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The Pillars of Eternity
When the Colonnaders plucked him from a life of misery and their surgeons rebuilt his twisted body with silicon bones, Joachim Boaz renamed himself after THE PILLARS OF ETERNITY. Now he seeks Meirjaihn the Wanderer, a planet that plots its own course between for on its surface lies a gem that offers mastery over time itself . . .
- GenresScience Fiction
159 pages, Mass Market
Published March 2, 1982
About the author
Barrington J. Bayley
73 books42 followersBarrington J. Bayley published work principally under his own name but also using the pseudonyms ofAlan Aumbry, Michael Barrington (with Michael Moorcock), John Diamond and P.F. Woods.
Bayley was born in Birmingham and educated in Newport, Shropshire. He worked in a number of jobs before joining the Royal Air Force in 1955; his first published story, "Combat's End", had seen print the year before in UK-only publication Vargo Statten Magazine.
During the 1960s, Bayley's short stories featured regularly in New Worlds magazine and later in its successor, the paperback anthologies of the same name. He became friends with New Worlds editor Michael Moorcock, who largely instigated science fiction's New Wave movement. Bayley himself was part of the movement.
Bayley's first book, Star Virus, was followed by more than a dozen other novels; his downbeat, gloomy approach to novel writing has been cited as influential on the works of M. John Harrison, Brian Stableford and Bruce Sterling.
Bayley was born in Birmingham and educated in Newport, Shropshire. He worked in a number of jobs before joining the Royal Air Force in 1955; his first published story, "Combat's End", had seen print the year before in UK-only publication Vargo Statten Magazine.
During the 1960s, Bayley's short stories featured regularly in New Worlds magazine and later in its successor, the paperback anthologies of the same name. He became friends with New Worlds editor Michael Moorcock, who largely instigated science fiction's New Wave movement. Bayley himself was part of the movement.
Bayley's first book, Star Virus, was followed by more than a dozen other novels; his downbeat, gloomy approach to novel writing has been cited as influential on the works of M. John Harrison, Brian Stableford and Bruce Sterling.
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July 29, 2011
Before even cracking it open, this book raises the question: was it written by the Barrington J. Bayley of the quirky and intriguing The Fall of Chronopolis or the BJB of the lazy and slipshod Empire of Two Worlds? Fortunately, the former.
Bayley has an interestingly off-kilter viewpoint. He plays with philosophical systems of dubious merit, from the zenlike collinadors with their refined version of tarot reading to the actual practice of alchemy, described loosely as a system that parallels that of chemistry. This seems to be his recurring theme: presenting ancient spiritualism or superstition within a scientific or science-fictional context.
Bayley has an interestingly off-kilter viewpoint. He plays with philosophical systems of dubious merit, from the zenlike collinadors with their refined version of tarot reading to the actual practice of alchemy, described loosely as a system that parallels that of chemistry. This seems to be his recurring theme: presenting ancient spiritualism or superstition within a scientific or science-fictional context.
August 20, 2026
Nah, you should pass. Thought I would try a older scifi but its not that good
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