They are all beautiful and that is the first (and sometimes the only) thing we learn about them. All of the ladies, with the exception of an elderly woman involved in the military who arrives at the end of the book, are described as bomb shells. All that is very well done and very entertaining. So we have this big sweeping back drop, all these interesting characters, various societies, religions, and politics, and the big looming mystery of the Void. Eventually, she becomes a pivotal character for the plot. Amarinta is involved in some lovely, hot sex scenes throughout the book. This is yet another group, another way of living, that I found interesting. And rightly so! This man has a shared consciousness among many, many bodies. She repeatedly comes into contact with the same man as she buys supplies. Yet they retain their individuality and can be uploaded into a physical body, should they choose to do so.Īmarinta, an ex-waitress who comes into a small inheritance, decides to refurbish her apartment, and perhaps a whole group of apartments in the hopes of selling them off. Basically, people have opted to have their minds downloaded into a virtual reality, ANA, and this conglomeration of minds rules. There’s the ANA (Advanced Neural Activity) which rules the Central Worlds. The story has so many different societies. In fact, some of them have gotten so good at gene manipulation over the generations, that they now trade docile working animals with neighboring cities for other goods. Also, some of these folks can manipulate the minds, and perhaps genes, of animals. Some people have stronger third hands than others. It’s a type of psychic energy that allows them to move things about with the force of their minds.
He and his folks live a relatively quiet life but they have this third hand.
Meanwhile, we have characters just living their lives like country boy Edeard.Įdeard features strongly in this book.
Some folks want to take a vast armada of settlers into the void and others believe that will cause it to swell and swallow the galaxy. There’s lots of theories about it and no real answers. At the center of the galaxy, is the Void, which is supposedly this artificial universe created by a technologically advanced civilization eons ago. Set in the far, far future, there’s an intersolar commonwealth with all sorts of politics. This is a big sweeping epic scifi! There’s a lot going on in this story.
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