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“A nightmare, long engendered in the modern mind by the mythology that follows in the wake of science, was falling off him. He had read of 'Space': at the back of his thinking for years had lurked the dismal fancy of the black, cold vacuity, the utter deadness, which was supposed to separate the worlds. He had not known how much it affected him till now-now that the very name 'Space' seemed a blasphemous libel for this empyrean ocean of radiance in which they swam. He could not call it 'dead'
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Mitchell Friedman
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Whatever. Another book to be discussed at Sasquan. Certainly this one is well known and well thought of by some. I've often heard this and the Narnia books of C. S. Lewis described as great works of Christian fiction and as allegories - neither of which are reasons I would seek them out. What I found in this one was a book lacking in story and plot and real characters. The science was stupid and wrong. The aliens and their world (Mars) nonsensical. There was a bit of philosophizing here and ther
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The characters fell a little flat, but this drew me into a magical world full of fascinating concepts, intriguing philosophies, and wild spectacles.
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