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Neon Lotus
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Marc Laidlaw
Dana
, September 14, 2007
It is hard to describe Neon Lotus without spoilers, because the ending is where all the cool stuff happens. The rest of the book is a slightly flat quest-type adventure that takes the hero and heroine all over Tibet without ever quite engaging the reader fully. It's beautifully written, though; perhaps the reader's detachment is an intentional shadow of the greater detachment sought by Buddhists. I was reminded of Greg Bear's work -- I wanted to know what happened next but didn't particularly care what it would be. At least Laidlaw keeps it moving right along, though. It reads like a standard good vs. evil adventure, set in the Tibet of the next century instead of a fantasy world and with inexplicable technology replacing the magic. Then in the last chapter I hit the first typo, the first awkward phrase, and perhaps the most delightful reversal of all expectations I've ever read.
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Rider At The Gate
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C J Cherryh
Dana
, September 05, 2007
This is a sort of sci-fi/western fusion; bet you thought that couldn't be done, except in the sense of space opera also being about exploring frontiers. Well, this is guns and horses, except the horses are telepathic creatures who, luckily for the colonists, happen to find human minds fascinating -- not necessarily intelligible, but fascinating all the same. The setting is a "lost" frontier world full of telepathic creatures of various levels of intelligence and agression. The wildlife's attraction to things like transmitters has limited the human colonists' technological resources and made the riders who understand and can work with the horses against other native beings indispensible guardians for anyone crossing the wilderness (oh, and damned sinners, BTW). In true C.J. Cherryh form, the aliens are far from the usual humans-dressed-as, and the humans at the interface are themselves nearly incomprehensible to the mainstream.
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Pagans & Christians The Personal Spiritual Experience
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Gus Dizerega
Dana
, September 25, 2006
The world needs this book. Very accessible, it is written for the non-scholar but with solid, scholarly ideas to present: an easy read, but not a fluffy one. This is one of the few books I have found that really discusses pagan theology. Although the book's focus is to help Christians understand and accept the pagans (and to an extent other non-Christians) around them, the comparison with Christianity will help pagans with a Christian background to both understand their new religion and regain respect for their old one. Dr. DiZerega takes up some controversial points, but the emphasis is on how the two religions are similar and can coexist. He finds only one issue where there cannot be agreement -- that of the exclusivity of Christianity -- and makes what I think is a strong argument that this concept actually runs counter to Christian tenets. If you're a Christian, read it and make peace with your neighbors. If you're a pagan, read it and then pass it around to everyone who cares about you.
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