Lee Willard

Tangle in the Dark (The Vogages of Gordon's Lamp, #5) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the hardest science fiction in the Gordon's Lamp series. Quantum entanglement, dark matter, Bose-Einstein condensates and quantum computing all figure heavily in this story. Gordon's Lamp is returning from 61 Cygni, their data corrupted by a crewman's hack, their mission to seed the planet with mortal humans thwarted by the biodisaster the planet had become, their chance of Angel colonization thwarted by the lack of exploitable resources. While en route, war breaks out between mortals, lead by Brazil, and simulates, lead by Heavenly Talstan. The war was triggered by data they know to be false, data fabricated by their own crewman, Alan Larkin.

In spite of that, the war is going badly, mortals have been bombed to barbarism, and now all simulated humans in the Afterlife are being targeted by comets from deep space, comets that can only be a Brazilian doomsday device in the outer reaches of the solar system. Even though Gordon's Lamp is an unarmed exploration and colony ship, they are pressed into service to fight that doomsday device, even if it is guarded by Chinese or Brazilian warships.

Then one of their crewmen makes scientific discoveries in the dark matter beyond the solar system that may be the key to the weapon system that is destroying their civilization. As the enemy warship closes in, an enemy agent enters the ship. The fleet of all known starships is small, they should be able to identify their pursuer from its drive signature, giving them a chance to track down that agent. While attempting to track that agent, their System's Administrator, Ava Bancour, is lost, and the only one aboard with the skills to get her back may be Alan, the hacker who started this war.

Prior readers have called this the best look at simulated humans they've ever seen, the most different alien they've ever seen (or is it a feral OS?) and the best look at ancient Atlantis they've ever seen. Some have also wondered why there is so much sexuality in it and why simulated humans would bring all their sins with them. The whole story happens in the afterlife and the real conflict of the story is between competing versions of the afterlife. Both are fictional, one may be possible, one is probable in our future, probably sooner than I've timed it. There are other visions of the afterlife in many other stories. The real point is, how we tell which one is real.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lee Willard
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005535513
• Artikelnr.: 72788218

Autorenporträt

I am a retired embedded systems engineer and sci-fi hobbyist from Hartford. Most of my stories concern Kassidor, 'The planet the hippies came from' which I have used to examine subjects like: What would it take to make the hippy lifestyle real? How would extended lifespans affect society? What could happen if we outlive our memories? How can murder be committed when violence is impossible?

I have recently discovered that someone new to science fiction should start their exploration of Kassidor with the Second Expedition trilogy. To the mainstream fiction reader the alien names of people, places and things can be confusing. This series has a little more explanation of the differences between Kassidor and Earth. In all of the Kassidor stories you will notice the people do not act like ordinary humans but like flower children from the 60's. It is not until Zhlindu that the actual modifications made to human nature to make them act that way are spelled out. To aide that understanding I've made The Second Expedition free.

I am not a fan of violence and dystopia. I believe that sci-fi does not just predict the future, but helps create the future because we sci-fi writers show our readers what the future will be and the readers go out and create it. I believe that the current fad of constant dystopia and mega-violence in sci-fi today is helping to create that world, and I mention that often in reviews and comments on the books I read. I also believe that the characters in those stories who are completely free of any affection are at least as unnatural as the modified humans of Kassidor.

In my reviews, * = couldn't finish it. ** = Don't bother with it. *** = good story worth reading. **** = great and memorable story. ***** = Worth a Hugo.