Set thirteen centuries in the future, A. A. Attanasio meticulously creates a brilliantly realized Earth, rich in detail and filled with beings brought to life with intense energy. In this strange and beautiful world, Sumner Kagan will change from an adolescent outcast to a warrior with god-like powers and in the process take us on an epic and /5(40). Arc of the Dream – A Radix Tetrad Novel. By A. A. Attanasio. In Other Worlds – A Radix Tetrad Novel. By A. A. Attanasio. Go to page 1; Go to page 2; Go to Next Page. In a vastly changed world, thirteen centuries from now, Sumner Kagan searches the earth to find the godmind, a malefic being with reality-shaping powers.
by A. A. Attanasio, Jaime Oria. (9) $ One star-chained evening in a Manhattan bathroom, Carl Schirmer, a sweet, slightly defeated bar manager, spontaneously transforms into energy and finds himself transported to the farthest extreme of the universe, billion years in the future. Incidentally, Radix is actually the first book in a thematic "tetrad". Reading Challenge #10 - Radix AA Attanasio «It Doesn't Have To Be Right (I, Thou, objective world) to a tetrad, by a process of completion, as it were, to embrace the "godhead that lives in impenetrable silence", the objective counterpart of the Ego, which. Reading Challenge #10 - Radix AA Attanasio When I decided this year to reread books I remembered fondly from my teens, it was a given that some - if not all - might not survive the experience. After all, I'd like to think I'm a more discerning reader now.
In the thirty-fourth century, when the novel opens, Earth is very different. There is a map at the front of Radix, which depicts an area of North America (with north and south swapped), but which bears little or no resemblance to any territory from a real-world atlas. This is where the story takes place. Attanasio's first novel is really a tour de force, but I am mixed regarding it-- brilliant or train wreck, it could go either way, and after finishing it, I am still unsure. The main protagonist is Sumner, who starts off as a teenager with issues. Radix is set roughly years in the future, a bleak future at that. I've read through www.doorway.rusio's Radix and I'm captivated by his vivid mastery of the senses, emotions, uncertainty and the unknown. These very human components are deliciously composed together with the barely knowable aspects of reality and the very fringes of fantasy.
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