scenes. Carver does a good job of maintaining tension during the space battles and chases, but the scenes in between feel flat. Several of his characters are developed very well, but others are left undeveloped to the point in which I had to ask myself: Why is this character in the story?
This book has the feel of some of Arthur C. Clarke's early space opera. Clarke's early books worked well because they were short and not overwritten. Carver could do the same with "Eternity's End" by editing out 200 pages or so, disappearing a few characters, and tightening the plot up a bit.
An light and entertaining story.......2006-01-28
This book is easy too read and well entertaining. The characters aren't very deep and there are no major surprises in the story. But what really sucks after a while is the Christian references that come up all the time. It is hard to imagine for me that in a distant future people (and even aliens) still hang after that pityful religion. After a while, you get the feeling that Carver propably supports "Intelligent Design" and other stupidities too.
But if you can ignore that, its still an entertaining book worth to read if you don't have anything better at hand.
A fun read!.......2005-06-09
I saw this book at a bookstore and decided to buy it because I loved the cover! I had no idea if I would like it and I do not read Science Fiction regularily even though I love Star Trek. I am so glad I bought it though and I plan to get more of Jeffery Carver's Star Rigger books.
To me, reading this book was an experience like playing an old role playing game called Traveller, meaning it was a fun and exciting adventure in future time in outer space. The book starts out with a rigger (starship pilot) named Renwald Legroeder who is being framed for a crime he did not commit, which involves a mysterious starship that has been missing for 100 years, and space pirates. Legroeder is a human being and there are many humans living on a far away planet named Faber Erdrani (Sp?). There are native people there too and a neat race called the Narseil that the reader gets to know well in the story. Legroeder finds himself in jail waiting for a trial and then suddenly gets released by a lawyer named Harriet Mahoney that wants to help him. From there on the story is an exciting adventure and mystery with Legroeder needing to find out more about the missing starship Impris to clear his name. This book is very readable, I highly recommend it! I found myself sad when I was done reading, because it was so good and I loved the characters.
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EXCELENTE.......2006-11-17
De lo mejor, este libro vale la pena leerlo, quizá lo mejor que escribió Asimov y eso ya es decir mucho.
Predecesor de Matrix.......2003-05-23
Definitivamente una de las mejores obras de ciencia ficcion que he leido. La complejidad del tema espacio-tiempo-dimension es absolutamente formidable y envolvente. Los que ya vieron Matrix Reloaded comprenderan que tiene un cierto paralelismo con el libro, tanto por su trama fundamental como por su historia de amor entrelazada.
EXCELENTE.......2002-02-07
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Un libro de ficción para recordar.......1999-07-01
Este es uno de los libros de ficción que más ha perdurado en mi memoria, recomendado para volver a leer despues de unos años. It's one of the best fiction book I have ever read, it's recommended to read more than once.
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With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy.
Controversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods collects Mencken's scathing commentary on religion.
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A different Mencken.......2005-03-01
If you're used to the snappy quotables we've (all?) come to expect from Mencken and love, you may be somewhat disappointed. "Treatise..." contains more carefully fleshed out analysis and argument than his sociocultural criticism.
In this mode, without so much of the caustic wit, his writing style actually doesn't impress quite as much. But, to make up for it, his quality of argument and inventiveness is surprisingly rich. I'd always considered Mencken to be quite a philosopher, as well as a snappy come-backer. Here, he proves it: coming up with some quite brilliant hypotheticals about the origin of religion in early man, especially. And his re-telling of the concise history of Religion shows that he has a knowledge of considerable breadth. There are a few very dramatic turns of phrase here (the fun stuff), some awkward delivery, but a lot of interesting subject matter.
Not For the Theologically Sensitive.......2005-01-13
Pleasant, easy to read, and thorough overview of religion from the beginning of humanity, with an emphasis on Christianity, from the position of an atheist.
From the preface: "My book is mainly factual. Its purpose is simply to get together, in handy and I hope readable form, the material data about the embryology, anatomy, and physiology of theology, with an occasional glance at its pathology....Religion was invented by man just as agriculture and the wheel were invented by man, and there is absolutely nothing in it to justify the belief that its inventors had the aid of higher powers, whether on this earth or elsewhere....There is no purpose here to shake the faithful, for I am completely free of the messianic itch..."
Chapter I "Its Nature and Origin" - Mencken describes his view of how early priests came into being in prehistoric society: "One Spring there came great rains in the valley and on their heels a flood of melting snow...One night the flood rolled into the lowermost cave, cut off the occupants, and drowned a mother and her child...The rising water to them seemed like a living thing...One fellow steps boldly forth...He goes close to the edge and bombards his enemy with stones...Growing bolder, he stalks into the water and belabors it with his club...the next morning the flood begins to recede...This first priest could accomplish something that other men were incapable of...What more natural than to give thanks?...True religion was born at that moment...He took on the aloof, philosophical air of a dermatologist contemplating a rash: he learned how to avoid making promises and yet hold the confidence of his customers... He gave some thought to the form and content of his first incantations, and thereby invented the first ritual...The gift of blarney went with the sacerdotal office, in the early days as now...the new trade of priesthood had attractions that were plainly visible to any bright and ambitious young man...When he let it be known that there were certain things, done by the people, that would gratify the gods and insure their aid, these things began to be regarded as virtuous, upright, moral. When he announced that other things were frowned upon, they straightaway became sins...The priest found himself a law-giver...Did the fires rage and the sky remain dry? Then it was because the faithful had forgotten their plain duties...It was not the priest's fault...calamities were plentiful in those days, as they are now. They remain the most potent weapons in the armamentarium of the priest...Theologians, as a class, are practical men. Immortality, as they preach it in the modern world, is but little more than a handy device for giving force and effect to their system of transcendental jurisprudence: what it amounts to is simply a threat that the contumacious will not be able to escape them by dying...I am myself a theologian of considerable gifts, and yet I can no more imagine immortality than I can imagine the Void which existed before matter took form. Neither, I suspect, can the Pope."
Chapter II "Its Evolution," continues as an academic treatise, but sprinkled liberally with condescending and clever phraseology: About creation myths: "In no department of theology is there a vaster accumulation of amusing rubbish." About afterlife: "Even in India, the very gonad of theology..." About contradictions in the Bible: "The collection of tracts called the New Testament is so full of inconsistencies and other absurdities that even children in Sunday School notice them."
Chapter III "Its Varieties" is a study of comparative religions. This is a well-done academic piece with fewer "Mencke-isms."
Chapter IV "Its Christian Form" is a beautifully written history of Christianity, highly complimentary of the Old Testament as poetry and Literature, and is the best chapter in the book. He reviews the well-accepted J, E, D, & P authorship of the Torah, with brief mention of how it was compiled. (for more info on this, read "Who Wrote the Bible," by Friedman). This chapter alone is worth the price of the book. According to the bibliography, he gets much of his factual material from James Hastings' Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics.
Chapter V "Its State Today," resumes "Menckeisms," such as, "The church as an organization has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions."
I thoroughly enjoyed this entertaining and informative book and highly recommend it. For a different approach to the same subject, I recommend Atran's book, "In Gods We Trust."
Cujus regio, ejus religio.......2004-05-21
In this sardonic, blasphemous and sometimes ferociously cynical pamphlet, H.L. Mencken castigates the irrationality and incredibility of all religions, e.g. there are 175.000 discrepancies in the manuscripts of the Christian New Testament.
But he considers religion rightly as one of ( for him) the greatest inventions of all times, giving the clergy enormous economical (all the temples became extremely rich) and political power. For Mencken, their power comes from the fear of Hell. The God of love that they preach invariably turns out to be a God of harsh and arbitrary penalties and brutalities. Religion is not only cruel (human sacrifices), but also a source of enormous human misery: 'Is a Catholic bishop a good citizen, when he commands, on penalty of Hell, that poor and miserable women convert themselves into mere brood sows?'(p. 270)
'The priest is the most immoral of men.' (p. 271)
His major targets are Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
'Calvin was the true father of Puritanism, which is to say, of the worst obscenity of Western Civilization.' (p. 245) His God is an 'appalling monster'. (p. 272)
The Churches are well aware that science is their natural enemy. Therefore, they try to control education. They are always on the defensive (Galileo, Darwin) and they are opposed to all attempts of rational thinking. For Mencken, religious education is the same as organized ignorance.
He lambasts those who defend religion for 'practical' reasons: 'the fact that threats of Hell have their social uses is ... simply an argument against the human race!' (p. 268)
However, H.L. Mencken has a dark side: 'the democratic pestilence'. Like Plato, he was disgusted with the masses which were a source of a cancerous proliferation of demagogy. More, 'the reigning theologians heated up the mob against the enlightened minority.' (p. 255)
It shows his deep pessimism: the masses could not be educated and the mighty priests kept them in an irrational darkness.
This is an important flaw in his reasoning and it turned out to be a false prophesy. In many democratic countries, the religious right is on the defensive and is losing (lost) important battles.
This treatise is one of the most violent pamphlets I ever read: a Homerian battle of the enlightened one against the powerful caste of the priests.
A must read.
Hard Headed Skeptic of the Theological Arts.......2004-03-15
H. L. Mencken was a rare man indeed. He was a hard headed skeptic of the theological arts, but took an intense, scholarly interest in it, and it was a boon to the universe of thoughtful men when he decided to report back to them on what he found there. The book he wrote will stand for a long while as the best of its kind--at once dispassionate and informative, with more than a little of his trademark wit thrown about with an undisguised glee. His enthusiasm for his subject bubbles out all over the place.
The book begins with an imaginary story of how religion must have gotten started among the first primitive men. It is a story well told, and reveals what Mencken imagines is at the root of men's heart much of the time--a fear of the unknown, and an understandable aspiration to master that fear by some means. Then, very early on, the con men step in to utilize the fear for their own ends--power and cash. To successfully create a job for himself, he proceeds to invent embellishments unintelligible to the poor saps, and rituals that only the initiated, such as himself, can perform.
The book continues with some comparative religion, basing most of it on what the Romans sneered at, that the Greeks made dramas about, what the Jews borrowed from the Babylonians, and what the Asiatics actually first dreamed up. He finds in all of this the roots of Christianity, and especially the stuff that Christ had never thought of, which the theologians later added for the most practical of reasons.
His account of the early church and the evolution of the bibles is gratifying in its scholarship and clarity of description. He makes the ancient theological quarrels come to life, imparting an understanding that is a valuable addition to any freethinker's equipment. Occasionally, the real Mencken peeks through, enlivening and enlightening as he goes.
The best part of the book, though, is when he shows how religion is inadequate for the job, and is in a full retreat before the onslaught of science and rational methods, leaving the truly civilized man with " a way of facing the impenetrable dark that must engulf him in the end, as it engulfs the birds of the air and the protozoa in the sea ooze....not perhaps with complete serenity, but at least with dignity, calm, a gallant spirit."
Words of wisdom from an old pro........2003-03-05
I had no idea H. L. Mencken wrote a book until I stumbled upon this treatise (shows you how much I know). Needless to say, I snatched it up in a heartbeat. The book is, unsurprisingly, a literary delight. I was, however, struck at how calm the tone was compared to the acid sarcasm in his dispatches from the Scopes trial. I have to confess, I enjoyed the peacable Mencken more, not that the old trouble-maker doesn't peek through once in a while to give us a good laugh. There is, for instance, a little passage about a "rough Christian country." But I won't give it away - read it for yourself!
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Review from the Publisher.......2001-03-16
555 Pp. PB. Masterful combination of theological principles and practical application regarding divine love-the subject of Our Lord's first and greatest commandment. Based on Scripture, the Fathers, St. Thomas, it reveals the author's great learning. An acknowledged classic which goes to the heart of the True Religion
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Wendy Wright introduces the reader to the world of de Sales and the issues confronting him and the church, distilling from his masterworks the insights that are as applicable today as they were when first written.
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Wendy Has Done Her Homework.......2001-11-04
St. Francis de Sales' book of spiritual direction is a very practical book for the lay person who wishes to lead a devout life without becoming a religious, and still attend to the necessary business that a lay person's life requires. Wendy quotes each of St. Francis de Sales' sections and then provides her commentary on that section. Her commentary is based on her extensive research on each of the sections; the spirituality of the times concerning the subject, its sources, and how that particular spirituality has changed as of today. She has done her homework and provides invaluable insight into her subject, including, in some cases, her own personal experience with it.
Francis de Sales: Introduction to the Devout Life.......2000-06-19
I found & read this book in a Church library and immediately decided to buy it. What impressed me most was St. Francis timeless teachings on how we can lead a devout life in whatever state where are in, whether we are rich or poor. He teaches how we can transform the disadvantages of material riches into spiritual blessings and likewise how to transform poverty into spiritual wealth. The teachings gave me a new perspective on how to lead a devout life in this modern world. The book is very contemplative and full of wisdom. You can read it over many times and still be able to learn new things.
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Living Love is familiar to many readers as Treatise on the Love of God, written by Francis de Sales during the turbulent beginning years of Calvinism. While bishop of Geneva, de Sales began to write his treatise, divided into twelve short books and published in 1616. This mildly edited version condenses each book into a chapter. Bernard Bangley's gentle touch has preserved de Sale's enthusiasm for God, his compassion, and good humor.
This book reads like long letters to a friend, sprinkled with anecdotes and illustrations from nature. Above all, Living Love is the helping hand of a skilled spiritual director, offering the assurance "that a deep and satisfying prayer life is not only possible, but within the reach of anyone who will accept what God is forever offering."
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Easy reading of a deep subject.......2007-03-14
I've read other books by deSales and loved them. This modern version is much easier to read while remaining faithful to the spirit of deSales. The book assures us that a deep prayer life is within the reach of those who desire it. The book offers inspiration, comfort and challenge in the form of guidance. Buy it, and let your heart soar with the Love of God.
Deacon.......2007-03-08
You will not go wrong with Saint Francis DeSale
Try it! You'll like it and be a better person for it.
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Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise: Exploring 'the Will of God'
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Treatise on Love of God (Hispanisms)
Miguel de Unamuno
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Book Description
Miguel de Unamuno, perhaps the most influential author of modern Spain, wrote his
Treatise on Love of God at the height of his career after suffering a crisis of religious faith. Like Saint Augustine’s
Confessions and much of Kierkegaard, the
Treatise is a study of religious inwardness, and proposes to analyze how God can be found within as a beloved person.
Not content with simple introspection, Unamuno also considers Church fathers like Athanasius, Origen, and Tertullian as well as modern religious scholars like Albrecht Ritschl, Auguste Sabatier, and Ernest Renan. Although Unamuno abandoned plans to publish the
Treatise after Pope Pius X issued an encyclical against modernist theology, it deserves serious study as a prelude to his immensely successful
Tragic Sense of Life and the concentrated work of a great thinker on a deeply serious subject.
Book Description
Partial Contents: God in Himself; First Idea of God; God's Description of Himself; How to Proceed in this Contemplation; Mystery of the Father; The Word, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity; Only Begotten Son; How St. John came by the Expression the Word; Wonders of the Third Person; Blessed Three in One; God in His Works; World of Matter from Stars to Matter; Romance of Our Little Earth; Divine View Point; God in the Heart of the Mystic.
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