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James Patrick Kelly Look into the Sun
Tor Books 1990 0812542932 / 9780812542936 Paperback Very Good
0812542932 0812542932 Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly In Kelly's 1987 novella The Glass Cloud , architect Phillip Wing saw his grand vision of an immense floating cloud achieved in such a way that the project, and, he felt, much of his world, was co-opted by the aliens called messengers. This novel extends that story as Wing is convinced by the messengers to take a 50-year journey to the planet Aseneshesh to design the tomb for a dying goddess. Already suspicious of the messengers' New Age religion on Earth, Wing finds himself in a theocracy whose power struggles could easily come to focus on his own work. The characters and background remain vague but Kelly is sensitive to the dislocations Wing feels, from Earth--where his wife becomes a convert to the messenger's religion, to the spaceflight on which a genetically sculptured cancer physically restructures him into an alien. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal A disillusioned architect reluctantly accepts an offer from the alien Chani to travel to their world and undertake his most important commission--the construction of a monument to their "immortal" priestess. Kelly ( Planet of Whispers ) explores the literal and figurative boundaries of alienation in this evocative novel of a man's search for his own humanity. For large libraries.-- Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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