Gravity Dreams

I came across this book while serving as a trusty in the local county jail. I saw how the current trusty’s treated the jail library and it was painful. I got the job and instantly went to work sorting and classifying what we had. The majority of our options neatly fell into two categories: Religious Propaganda/AA or Supernatural Romance. I͎ sorted to ensure that when I͎ took the library cart around every Sunday all m͎y͎ little incarce-🅡︎🅔︎🅐︎🅓︎🅔︎🅡︎🅢︎ had exposure to other genres. Of course this meant I had first and exclusive access to all the sci-fi and fantastic fiction available. It was about that time that I found Gravity Dreams.

I sincerely did not know what I was getting into. This novel affords you a perspective concerning individual impact on a galactic society scale. Ol LEMode creates a viable and logical solution to a problem that simply doesn’t exist today. How do you limit the sometimes significant collateral damage caused by beings whose bodies have been flooded with nanobots capable of healing, repairing, mending, enhancing, etc their bodies and vital organs on the fly? Soon it was tragically apparent that those very same people were prone to take incredibly dangerous risks that failed and ended up draining society as a whole. To solve this they created a system that served as a deposit. This deposit was paid directly to the benefit of the galactic society in the form of service work, space station tech, mining colony, border patrol, waste management, mundane clerical; the list is vast. That really just resonated with me.

Aside from that; the protagonist’s violent journey from fundamentalist technophobe (via the sus introduction of nanites INTO his body) into being on the run from his former brethren for becoming the demon they hate has such poetic justice to it. He makes it to the next country where LO AND BEHOLD OUR ROBOT BOY HERE APPARENTLY BELONGED THIS UNI’S VERSION OF INTERGALACTIC MENNONITES because this next society is like, doing FTL travel and like…. Those poor ignorant souls. All because they were born into that ideology children were fed it, never learned different. Turns out ya boi got that special sumthin sumthin that makes him one of the few beings capable of piloting their FTL ships. Something about ‘threading the needle’ and ‘ jumping the gap/gap jumpers’’ these rare souls can like “see" the gap in the collapsing space time idk i don’t remember. it was 11 years ago...Anyway I digress. I definitely feel some parallels to another dearly beloved book 𝘴𝓽𝘳ꪖꪀᧁꫀ𝘳 𝓲ꪀ ꪖ 𝘴𝓽𝘳ꪖꪀᧁꫀ ꪶꪖꪀᦔ. Our boy also has to integrate into a society that left his single thread wearin butt in the past. It is an amazingly effective tool that enables the author to explore social mores, normality, morality, existentialism, nihilism… and innumerable more; with us, the reader. For this bibliophile, this is our favorite perspective used to explore the validity of long held established norms and to challenge them from an honest and mostly uncorrupted standpoint. I gotta give Modessit some pogs for delivering an experience that while reminiscent of 𝘴𝓽𝘳ꪖꪀᧁꫀ𝘳, is uniquely all its own. Read it. Let your preconceptions be rattled.

Anytime I have the chance I recommend this book to other readers. There are very few books on my “Always recommend List”

One of his greatest works. I was skeptical of it being in first person the first several pages but it was does right, which is hard to accomplish.