Synopses & Reviews
In 3229 A.D., human civilization is scattered among the planets, moons, and asteroids of the solar system. Billions of lives depend on the technology derived from the breakthroughs of the greatest physicist of the age, Arthur Holywelkin. But in the last years of his life, Holywelkin devoted himself to building a strange, beautiful, and complex musical instrument that he called The Orchestra.
Johannes Wright has earned the honor of becoming the Ninth Master of Holywelkin's Orchestra. Follow him on his Grand Tour of the Solar System, as he journeys down the gravity well toward the sun, impelled by a destiny he can scarcely understand, and is pursued by mysterious foes who will tell him anything except the reason for their enmity.
Review
"Robinson creates an intellectual dessert, The Memory of Whiteness: physics, music and intrigue; an outre and improbably delicious world; wit and philosophy. A symphony of ideas!" Greg Bear
Synopsis
An early novel from Science Fiction legend Kim Stanley Robinson, The Memory of Whiteness is now available for the first time in decades.
In 3229 A.D., human civilization is scattered among the planets, moons, and asteroids of the solar system. Billions of lives depend on the technology derived from the breakthroughs of the greatest physicist of the age, Arthur Holywelkin. But in the last years of his life, Holywelkin devoted himself to building a strange, beautiful, and complex musical instrument that he called The Orchestra.
Johannes Wright has earned the honor of becoming the Ninth Master of Holywelkin's Orchestra. Follow him on his Grand Tour of the Solar System, as he journeys down the gravity well toward the sun, impelled by a destiny he can scarcely understand, and is pursued by mysterious foes who will tell him anything except the reason for their enmity.
About the Author
Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. A native Californian, he is the author of the Nebula Award-winning
Red Mars and several other highly regarded SF novels, including his acclaimed
Three Californias trilogy.
Table of Contents
Prelude The Visonary Awakes 9
Chapter One The Music of the Spheres 29
Chapter Two A Midsummer Night 62
Chapter Three Terra Incognita 92
Chapter Four Through the Discontinuity 123
Chapter Five The Sun on Olympus 160
Chapter Six Out of the Plane 186
Chapter Seven Mars the Planet of Peace 204
Chapter Eight Time Passes 251
Chapter Nine Mercury and Prometheus 295