Standing Wave: A Science Fiction Novel

Lightpaths #2

by Howard V. Hendrix

What was the light that mazed every mind's sky - and then was gone? Why has it brought a flying tepui mountaintop home from the stars, and sent investigators into the orbital habitats floating above Earth? How is it connected to a "living fossil" fungus of great entheogenic powers? Or to a dead madman? Or to the fate of a planet overpopulated, hypermediated, corporate dominated, and heat-gas insulated? Forces that are socially and politically polarized, both good and evil, selfless and selfish, must search for the answers to these questions - increasingly aware that whoever obtains these answers first will decide the ultimate fate of the Earth - and all humanity!

Genres: Science Fiction

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First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 1 out of 5]

IMHO Mr. Hendrix has used his many degrees to concoct a buzzword-laden novel from heck. If the idea of reading a sentence like "...the upshot of of crypto-behaviourist ideas ... at least in academic circles, was a generalized denial of the actuality of individual consciousness" every few pages doesn't turn you on, then stay away.

[Philip Chaston · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are times when ideas drown plot, characters and so on. A brave attempt at charting transcendence though I rarely care for an alien deus ex machina.

[Jason Hebert · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very disappointing the second time around.