Standing Wave
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
What was the light that mazed every mind's eye? What has brought a flying mountain top home from the stars, and sent investigators into the orbital habitats floating above Earth? How is this connected to a "living fossil" fungus--or to a dead madman--or to the fate of the planet? Whoever discovers the answers to these questions--FIRST!--will decide the ultimate fate of the Earth--and all humanity! An imaginative tour de force.
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In this mind-bending follow-up to Lightpaths, Hendrix sets existential philosophy on a collision course with quantum physics, presenting a 21st-century world in which the line between artificial intelligence and consciousness, between information and matter, has become so teased that the universe is about to have a space-time identity crisis. A host of characters are searching for a cyberspace murderer and seeking to understand recent mysterious cosmological occurrences. Hendrix extrapolates current social, political, and environmental conditions seamlessly into this future, but his discussions of scientific theory will many readers circling dangerously close to their own "information density singularity." Dialogue consists mainly of characters trying to explain the inexplicable: "The noosphere is becoming involuted into what Teilhard called a Hyperpersonal Consciousness... Matter and consciousness will reach the terminal phase of their convergent integration and become one." It also doesn't help that events and concepts are often explained long after initial references to them have befuddled readers. Still, Hendrix's postulation that "Everything happens twice--first as theology, then as technology" is compelling and worth the struggle to keep up with him.
