Light Music - Softcover

Goonan, Kathleen Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380803518 ISBN 13: 9780380803514

Publisher: Eos, 2003

Synopsis

In a concluding volume to the Nanotech Quartet, people begin vanishing in the wake of unearthly lights, and Jason Peabody, one of the few people who remember the Internet and accompanied by the resilient Dania, makes a startling discovery that prompts him to investigate the disappearances. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

"(a) distinctive blend of lyrical language and over-the-top plotting . . (a) sprawling, ambitious, multifaceted novel." -- The New York Times Book Review, July 8, 2002

"A different ‘sense of wonder’ novel...about the changes that revolutionize the Earth in the wake of the nanotechnological revolution." -- Orlando Sentinal

"A forceful and compelling novel...a genuinely intellectual sequel that expands on ideas more than on plotlines." -- LOCUS

"This classic novel of ideas, with state-of-the-art technology as its subject, remains the work of a powerful imagination with a superior command of language." -- Publisher's Weekly

"[A] talented writer....Goonan skillfully weaves...tales in lively, accessible prose that will keep even science-illiterate readers engrossed." -- The Boston Herald

From the Author:

LIGHT MUSIC concludes my Nanotech Quartet in a way that I hope will surprise and delight my readers.

In the several years I worked on it, I studied Brian Greene's wonderful book on superstring theory, THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE, and used a quote from it in the frontspiece of LM: "With the discovery of superstring theory, musical metaphors take on startling reality . . . " I have tried to make that realization live in the characters and events in LIGHT MUSIC. I also used, extensively, the ideas in EO Wilson's CONSILIENCE, Evan Walker's THE PHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, and Julian Barvour's THE END OF TIME.

After I was finished with the novel, I was invited to contribute to the Journal of Consciousness Studies' forthcoming issue on Literature and Consciousness, so I put all the previous information to good use.

Most of all, I hope that I have written a beautiful, powerful, and entertaining novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eos
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0380803518
• ISBN 13: 9780380803514
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback