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In the early 22nd century, humans' electronic reproductions, known as engrams, have been sent on fact-finding missions throughout the known universe-searching for signs of alien life.
But what they find exceeds their wildest dreams-in nightmarish proportions.
"Includes one of the most heart-stopping moments I've encountered in a novel in years." (Jack McDevitt)
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"In the early 22nd century, humans' electronic reproductions, known as engrams, have been sent on fact-finding missions throughout the known universe-searching for signs of alien life. But what they find exceeds their wildest dreams-in nightmarish proportions. ""Includes one of the most heart-stopping moments I've encountered in a novel in years."" (Jack McDevitt)"
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Australian SF Reader.......2007-08-01
Exploratory spaceships from Earth are crewed by digitised personalities. 110 years after it left, one such ship encounters alien ships.
These almost miraculously build a bunch of orbital towers in space. Some of the crew inhabit android bodies to go and investigate.
It turns out that these amazing alien devices have been left so that only one man can use them, probably the most dysfunctional personality they have.
One of the uses for this technology is FTL travel, so the ship can return to Earth. Their planet has been decimated by AI and not many humans are left.
Most of those that are have taken on some posthuman traits themselves.
Epic science fiction story with unusual protagonists .......2005-07-20
_Echoes of Earth_ by Sean Williams and Shane Dix in the opening pages introduces us to the character Peter Alander, a member of the deep space survey ship _Frank Tipler_. Launched in the year 2050 and traveling at 80% the speed of light, the _Tipler_ carried Alander and the rest of his crew 72 light years from Earth to the star Upsilon Aquarius. They were sent there to survey the third planet in the system, a planet named Adrasteia, one that was known to be the source of oxygen and water spectra detected by interferometers in the Sol system. The _Tipler_ was one of a thousand other similar survey ships launched as part of the United Near-Earth Stellar Survey Program (UNESSPRO) in a great wave of exploration.
In a real twist Alander is not human. Nor is anyone else on the _Tipler_. Or at least, not completely human. Alander, mission leader Caryl Hatzis, and the dozens of other specialists on the _Tipler_ are engrams, electronic simulations of actual people, people that were chosen in the 2040s to have their thought processes copied and molded into a highly complex simulations, ones that could perform - hopefully - just as well as their originals could. Carefully modeled to experience such hormonally influenced traits as desire, hunger, and fatigue, they nevertheless were much better suited to the rigors of interstellar travel. Not only weighing virtually nothing (as it is extremely expensive to accelerate anything to near light speeds), they are much better suited to survive the nearly one hundred year trip to Upsilon Aquarius, able to adjust their internal clocks or even shut themselves off to avoid consumption of resources and to avoid boredom. Once at the planet they generally stayed purely electronic, interacting in a virtual ship-wide environment called ConSense, though they can elect if resources permit to grow and inhabit partially biological androids. In the case of the _Tipler_ mission Alander was the only individual to inhabit such a body, though this was done in large part to keep his engram from breaking down, as he was in danger of merging with and losing his distinctiveness within ConSense due to an apparent flaw in his pattern.
At first the survey looked routine, as while Adrasteia had life, there wasn't much of it; just simple cyanobacteria analogues surviving in the clouds thanks to the planet's bizarre climate. Things did not stay that way for long. After some unusual energy discharges near Adrasteia, strange, perhaps alien objects appear in orbit around the planet. Quickly dubbed Spinners by the crew, they within less than a day construct ten orbital towers around the planet's equator, towering structures that reach from the planet's surface up into space, connected by a vast ring. Ignoring all hails from the _Tipler_, there is only one apparent means of interaction; what looks to be an elevator of sorts in the base of one of the towers. Against the wishes and at first without the knowledge of Hatzis and the others, Alander steals a shuttle and flies to that tower and takes the lift. Once inside, he finds that the towers were indeed built by an alien intelligence, a race that is vastly superior technologically to the one the engrams came from. Greeting Alander is a highly complex artificial intelligence that they dub the Gifts, for they inform Alander that they are in fact a gift from this race, the Spinners. Refusing to answer any questions about the Spinners themselves - claiming that they do not possess such knowledge - the inform Alander that he has been specially selected to act an emissary to those on the _Tipler_, that the Gifts will speak to him and him alone, guiding him to the various treasures in the towers.
For purposes of the story the two most significant of the various gifts are faster-than-light communication, and a small faster-than-light ship that the Gifts tell Alander is called a hole ship. Using the communicator, they send a message to Earth. They receive no reply. The _Tipler_ had lost contact with Earth during the flight to Upsilon Aquarius but felt it was possibly due to any of a number of reasons, including time lag. After some discussion and a near disastrous crisis, Alander decides to pilot the hole ship back to the Sol system (being the only one that the Gifts will allow to do so).
What he finds upon his return astounds him. Though he thought he was prepared to have found humanity to have vastly advanced during the hundred years he had been gone, Alander was shocked. Venus and Earth were missing, and there was a vast structure in its place instead, the start of a Dyson sphere. Artificial intelligences, having become self-aware after the _Tipler_ left, nearly wiped out humanity, with only 3 million still alive, many of those not entirely biological any more. Alander, ignorant of current Sol politics, tries to contact whatever successor exists to UNESSPRO. Instead he comes to the attention of the Vincula, a group mind of sorts that rules the system now, one that attempts to use Caryl Hatzis, the sole surviving engram contributor, to gain control of Alander and gain access to the Gifts.
Alander's arrival touched off a conflict within the system, the Vincula viewing his apparently faster-than-light ship as extremely valuable while the few remaining individualists were not keen to let the Vincula control the technology, the latter trying to oppose the Vincula. Though that seems bad enough at first, a far, far worse conflict occurs. Humanity learns the terrible, awful consequences that result from the use of the Gifts, not one coming from the Spinners, but from some other, darker alien menace.
According to the Gifts, "There are civilizations who take delight in the destruction of others."
And thus begins a trilogy. Things look extremely bleak at the end, but there is a ray of hope. I found it very well written and highly engaging and look forward to other books in the series.
Good, but..........2004-07-16
I enjoyed this book, but not enough to want to desperately want to conclude the series. First of all, what I like. The science was not exactly hard, but plausible. By that I mean, there is little technical justification for most of the high technology. However, this is reasonable because, from the point of view of the books very human and very primitive characters, the technology was both alien and beyond comprehension. The story was above average, and moved very quickly. From the mysterious arrival, to the deeper investigation and widening mystery, to the inevitable onset of chaos, destruction, and general no good, the plot moves at a reaspectable (if somewhat predictable) pace.
But, there was plenty to dislike. The characters werent all that great. Bearing in mind that our major players are sentient computer programs modeled after real human beings, its difficult to become attached. I could care less what happened to them. And, throughout most of the novel, the author does little to change this. In such circumstances, he should have forced us to see them as more human, as true beings of character. Instead, we see machines, programs, behaving according to engineered design. In fairness, the end of the text changes this picture somewhat, but by then its far too late (at least in my opinion). The damage was done. The requisite "death and destruction" ending for a series such as this was a little too deadly and destructive. Rather than a grand battle, we get crushed ants. Yawn. Weak. Lame. I didn't care, one way or the other. Humanity of Williams' future DESERVES its fate. But I would have liked to be slightly more entertained. One would think an intelligent species on the brink of forced extinction would have mounted a more desperate resistance.
So, yeah, I guess what I'm saying is that a good science fiction series (for me, at least) needs a little character and a proper plot to go with all that technology and alien mystery. Or, a little fiction with my science, please.
A gift or a curse?.......2004-07-10
A engram crew of a survey ship runs into an alien race that likes to leave gifts. This gifts take many forms, mostly in the form of information or high-tech wonders. But the aliens don't stick around, but just dump the gifts and leave.
Can they be trusted? Or are they just paranoid? Do they have REASON to be paranoid?
The gifts, from a faster-than-light ship to a library full of information about the galaxy, all seem too perfect. Was the survey ship just at the right place at the right time, or is there something more happening?
This is a hard science fiction adventure, a first contact novel and a dangerous mystery all in one. Can Peter Alander figure out what to do? Can he help humanity, made up of people who look at him as nothing more then a flawed program, or will he end up failing it?
I enjoyed the novel very much and really found the idea that most of the characters are not even living beings, if defined by our standards, to be a nice touch.
Cool Ideas.......2003-12-21
This is the first volume in a series? Trilogy? I dunno. I can say that at least two more books follow it.
So once again, it's the future: 2165 or around about that. It appears that by 2050, Earth had become all peaceable and stuff and also monstrously prosperous, thanks to technology. So everyone became real keen on exploring space. 'Cept that it would be really expensive and not terribly feasible to send human crews blasting around for hundreds of years to reach our nearest neighbors. So engram crews were sent instead: super-complex software recreations of actual people, or bodiless clones, if you will. This meant that the ships just basically had to be flying computers with some nanofacturing capabilities to build stuff at the destination. Also the engrams could basically ride along in stand-by mode, more or less sleeping, so as to not, you know, flip out through the sheer boredom of the long voyage.
Well, at this here one distant destination, many light years away, and a hundred years after launch time, one engram does wig out over the basic disconnect over "my memories tell me I am Peter but really I know I am a computer program in a VR environment". So his crew dumps him in an android body on the planet's surface and tells him to just kind of putter about at the base camp there and stay out of their way. They get no transmissions from Earth, so obviously something happened during the trip and the home planet cannot or will not talk to them (although of course any real-time communications would be out of the question due to the years-long time lag).
A coupla years later, the engrams are just minding their business and building robo-facilities and exploring and stuff, when, within a day, a bunch of linked orbital towers get connected via space elevator to the surface. Who built these, and how and why, are mysteries. Pete the engram/android flies over to the base of one of the tower-things and gets a free ride up to the spindle attached above, way up in orbit. Then a pack of alien AIs go all, "I am for you, Peter" and tell him, yeah, some benevolent super-aliens just did a quick fly-by and built this whole complex installation with some of their Model T-level technology, 'cuz they're all hyper-advanced but they like to throw a few crumbs at the more primitive species they encounter, to help 'em bootstrap their way up. And oh, yeah, the alien AIs will only talk to and obey Peter and no one else in the crew.
So the novel goes from there. Who are these aliens? What do they want? Are they good? Are they bad? Should the engrammites use all of the kewl toys the aliens have given them? And what has become of Earth in the meantime?
This is a tale on yer epic Clarkean scale with a bit of Vernor Vinge thrown in. Huge revelations are...um...revealed. And action takes place on literally a stellar level. Lots of big ideas get thrown around. (The authors are a little too proud of their use of the revised Planckian measurement system, but it shows how seriously they take some of their scientific gimcrackery.)
It's pretty good and definitely bold. Zesty, with a big finish and a slightly nutty aftertaste. I enjoyed it, and my cat Mr. Hate gives it his highest recommendation of "I would sleep on top of that book".
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Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth
Ben Bova
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Our neighboring planets may have the answer to this question. Scientists have already identified ice caps on Mars and what appear to be enormous oceans underneath the ice of Jupiter's moons. The atmosphere on Venus appeared harsh and insupportable of life, composed of a toxic atmosphere and oceans of acid -- until scientists concluded that Earth's atmosphere was eerily similar billions of years ago.
An extraterrestrial colony, in some form, may already exist, just awaiting discovery.
But the greatest impediment to such an important scientific discovery may not be technological, but political. No scientific endeavor can be launched without a budget, and matters of money are within the arena of politicians. Dr. Ben Bova explores some of the key players and the arguments waged in a debate of both scientific and cultural priorities, showing the emotions, the controversy, and the egos involved in arguably the most important scientific pursuit ever begun.
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Empty Rehash at a Middle School Level.......2006-12-12
I guess you can't tell a book by the cover. I read WHERE IS EVERYBODY (Stephen Webb) at the same time as I read this work. A flying saucer with little green men adorned EVERYBODY whereas a majestic Milky Way galaxy was the selected cover art for this book. The contents, though, was exactly opposite of what one would expect. Where EVERYBODY is erudite, FAINT ECHOES is almost junior high level. EVERYBODY asks, explores and attempts to formulate answers to deep philosphical question / FAINT ECHOES is a light review of well-known knowledge with a dose of politics.
First complaint - the font is huge and there's LOTS of empty space. If the same font as EVERYBODY had been used and the useless, numerous subtitles had been omitted it could have been reduced by half. Second complaint - the science is a stripped down MTV version for those who want quick, glib answers without a lot of serious inquiry. A case in point - the evolution from prokaryotes to eurakyotes is discussed in both books. EVERYBODY offers a vibrant detailed discussion; FAINT ECHOES has a breezy, overview that hurriedly skips to the next subject. EVERYBODY has an extended, in-depth discussion (with multiple illustrations) on the role of amino acids, the building blocks of genes. FAINT ECHOES makes a few references to the subject. It's dreamlike, one of those streams of consciousness where the next thought simply spills out on the page - Mars Rover, Drake Equation, asteroids, evolution, SETI, blah blah. To generate a little interest he throws in such nonsense as ancient astronauts, Roswell, abductions, Velikovsky, Martian "canals", etc
Finally the author admits he is a true believer in intelligent life beyond Earth and issues a call to unite and become brothers and sisters of humanity. Calling all Kumbaya singers for the next rehearsal. My grade: F.
Does life exist anywhere but Earth?.......2006-05-15
A nice introduction to the nature & requirements for life.
Will we someday find life in our own solar system (outside of earth)? I personally think so. Will we find signs of INTELLIGENT life in the universe?
Food for thought.
A readable but limited introduction to astrobiology.......2004-04-28
Science writer and science fiction writer extraordinaire, Ben Bova (only people like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan, and maybe one or two others, have done those two things any better) has two primary purposes in writing this book. The first is to bring the general reader up to date on the current status of the search for life beyond earth and the likelihood of its existence. The second is to report (and critique) the state of the political and economic wars pertaining to that search. Along the way Bova updates us on how the solar system was formed, concentrating in turn on each of the planets. He reports on the status of extra-solar planets (over 100 have been discovered as he went to press) and on why it is now believed that life may (in the form of "extremophiles") exist in places previously thought to be completely inhospitable such as deep underground, at the bottom of deep oceans, such as under the ice of Jupiter's moon, Europa, or even in interstellar clouds.
The main strength of the book is Bova's always readable prose; the main weakness is a kind of "introductory" treatment that may be too limited or simplistic for more sophisticated readers. For myself--a reader somewhere between the extremes of novice and expert--I found the book reasonably informative and certainly in no sense dumbed-down. Of course I did not need to be told (as Bova does in a gray sidebar on page 80) that "a meteorite is what is left of" a meteor "if it survives to the ground." Nor did I need to be reminded that "Einstein's special theory of relativity showed that matter can be converted to energy" as Bova does in a footnote on page 67. Or even that living organisms seem to (but do not) violate the law of entropy. There are many other examples of this concession to the beginning reader, but not so many that I was annoyed or felt my time was being wasted. The editors are to be commended for putting most of the elementary material in gray boxes, footnotes, or in some of the eleven appendices.
The book is organized into five sections beginning with what Bova calls "The Path to Astrobiology," and ending with "Tomorrow," in which he laments the lack of consistent funding for space exploration and argues that, if humans are to survive any of the catastrophes likely to strike earth (including the near certainty of the sun's expansion, explosion, and collapse in the very, very distant future) we must learn to live in places other than earth.
For the real afficionado of astrobiology, this book will indeed be much too basic. For the fairly well-informed reader wanting to know just where we are in the search for life beyond earth, there are several better books. Two that I can recommend are, Stephen Webb' outstanding Where Is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life (2002), the excellent The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World (2002) by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, and the delightful Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life (2003) by David Grinspoon. Bova includes a discussion of the famous Drake equation and his take on the probabilities implied therein, but if you want the real in-depth treatment read Stephen Webb's book
As far as the politics at NASA and in the Congress of the United States goes, I cannot recommend a better book, but can tell you that Bova's treatment here has taught me little that I didn't know. That the late Senator William Proxmire stupidly bestowed upon SETI one of his infamous "Golden Fleece" awards is old news, as is the fact that Nevada Senator Richard Bryan ridiculed the search for extraterrestrial life back in 1992 and helped to persuade Congress to cut SETI projects from NASA's budget. However Bova does report the efforts of private citizens (notably Microsoft's Paul Allen) to fund SETI projects as well as the efforts of some people at NASA and in Congress to emphasize the possibility of finding at least microbial life under the surface of Mars or elsewhere in the solar system as a means of exciting the public's fancy. If the public's fancy can be sufficiently excited, that will surely persuade our representatives to vote funds to support such projects.
Certainly Bova has a clear understanding of what goes on in Congress. He writes, "Politicians make their decisions for political reasons, not scientific. The first question a politician asks when faced with a decision is, How will this affect my chances for reelection?" (p. 273)
Nothing is going to change that. That is the way a representative democracy works. What needs to be done is to educate the public (and Congress itself!) on (1) the real value of the search for life beyond earth and (2) the real value of being able to colonize, e.g., the moon and Mars. In the first case we have that most beautiful quote from Lee DuBridge (or was it Pogo?) that sets the tone for Bova's book: "Either we are alone in the universe or we are not; either way it's mind-boggling." (p. ix) In the second case we have the specter of any number of earth-confined catastrophes that colonists on the moon or Mars might avoid, such as an unstoppable disease, nuclear warfare, or a huge meteor striking the earth.
Good, but where's the Politics?.......2004-04-09
I enjoyed this light work of nonfiction, but was disappointed. Bova's insights science-wise are very good, there is very little to do with politics in the the book besides Congess cancelled these missions, this happened when he becamre head of NASA, and so on.
Interesting ideas.......2004-03-03
Noted author, Dr. Ben Bova evaluates the age old question of whether humanity is alone in this vast universe. Whether he looks back to Copernicus and earlier or to the SETI project, Dr. Bova provides insight into the past and present scientific wars, the religious dogma, and the political benefit/cost analysis skirmishes. The author uses planet earth to make a case that life probably exists on other orbs in the universe and even in our solar system. He argues that life on earth survives hostile planetary environs that for centuries was assumed nothing could live there and bacteria brought to the moon thrives in conditions that would kill humans. Perhaps the Martian icecaps or the Jovian moons will prove to have living organisms.
FAINT ECHOES, DISTANT STARS: THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF FINDING LIFE BEYOND EARTH is at its best when Dr. Bova makes the inductive case that we are not alone. The nonfiction is also quite fun to read when it looks into the past to show those times that science clashed with politics/religion. When the book goes deep into the current skirmish over funding something somewhat esoteric and not easy to see the benefits, it is fascinating but loses some of the propulsion that the history and the science provides. Still this is another strong effort by Dr. Bova, who makes no pretense on which side of the debate he supports.
Harriet Klausner
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The first volume devoted entirely to Electron Spin Echo Envelope Modulation (ESEEM) Spectroscopy This valuable book provides an introduction and broad survey of topics in ESEEM spectroscopy, including the theory, instrumentation, peculiarities of ESE experiments, and analysis of experimental data with particular emphasis on orientationally disordered systems. Applications of ESEEM spectroscopy to study chemically and biologically important paramagnetic centers in single crystals, amorphous solids, and powders are discussed as well. Electron Spin Echo Envelope Modulation (ESEEM) Spectroscopy will benefit specialists in magnetic resonance spectroscopy, physicists, chemists, and biologists who use magnetic resonance in their research.
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The Western esoteric roots of Christianity. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures, which he rewrote and published as this book, Christianity As Mystical Fact. This important work marks a watershed in the development of Western esotericism and our deeper understanding of the roots, development, and meaning of Christianity.
In his autobiography, Steiner wrote of this work, "My intention was not simply to present the mystical content of Christianity. Rather, my aim was to describe its evolution from the ancient Mysteries to the Mystery of Golgotha in such a way as to reveal forces as work in this evolution that were not just earthly, historical forces, but spiritual, extra-earthly impulses. I wanted to show that the content presented in the ancient Mysteries took the form of ritualistic pictures of events occurring within the cosmos, events that were then transferred from the cosmos to the earth in the Mystery of Golgotha as a sense-perceptible fact accomplished on the plane of history."
Christianity As Mystical Fact is a fundamental book, both in Steiner's own development and that of Western esotericism and for our understanding of the Christ event. Here readers will find the evolutionary development from the ancient Mysteries through the great Greed philosophers to the events portrayed in the Gospels.
A book in the Classics in Anthroposophy series
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Classic early Steiner.......2007-01-03
This book covers in essay form a series of lectures Steiner gave in 1902. The material covered includes the nature of the near-eastern mysteries and their relationship to Christ's life and teachings. Steiner's highly original insights are only beginning to be appreciated.
Mysteries of Gnostism?.......2006-02-16
This book is full of "mysteries", or so it lays claim, and that only those who ave this superior knowledge can truely know anything about anything. How absured!
We have the Bible that tells all we need to know and it speaks against such apostasy. Let the reader be so warned!
As good and prescient as Welburn asserted.......2002-06-29
I learned about this book while reading translator Andrew Welburn's excellent book The Beginnings of Christianity: Essene Mystery, Gnostic Revelation and the Christian Vision. These two books should be treated as a set. I was apprehensive about reading Steiner, not wanting anything to do with occult, psychic, or reincarnation ideas -- fortunately, none of these appear in this particular book.
Highly recommended to anyone who is interested in the original, esoteric forms of Christianity as a Jewish-styled version of the Hellenistic mystery-religion, as described in the book The Jesus Mysteries, by Freke and Gandy.
New life into the old book.......2001-06-07
In this book, Steiner describes how Christianity evolved from earlier esoteric traditions such as the mystery schools, Egyptian and Eastern wisdom, and Greek philosophy.
Steiner interprets the life of Chrsit as a model for the path of an initiate. As examples, he offers elegant insights into parts of the gospels which have previously left me "in the dark." Some say that Steiner's approach to the Christianity has been continued by Joseph Campbell. If you like Campbell, you'll like this book.
This book has reinvigorated Christianity for me-- by showing me how it can be interpreted like a myth. Now I can look at the gospels in a new manner, and gain new insights from them.
I think that it helps to have a little background in Greek philosophy to read this book, but I don't think that its absolutely necessary.
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1914. Contents: Points of View; Mysteries and their Wisdom; Greek Sages Before Plato; Wisdom of the Mysteries and Myth; Wisdom of Egypt; Gospels; Apocalypse; Jesus His Historical Background; St. Augustine and the Church.
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A wide spectrum of mysticism portrayed........2005-10-25
Of particular interest for me when I read this was the juxtaposition of Jesus and St. Augustine. There are many paths for the mystic and truth lies deeply somewhere within all of them. Extremely informative!
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