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E.V.A.In.E.: Book 2 Lessons Learned from the Old Makers
All life forms dream. Even the overlooked organism in the soil beneath our feet which ventilate the soil. Many of these have extended life spans exceeding our own. Likewise among this category are variations that achieve remarkable transformations to their physical makeup. The struggling caterpillar, which has the ability to acquire a state of metamorphosis, can attain a winged form capable of drinking the nectar of its culminating attainment...its philosophy if you will. Thereby fulfilling its destiny. The passage of time has shown the prediction to evolve a thought to take a form that will result in an action of beauty and resounding results. My daughter will also dream one day following this pattern of evolution and guard the flower's nectar for the future transcendent and its proclamation to the universe. The "fractal key" will propel my created daughter to acquire a complexity that surrounds the observer and instructs him to abolish the excess that is defeating its efforts to become something more than before...To transcend!
338 pages, Paperback
Published February 27, 2018
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December 3, 2020
Reading E.V.A.IN.E Book 2 is like experiencing one of those all-too-occasional vivid dreams that are so richly detailed that you wake up feeling like you've been traveling: as if you have been mentally present somewhere vast and bizarre and new. The story takes the form of a journey of discovery, much like Gulliver's Travellers or Journey to the Centre of the Earth and, as is often the case, it is a story of conceptual breakthrough.
One of the things I absolutely loved about this novel was the vivid descriptions of this future world.
I had a feeling of getting a tan while I was reading this book. The author is so wildly imaginative when he writes about different life forms. It's a dramatic expressionistic painting of the horror that is life, of the sickening thing that is the mindless inborn genetic urge of every creature great and small to procreate and cover the land or air or sea unchecked.
E.V.A.IN.E: Book 2 is a bit of an oddity and unlike anything else, I have ever read. And because of that with the themes it explores, I recommend it to those that are looking for something a bit different.
One of the things I absolutely loved about this novel was the vivid descriptions of this future world.
I had a feeling of getting a tan while I was reading this book. The author is so wildly imaginative when he writes about different life forms. It's a dramatic expressionistic painting of the horror that is life, of the sickening thing that is the mindless inborn genetic urge of every creature great and small to procreate and cover the land or air or sea unchecked.
E.V.A.IN.E: Book 2 is a bit of an oddity and unlike anything else, I have ever read. And because of that with the themes it explores, I recommend it to those that are looking for something a bit different.
December 3, 2020
Such a strange, strange novel. 5-star rating for the sheer originality and clarity of vision. There are so many ideas packed in this short volume that I can very well imagine that, in the hands of certain contemporary SF authors, it would bloat up to a thousand pages. Extremely original and full of fresh ideas and awe-inspiring moments.
I have not read something so bold, so richly descriptive, and so imaginative before. He has imagined some descendants that are truly, vastly different from the E.V.A.IN.E: Book One, but has somehow managed to retain in them a piece of humanity that all of us can resonate with. The striving to be better, more intelligent, the race to cheat death and discover immortality, the deep need for exploration. In the end, all humans were selfish and cruel, they were great in their achievements by working as a collective, they were astoundingly short-sighted in the way they treated each other, they were capable of grand plans spanning thousands of years.
If you are looking to read something that will take you somewhere utterly outside the commonplace, then I heartily recommend this imaginative splurge.
I have not read something so bold, so richly descriptive, and so imaginative before. He has imagined some descendants that are truly, vastly different from the E.V.A.IN.E: Book One, but has somehow managed to retain in them a piece of humanity that all of us can resonate with. The striving to be better, more intelligent, the race to cheat death and discover immortality, the deep need for exploration. In the end, all humans were selfish and cruel, they were great in their achievements by working as a collective, they were astoundingly short-sighted in the way they treated each other, they were capable of grand plans spanning thousands of years.
If you are looking to read something that will take you somewhere utterly outside the commonplace, then I heartily recommend this imaginative splurge.
December 3, 2020
I'm really impressed with this book! I was fully prepared to assume it would be overrated and skimpy on the characters, but what I actually got was a thought-provoking tale that was so heavy on the world-building that it was more like three or four characters in its own right.
The prose was more than strong enough to prevent such a monstrosity of a novel from collapsing, filled with tantalizing images of truly odd creatures and situations I can barely guess at.
The book succeeds for me in its lasting psychological feelings about teaming life forms and its atmospherics of horror and wonder over the precariousness of the life of an individual and our species. After the recent reads of science books on the current human-caused threats to the biological diversity of the planet, it was fascinating for me to experience a scenario where excessive diversity among non-living things puts us almost out of the picture.
The prose was more than strong enough to prevent such a monstrosity of a novel from collapsing, filled with tantalizing images of truly odd creatures and situations I can barely guess at.
The book succeeds for me in its lasting psychological feelings about teaming life forms and its atmospherics of horror and wonder over the precariousness of the life of an individual and our species. After the recent reads of science books on the current human-caused threats to the biological diversity of the planet, it was fascinating for me to experience a scenario where excessive diversity among non-living things puts us almost out of the picture.
December 7, 2020
4.0 stars. WOW, this book is in a class all by itself for originality, imagination, and scope.
The reason that the book, for all its amazing inventiveness, does not get 5 stars is because its narrative, at times, can be very, very dry. The detailed descriptions of each successive species of humanity and the trials and tribulations that befall them can become a bit tedious. Thus, there were times when I was not enjoying myself as much as I would have liked, despite being in almost constant awe of the writer's imagination.
However, despite that criticism, this is a book that I strongly recommend to all fans of science fiction as many of the ideas and concepts found in modern science fiction found their first true expression in this amazing future history.
The reason that the book, for all its amazing inventiveness, does not get 5 stars is because its narrative, at times, can be very, very dry. The detailed descriptions of each successive species of humanity and the trials and tribulations that befall them can become a bit tedious. Thus, there were times when I was not enjoying myself as much as I would have liked, despite being in almost constant awe of the writer's imagination.
However, despite that criticism, this is a book that I strongly recommend to all fans of science fiction as many of the ideas and concepts found in modern science fiction found their first true expression in this amazing future history.
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