LIGHT MUSIC
"LIGHT
MUSIC is a brilliant novel, a wild ride through a world transformed
but somehow archetypal. Seldom have I been given a stronger sense of just
how surrealistic and strange humanity's future might become-it's
frightening in a way, but also inspiring and beautiful."
-Kim Stanley Robinson
Kathleen Goonan is one of the very few writers of science fiction, today, willing to work with the unfettered vistas of abject weirdness presented by the apocalyptic potential of *really* new technologies.-William Gibson, author of ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES
I thought LIGHT MUSIC was an impressive book. Wonderfully imaginative and beautifully written, this novel describes a future that stretches the limits of the imagination.-Pat Murphy
Goonan is one of the most imaginative authors in the literature of the imagination. Each chapter of LIGHT MUSIC is a voyage of discovery. The book is a whole odyssey.-David Brin
LIGHT MUSIC, which concludes Kathleen Ann Goonan's Quartet, was released from HarperCollins Eos June 2002.
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Kathleen
Ann Goonans acclaimed epic of a much-transformed near-future reaches
a glorious crescendo and conclusion with her breathtaking final vision
of a nanotechnological tomorrow
and the ultimate brilliant transcendence
of humankind. LIGHT
MUSIC Once the world worked
differently-before the Silence from space quieted the airwaves
and rendered electronics useless. Once there was a haven called Crescent City, built through the wonders of nanotechnology to transport its enlightened inhabitants into the cosmos, far away from the chaos and terrors of a world gone mad. But humanity has failed the city. And carelessness
has left it vulnerable to attack from those who covet the health and prosperity
it offers. One of the original
pioneers-a recipient of the DNA-altering virus affecting a
remarkable few who were born at the Silences onset-Jason Peabody
must now flee in the wake of an unanticipated assault on Crescent City
by pirates. In the city-imposed persona of musical six-gun-toting Radio
Cowboy, entrusted with the recovery of lost technology needed to heal
the sentient metropolis and rocket it upward, he embarks on a bizarre
odyssey across a perilous, unrecognizable outside-through a landscape
of Western round-ups and tragically youngening children; of
plague-ravaged humans in foreboding flower cities; of conscious
machines, talking animals, and toys that long to be real. With him is
Dania, a brilliant scientist and resilient survivor whose hidden, troubled
past is now painfully remembered beyond the walls of her urban sanctuary. But even as Dania and her Cowboy journey westward, others are being relentlessly drawn to Crescent City from all parts of the globe-and two from the moon, the last humans remaining from the inexplicably vanished Unity colony. For an existence that is not as it was is on the brink of yet another astonishing transformation-either by grand design or random cosmic accident. And the appearance on Earth of strange unearthly illuminations is causing widespread fear and panic-as pilgrims from everywhere gather in Crescent City seeking answers to the Silences long-concealed mysteries, responding to the hypnotic light music thats calling them toward a remarkable destiny in the stars. |
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