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A recommended pick for prior fans.......2007-08-04
Travis S. Taylor's QUANTUM CONNECTION provides a sequel to WARP SPEED and is a recommended pick for prior fans. Steven is a computer whiz in college when a swarm of huge meteors falls across the world, killing his friends and family. A new world is created - and Steven becomes privy to the information that this new order also includes a new war.
A good Sci-Fi read with a heart!.......2006-11-22
Doc Taylor's second novel, "The Quantum Connection" follows on in the same world created by Taylor in "Warp Speed". This time however, the novel doesn't center around Dr. Clemons and his associates, instead Taylor introduces the reader to Steven Montana, a character who's life was profoundly changed by the events in the first book although we never new he existed in the first story.
Taylor shows Steven as a very human character. He's a computer geek who finds that his whole family and all his friends have died as a result of a rain of meteors that killed millions around the world (readers of "Warp Speed" know the real story there). The first third of the book follows Steven's ups and downs as he deals with this, with life and finally with a great opportunity to work for a government think tank reverse engineering foreign and sometimes possibly alien technologies.
The relationship between Steven and his dog, Lazarus, is one of the most interesting and touching parts of this novel. There are two kinds of dog owners in the world, ones for whom the dog becomes one of the family, and those for whom the dog is just another possession. Lazarus becomes Steven's only family, and a stabilizing force for him as he deals with erratic mood swings that the doctors tell him are part of dealing with his tremendous loss. Taylor's story uses the relationship between Steven and Lazarus as an underlying influence that helps guide Steven's actions and it allows the reader to understand his actions when tragedy does strike.
Of course at this point the novel sounds more like "Old Yeller" than a sci-fi action story, but the build up of Steven's relationship with Lazarus is important to this story. Taylor blends this element neatly into the plot right along with the aliens, super-technology, action and adventure that the book's cover art suggests. The move into the "meat" of the story is actually quite sudden as the book shifts gears radically with the introduction of the before mentioned aliens and more advanced technology. This also leads to Steven's introduction to Tatiana, a young daughter of a Russian diplomat to the U.N. who is in almost the same situation. Their relationship provides the impetus for emotional growth that all the high-tech cannot.
As has become a trademark with Taylor's work, the technology becomes a driving force in the story. Unlike "Warp Speed" which focused on the possibilities of faster than light travel, the technical focus in "The Quantum Connection" is nano-technology and the theory of the quantum connection (hence the title of the book) between all things. Taylor brings the reader into these concepts through Steven's own process of discovery and as the human's understanding of the alien technology expands, so does the reader's understanding of the underlying concepts behind it.
I'm not big on giving away a lot of the story, you should read the book for that! But I will say that some of the most interesting scenes in the book involve the interaction between Steven and Tatiana and the principle characters from "Warp Speed" as the desire to protect Earth from an alien threat brings them together. The initial meeting is fraught with misunderstanding since Steven and Tatiana are using alien technology and another high speed battle ensues that lays waste to a good portion of Earth's moon base before it is all resolved.
Taylor's blend of imaginative characters, technology, and an optimistic view of humanity's potential make for a very good read. There is plenty of action and suspense to keep you turning the pages, but in the end the thing that makes "The Quantum Connection" stand out is not the science (and oddly enough, I do feel smarter for having read the book), it's not the action and adventure; it's the story of Steven and his dog Lazarus. Many times it is the simplest things that have the most profound affects on a person and in this case one could say that it was a man's love for his dog that saved the world. I recommend you check out "The Quantum Connection" for yourself and see what I mean.
This puerule SF reader loved it........2006-09-25
Of course it is just comic-book mind candy. But it does so very well.
Hope there is no sequel? Then why is super-bad-guy Lex Luther (excuse me, Opolawn) not destroyed, but only isolated for a while?
I read this one without reading Warp Speed. I was about 100 pages into it and suddenly laughed out loud. This IS a great revival of the EE Smith genre. I say that as one who started reading SF when the mag covers were always a scanty clad human female in the grip of a BEM. I have not actually read Doc Smith in at least 40 years.
Lots of psudo-science lectures interspersed with comic-book super-hero action. Of course the superhero begins as a fat, depressed nerd stranded in delayed adolesence. Once he learns how to say SHAZAM! (communicate with the alien computer) all with be made right, including a set of six-pack abs. This too is a part of the proto-story.
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While from a certain perspective this novel makes for good brains-on-vacation reading, I have to express disappointment that Taylor doesn't explain how the super-technologically advanced aliens he imagined never understood the full potentials of the stuff they invented, apparently centuries or millennia ago, whereas his slacker human hero, the smart but not genius-level Steven Montana, could grasp them in short order. I would have found it helpful if a character conjectured something along the lines that technological species don't necessarily develop universally competent intelligence, but instead display differing abilities based on the problems they had to solve in their respective evolutionary histories. They can seem really smart in some areas and dumb in other areas, in other words. Otherwise how do you account for the fact that the Grey aliens didn't have firewalls against hackers and don't go around with AI-augmented and nanotech-hardened bodies?
The leader of the other advanced alien species could at least put up a real fight in bodily combat against enhanced humans, but Montana admits that the rumble resembled the comic-book battle between Superman and Doomsday. It just solves way too many problems for humanity when the upgraded Montana and his Russian girlfriend show up on the moon base and turn some of the characters from Taylor's previous novel, "Warp Speed," into Green Lantern-like superheroes, with the added bonus that they no longer experience aging.
I would also add that I didn't care for the vengeance fantasies in both novels. Taylor apparently suffers from the white Southerner's irrational touchiness about "honor," and he feels the need to have his characters take out his anger on both evil foreigners and meddling aliens.
In the Classic HARD SF Mode - Doc does it again!.......2006-02-10
In Warp Speed, Doc Travis presented us with a look into quantum physics and the AMAZING potentials it has in a stupendous ride of a story. In Quantum Connection, we get an additional look - with more possibilities. Super Science that could be happening tomorrow (or even today in a "black project"? - hmmmm, could be..?) We see the events of "warp speed" through a different perspective, and then it is kicked up a notch.
First and foremost - in this reviewer's opinion - ALL good science fiction most hold together logically. Quantum Connection does that quite well. Second, good science fiction has to have a story line that holds my interest - Quantum Connection did that VERY well. Third, good science fiction has to have characters that I can cheer for and/or identify with - once again Quantum Connection does this quite nicely. All "geeks" and "nerds" out there (myself included) can identify with the protaganist. I was wondering how it tied into "Warp Speed" at first, but trust me - it does.
I won't reiterate the story, reviewers before have done it well (in the multi-star reviews).
Again, as in "Warp Speed" this story is about BIG men and women doing larger than life things for the ones they love and for mankind as a whole. It begins in one man's private hell of a world - not of his own doing, as we find out - and ends with a challenge to the universe of "Don't Tread On US Humans".
If you are a liberal you WILL NOT like this story. If you are a person who thinks that aliens will land and "come in peace" to bring us the cure for cancer - you WILL NOT like this story. If you think the old story "To Serve Man" is as likely as "The Day the Earth Stood Still", then you will like it. (Don't know the reference? Go back and take Science Fiction 101 again). As in the reviews for Warp Speed", the "one star" reviews seem to be either politically based or from people who don't want to really think about science (in this old curmudgeon's opinion). In short, I loved it and am looking for the series to continue.
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The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed in science during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an essentially mindless conception: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with our conscious experiences entering only passively. During the twentieth century the classical concepts were found to be inadequate. In the new theory, quantum mechanics, our conscious experiences enter into the dynamics in specified ways not fixed by the physically described aspects alone. Consequences of this radical change in our understanding of the connection between mind and brain are described.
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This book is about the new sciences, a group of scientific theories that not only caught the attention of the natural scientists but also found some resonance in the social sciences. Arguably, the new sciences are symptomatic of a paradigmatic shift in sciences, or at least they represent a serious collective questioning of the fundamental philosophical assumptions and methodology of the Western, classical, modern, and positivistic science. The question we want to explore in this volume is whether and how the implications of chaos/complexity, second-order cybernetics, and quantum theories are relevant to the study of public administration and policy.
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The birth of an academic discipline is a rare event. Even more extraordinary is academia's acknowledgment that spirituality has scholarly as well as personal dimensions. Inquiry and dialogue are the essence of this new discipline, as it paves the way toward a deeper understanding of what it means to be human within the Christian faith.
The twenty-five essays in this volume, originally published in either the Christian Spirituality Bulletin or Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, offer groundbreaking explorations of Christian spirituality. Arranged under five broad headings, these essays create an insightful dialogue on the questions, methods, and critical approaches implemented by the discipline's top scholars. Topics addressed include the particular intellectual and methodological challenges presented by spirituality as an academic discipline, the self-implicating nature of the study of spirituality, historical perspectives, theological implications, healing as a function of spirituality, and the relationship between aesthetics and spirituality -- art and spirit.
Scholars working on either broad or focused themes in spirituality will benefit from this clear and accessible presentation of the salient aspects of the discipline. In their insight and historical and methodological content, these essays provide valuable tools for students and teachers of spirituality and related fields, in their insight and historical and methodological content. This volume speaks to all who practice and study spirituality from any religious or secular perspective, encouraging reflective and open dialogue with one of humanity's major religious traditions.
Contributors: J. Matthew Ashley, Thomas Berry, Mark S. Burrows, Douglas Burton-Christie, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Lisa E. Dahill, Elizabeth A. Dreyer, Mary Frohlich, Belden C. Lane, Elizabeth Liebert, E. Ann Matter, Bernard McGinn, Meredith B. McGuire, Mark McIntosh, Barbara Newman, Walter H. Principe, Don E. Saliers, Sandra M. Schneiders, Philip F. Sheldrake, Jon Sobrino, Wendy M. Wright
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All a Matter of Focus.......2006-04-27
While the previous reviewer makes many good points, I feel he would have saved himself a lot of frustration if he had first read the initial paragraph on the back cover of the book.
"The birth of an academic discipline is a rare event. Even more extraordinary is academia's acknowledgment that spirituality has scholarly as well as personal dimensions. Inquiry and dialogue are the essence of this new discipline . . . "
This text is geared to readers interested in the academic study of Christian Spirituality. As such I found it well constructed, moving from foundations and methods, to the self implicating nature of the study of spirituality, tradition, healing and aesthetics. Although the text was not in print when I pursued an STM in Christian Spirituality, it is my hope it will be used in such programs today
Spirituality from a narrow perspective........2005-07-12
Minding the Spirit is a collection of previously published articles that have been grouped by topic for the study of spirituality in the Christian tradition. This book is a bit of a disappointment. In general, the book is a polemic for the field of spirituality as an academic discipline especially at the graduate level. Key concerns are the definition of spirituality and the object and method of study. A few authors note Paul's use of spirit (pneuma) or spiritualities (pneumatikos) but most authors identify Christian spirituality with Christian experience.
The reader will quickly notice how little Scripture is used in this book. The few biblical passages cited are mostly illustrations from previous theologians (e.g. Origen, Augustine). The Scriptures are seen as the basis of Christian spirituality but most authors in this collection are quite vague about connecting spirituality and the Scriptures and some struggle with the role of the Scriptures. For example, Liebert views the psalms as a special case in the canon but the canon is a special case in Christian literature so any encountered text can become a living text, 94.
The struggle to merge historical concepts (traditions) and post-modern thinking is evident throughout the book. One example would be J. Matthew Ashley's statement challenging theologians to, "develop the conceptual tools to manifest the truth - or perhaps better to make the truth," 160.
This book will be of interest to those who are seeking to grasp the agenda of the post-modern university for spirituality as a discipline. It will not be of much help for any interested in a biblical or personal understanding of Christian spirituality or even those seeking a history of the topic. Yet, students of a theological mind would all profit from the chapter (article) by Elizabeth A. Dreyer on the Holy Spirit in Augustine. Though presented as being to a wide audience the book is decidedly Catholic in perspective with Karl Rahner being the modern theologian referenced by most authors. All in all it is a disappointing work on such a great topic!
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