Mother of Storms
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Borring, waste of my time and my money!
  • 1995 Hugo And Nebula Award Nominee
  • The book that got me hooked on John Barnes
  • Mainstream SF
  • weather and disaster go together!
Mother of Storms
John Barnes
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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ASIN: 0812533453

Book Description

In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane accidentally triggered by nuclear explosions spawns dozens more in its wake.A world linked by a virtual-reality network experiences the devastation first hand, witnessing the death of civilization as we know it and the violent birth of an emerging global consciousness.Vast in scope, yet intimate in personal detail, Mother of Storms is a visionary fusion of cutting-edge cyberspace fiction and heart-stopping storytelling in the grand tradition, filled with passion, tragedy, and the triumph of the human spirit.

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1 out of 5 stars Borring, waste of my time and my money!.......2006-12-21

First I got this book because it was suggest that I buy it because I brought "Heavy Weather" and I thought okay I bite for it. Boy, I was wrong with this novel, totally borring and so borring that I couldn't get past the first 20 pages of the novel.

Another thing that I didn't like about how John Barnes writes is the fact that his chapters are extremely long, he dose not break up like the rest of other authors do.

4 out of 5 stars 1995 Hugo And Nebula Award Nominee.......2006-08-23

I had picked up this book in protest of what was yet again another Hugo award to Lois McMaster Bujold. She certainly has her legions of fans and I've read several of her works, but had enough. Reviewing the Hugo finalists this one appeared to be the most interesting. Was I happy to have picked this.

First off, I think maybe Barnes is compared to Heinlein in that Barnes seems to share the same sense of chivalry and protectiveness towards women (read by some as sexist). The other is that he portrays unsavory characters perhaps more neutrally than many other authors would. He also tends to be slightly libertarian in his writings on government, which Heinlein was known to be. But other than that, he really is his own author and should be considered such.

This novel can be considered your classic disaster novel. Instead of an asteroid or comet coming to impact as in Lucifer's Hammer, a Superhurricane is unleashed on the Earth. And by super, I mean Super. The eye alone of this hurricane is the size of some US states, and I don't mean Rhode Island. Due to a mechanism that heats up the oceans of the planet which is a major factor in the formation of hurricanes, and particularly the spread of the hurricane-sustaining-warmth waters, this hurricane persists indefinitely wreaking havoc on an incredible scale. And in what is probably the most realistic aspect of the novel, that even though this super-hurricane is literally wiping out entire states, that attitude throughout most of America still left is get back to work you slacker. If you're interested in hurricanes, their formation, and driving factors this novel is worth the read for that alone.

5 out of 5 stars The book that got me hooked on John Barnes.......2006-07-21

This was the first book I ever read by John Barnes. Since then I have been hooked on his books. Unfortunately his books are very hard to find here in NZ, but still I managed to accumulate most over the years.
I recently re re-read this book just to see why I loved it so much.

Barnes has a very fluid style in his books and this is no exception. As it is deals with weather disaster theory it is kinda close to home. In this book internet has taken on a whole new meaning with XV. He highlights what it can do and also what harm can be done to the human psyche by it. He shows to what things some scum will go for their pleasure.
The world order has changed, partially due to social unrest partially due to the fact it always changes. Problems start by an unprecedented release of methane into the air. A process that has dire consequences faraway from were the bomb exploded. Super hurricanes form. Devastating entire islands. Barnes weaves in small story lines unrelated to the main characters to illustrate what is happening at ground level and the extend of what is happening.

In between all this destruction he finds room to develop love story lines. Some are doomed some are not Some take a take a very strange turn. One of the story lines between Carla and Louis Tynan can be seen as a precursor to the meme storyline he develops in later books.
The book does not really have a happy ending, more an ending of hope that closure.

I love this book because it weaves well it is a complete book. The whole picture is painted in all it's gory and pretty details. In all it's details it shows a plausible story, something that could happen because we (the human race) are stupid enough to make the mistakes he explores.

3 out of 5 stars Mainstream SF.......2003-09-13

Looking at reviews of other John Barnes books, it seems as though reviewers can't write three sentences without invoking Robert Heinlein's name, as in "Barnes continues in the vein of..." or "Writing in the spirit of...". Interestingly for this novel, Barnes has cast aside his +5 Mantle of Robert Heinlein and is instead channeling Greg Bear.

Just as in most of Greg Bear's books (such as "Blood Music", "Slant" and "Darwin's Radio") Barnes' tale presents us with a bevy of characters confronted with a looming crisis who are affected by it in different personal ways. Story threads featuring the President, a nervy reporter, the Astronaut, a college student and a Porn Star are thrown at the reader. ("Slant" had most of these, including the Porn Star.)

Often, these story threads intersect. Will the college student meet the Porn Star? Will the Porn Star meet the President? Are the President and the Astronaut star-crossed lovers? (Yes, Yes, and thankfully, No.)

Barnes' strength appears to be in building interesting, internally consistent and plausible worlds. The "device" for this book is XV. XV is like TV, but for your brain. Just plug in and feel what others are feeling. Apparently, this is a wonderful way to sustain a world-wide riot.

For the hard-SF crowd, the book picks up in the middle with computer-brain interfaces leading to Metaphysical Problems of the Self. But I think that this pushes the final portion of the book into metaphysical gobbledygook, making the ending a bit of an anticlimax.

The brisk pacing of the book makes it hard to put down, which makes for good beach reading. I only wish that the ending had more punch.

3 out of 5 stars weather and disaster go together!.......2003-04-08

This story starts a little too slowly for me. The real action begins at about one third of the book. However, I learned a good deal on weather patterns. The most interesting event is the joining of human and computer. It is very originally presented. The technology in this world is convincing.
Characters are the usual: industrialist, president and aides, astronaut; an exception here is a XV porn star.
Humanity is not wiped out but is given a wakeup call. I suggest this book to everybody who likes this author and disaster novels mixed with science, in this case, meteorology. Not a ground breaking novel but very good in its genre.
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    A House by the River
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    5 out of 5 stars Great Story about a Flood.......2000-03-29

    I read this book for one of my classes at school. I really enjoyed reading the book, because the area I live in has floods at least once a year. After I read the book to my students, it really hit home to them. Most of them has gone through what the girl and her mother has gone through.
    The House of Storms
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Magisterial and bittersweet, but slow moving, not quite as good as its predecessor
    • A long, disjointed read
    • somewhat weak 4 due to weaker second half
    • Part social critique, part adventure
    • special blending of sorcery and alternate history
    The House of Storms
    Ian R. MacLeod
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    To save her only son from the ravages of consumption, the great-grandmistress of the Telegraphers Guild, Alice Meynell, has made a bargain with her former lover-a changeling in the land of Einfell-to do whatever is necessary to cure him.

    Once healthy, her son is torn between his duty to lead the guild and his love for a servant girl. But Alice has chosen her son's destiny. And she'll see him achieve it even if it means bringing the Age of Light to an end.

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    4 out of 5 stars Magisterial and bittersweet, but slow moving, not quite as good as its predecessor.......2006-05-21

    Ian R. MacLeod's The Light Ages was one of the best novels of 2003, depicting an alternate England in which the magical substance aether is used for all sorts of industrial purposes. That novel portrayed a shift to a slightly more technological age. The House of Storms is set some decades in its future, and the world seems ready to transition to yet another "age".

    Alice Meynell is a scheming Greatgrandmistress of the Telegrapher's Guild. She brings her ailing son Ralph to the manor Inverhome, near Bristol, and he is miraculously cured. Ralph falls in love with Marion Price, a local shoregirl, while Alice continues her lifelong plotting. At the same time tensions are rising between the more rural, and slaveholding, West, represented by Bristol; and the more urban East, represented by London.

    Neither Ralph nor Marion recognizes the baleful influence of Alice on their future, as they end up on opposite sides of the inevitable Civil War. But they had a son, spirited away by Alice, and he and his friends, a group of aether-altered Changelings, may be the key to a true new Age, and to some sort of resolution of the tensions between East and West.

    The story is beautifully written and emotionally involving, as we expect from MacLeod. It is also slow-moving. And to some extent the plot developments are a bit cliché: not just the echoes of the American Civil War, but also the roles taken on by Ralph and Marion, who are respectively sort of Charles Darwin and Florence Nightingale. Still, by the end an unexpected conclusion is reached, magisterial and bittersweet and darkly moving. I'm not sure the novel as a whole is quite sufficiently in service of its ends - perhaps it is too long, or too diffuse - but it remains a lovely and powerful work.

    3 out of 5 stars A long, disjointed read.......2006-01-20

    This is the first book by Ian R. MacLeod I have read. The above reviews refer to The Light Ages, but say it is not necessary. Maybe it is, I for one had a difficult time following Mr. MacLeod's ramblings. The first part of the book deals with Alice, Ralph and Marion. I found the varying references between Victorian age and the sci-fi world confusing. There is magic to keep Alice young yet Marion's sister's main wish is for tooth paste. While the main characters are developed they are forced to stand alone as Mr. MacLeod developes no secondary ones so when the second part of the book begins it is weak.
    The book overall followings the sci-fi formula. No surpises nor characters that make you root for the good guys.

    4 out of 5 stars somewhat weak 4 due to weaker second half.......2005-08-18

    The House of Storms takes place roughly a century or so and in the same world as MacLeod's The Light Ages. Though it could therefore be called a sequel, one needn't have read The Light Ages to jump into House of Storms, as the characters and the culture aren't quite the same. House of Storms is not as strong as the first book, though like Light Ages it has fully developed vivid characters; a slow, methodical pace; a complex plot, a balanced look at the "good" and "bad" guys; and lush, poetic language. It didn't, however, maintain these strengths quite as consistently as Light Ages did, creating I thought a noticeable flagging in the second half of the book.
    The novel is set in a sort of late-Victorian era England where magic (in the form of aether) and technology work side by side. England is controlled by a small group of guilds, the most dominant one of which is the Telegraphers' Guild. Alice Meynell is the current Greatgrandmistress of the Guild, a position she's achieved despite her low background through using sex (her husband is the Grandmaster), magic (she's a darkly proficient adept of aether), and the not-so-infrequent murder. At the book's start, neither her magic nor social position however can do anything to save her consumptive son Ralph, who stands to inherit control of the Guild. To save him she makes a bargain with a group of Changed (names so for the effect of a too-great exposure to magical aether). With his recovery she returns to plotting Ralph's (and thus her) rise to power, along with increasing the fortunes of the Telegraphers' Guild, refusing to be deterred by Ralph's love for a common "shoregirl" named Marion Price or his increasing interest in natural science and his burgeoning theory of evolution.
    The first half of the book deals with these plot points and more, while the second half swerves into a civil war between England's East and West (partly economic, partly over slavery, along with other reasons--including some directly tied to Alice). In the war, Ralph as head of his Guild becomes a general while Marion turns into the Florence Nightingale of the other side. Armies march, society is turned over, the countryside razed, all while Alice continues to plot and manipulate and Ralph and Marion move closer and closer to a reconnection.
    As mentioned, I thought the book's first half stronger than its second. The war sections seemed more diffuse and disjointed, less solidly set up and fleshed out. New characters were introduced, but not as successfully. And the ending seemed somewhat anticlimactic. That said, though Storms didn't match the brilliance of Light Ages (a tough task anyway), there's quite a lot to like here, beginning with the list of shared strengths listed in the first paragraph of this review. And the book is almost worth reading for Alice herself, a character you almost can't help reveling in despite (or perhaps because of) her murderous single-minded drive. Recommended therefore for Alice, along with its many other strengths of character and prose, though with a wisp of disappointment.

    4 out of 5 stars Part social critique, part adventure.......2005-06-02

    House of Storms is the loose sequel to The Light Ages. Loose, because it takes place chronologically after the first book but with a different cast of characters. At the core of the novel is a bizarre love triangle between Alice Maynell, the mother who ruthlessly climbed her way to the top of the social ladder, Ralph, her son who is thrust into a position of power, and Marion Price, a fisherman's daughter who steals Ralph's heart. As events progress, Ralph and Marion go their separate ways and find themselves on either side of a class war brought about in part through Alice's political maneuvering.
    The book is split into two parts, dealing with Ralph's youth and relationship with Marion, and years later the final stages of the war enveloping the East and West of Ian MacLeod's fictional Britain. I felt that the first half of the story was the stronger of the two as there was more development of the characters and better dialogue. The second half was more disjointed and lacked some of the charm of the first half.

    It may be my lack of a British perspective but alot of the social themes were not clear to me. As with Light Ages, the overarching message was that despite changes the status quo stays the same. Perhaps someone with more experience with the British class system will take more away from the novel. That said, the story stands on its own and is an enjoyable if slightly overlong read.

    As a final note, magic or aether as it is referred to in the novel plays a central role here as it did in The Light Ages and is creatively integrated into the storyline.

    5 out of 5 stars special blending of sorcery and alternate history.......2005-04-27

    On an alternate earth, the fifth form of matter, aether is discovered. This element is used in magic spells to run machinery and electricity and just about anything else one can think of. The guilds control the supply of aether and no one is more powerful than Alice Meynell, the Greatgrandmistress of the Telegrapher's Guild. Her only son Ralph is dying and she takes him to Invercombe on the west coast of England in the hopes that exercise and clear air will cure his consumption.

    While there she visits Einfell where people are no longer human because they were changed by the overuse of magic. When she returns, her son Ralph is cured so she leaves him at Invercombe while she returns to London to set in motion plans that will give more power to her and her son. The result of her scheming leads to a civil war that will affect the lives of everyone living in Victorian England.

    This is a thick and juicy alternate history novel that is set in a Victorian England where everyone is dependant on magic like oil is in our world. Alice does what she must to get and keep her position no matter who she hurts. Her only weakness is her son who turns out to be under his mother's thumb when he takes over the position of Greatguildmaster once held by his dead father. Ian R. Macleod continues to fascinate readers with his special blending of sorcery and alternate history.

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    Storm of Terror: A Hebron Mother's Diary
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    Storm of Terror: A Hebron Mother's Diary
    June Leavitt
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    Leavitt has written a disturbingly candid diary of 18 months of the Intifada in Israel, recording the appalling events that were happening around her. She has had to raise a family of witnesses to gunnings, suicide bombers, failed peace processes, and the escalation of Arab terrorism. The real power of the narrative is in its honesty. --Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. A moving and beautifully written family portrait of the complexity, the humanity, the danger of everyday settler life on the West Bank. --The New York Times

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    5 out of 5 stars compelling snapshot.......2003-02-10

    Reviewed by Samuel G. Freedman in Moment Magazine

    The settlement of Israelis on the West Bank, with all of its idealism and bloodshed, all of its messianism and domination, is in many ways the story of Hebron. It was there that an Arab pogrom in 1929 ended centuries of Jewish presence. It was there, in the aftermath of the Six Day War, that the celebrants of a Passover seder declared their return. It was there, and in neighboring Kiryat Arba, that the most controversial figures made their homesýRabbi Moshe Levinger, one of the founders of Gush Emunim; Meir Kahane, exponent of Arab expulsion; Baruch Goldstein, the beloved doctor turned mass murderer at the Machpelah.

    Against such a backdrop, one reads June Leavittýs Storm of Terror not simply as a first-person account of death, fear, and resilience amid the Al-Aqsa Intifada, but more broadly as an intimate portrait of daily life among the believers. Although she is a professional journalist, Leavitt consciously identifies herself in the bookýs subtitle as a mother. Indeed, this book achieves its most intense and revealing moments because she resolutely stays with the daily details. At the same time, however, this slender volume comes with the shortcomings endemic to publishing a diary.

    In much of Israel, to say nothing of an often-hateful outside world, the settlers of Hebron and Kiryat Arba stand as pariahs, fanatics who obstructed peace when it seemed imminent and who stretch the army dangerously thin to defend them in wartime. The greatest accomplishment of Storm of Terror, then, comes in Leavittýs ability to defy or at least muddy the harsh clarity of such stereotyping. She herself is as much a creation of ý60s counterculture as of Greater Israel ideology, a woman who reads tarot cards, does yoga, met her future husband on a hiking trail in Vermont, and, yes, considers Judea and Samaria to be Jewish property by divine covenant.

    Fascinating fault lines run through her household, as well. Two of Leavittýs sons help build an illegal settlement to mark the spot where a friend was ambushed and slain by Palestinians. One of her daughters, Miriam, is ýultraorthodox and fanatically right wing,ý while another, Estie, is a land-for-peace liberal with a pierced navel. At several searing moments in the book, the two daughters find themselves on opposite sides of violent confrontationsýEstie with her army unit, Miriam with protesting settlers. Leavittýs husband has veered over the years from deep involvement with the Moledet Party, which favored ousting Arabs from the West Bank, to meeting with Palestinian Authority leaders to plan for Hebron and Kiryat Arba to remain Jewish communities within an independent Palestine. How unexpectedly poignant is that moment of long-lost possibility.

    In ways Leavitt probably never intended, though, her book displays the settler psyche. By her telling, for instance, the Oslo accords ruined the companionable relations between the Hebron areaýs Arabs and Jews, as if Palestinian nationalism had not been a roiling force for decades by then. She approvingly quotes an Arab telling a Jewish settler, ýWe would have been your serfs ý but what did you do? You said this land was ours ý Why couldnýt you understand the Arab mentality? We admire fierceness and strength! We see goodwill as weakness.ý

    By its very nature, a diary freezes each such encounter in its moment. This immediacy brings Storm of Terror the documentary impact of a snapshot; the book recounts events as recent as the suicide bombing in Netanya last Passover. But a published diaryýanyoneýsýby definition deprives the author and the reader of a more considered, more self-consciously crafted, version of reality. And, precisely because Storm of Terror affords such an unanticipated window into the settler experience by such an idiosyncratic narrator, one hopes that next time June Leavitt will use her diary as the raw material, not the finished product.

    Samuel G. Freedman, associate dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is the author most recently of Jew vs. JewýThe Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry.
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            5 out of 5 stars A Must Read.......1999-04-13

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            ASIN: 0062503162

            Book Description

            Teacher and mystic Joel Goldsmith's most advanced teachings on how to live more spiritually are collected here.

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars Amazing Grace! Amazing Life! Amazing Life by Grace!.......2000-10-01

            There is always an alternative to the human condition. Many people go through their individual lives living and laboring under the law of karma (causation). But Joel Goldsmith presents us with the genuine alternative in his mystical teaching, The Infinite Way; this is to live "life by grace" -- the grace of spiritual consciousness.

            In this title, Joel instructs us how we can live by Spirit's grace. By maintaining a consciousness steeped in Truth in contemplating the letter of Truth and in silent meditation, one is brought into the fourth dimensional realm of the Spirit. When life is lived daily in the consciousness of God's presence, one permits the activity of grace in consciousness. This translates in the human experience as our perfect good that comes to us without the difficulties and anxieties typical of the human condition.

            The book is highly recommended to anyone aspiring to live a life by grace in the presence of God!
            Living by Grace: The Path to Inner Discovery
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              Living by Grace: The Path to Inner Discovery
              Joel S. Goldsmith
              Manufacturer: HarperSanFrancisco
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback
              ASIN: B000OF246E

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