The Reality Thief
by Paul Anlee
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Pub Date Apr 07 2018 | Archive Date Aug 23 2018
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Description
Rule the Chaos, rule the Universe
The already controversial Dr. Darian Leigh has outdone himself this time with a magnanimous gift to humanity: a device that can create whole new universes and alter the laws of physics. The theory alone sets the worlds of science, religion, and politics ablaze. Now, if only he could get it working. Little does he know, it already does. Lines between good and evil get blurry when a misguided lab associate and the scheming leader of an influential church join forces to harness the power for the glory of God. What—or who—are they willing to sacrifice to possess the machine? Mired in secrets, betrayal, good intentions, and murder, the struggle to control it will rage for eons.
Canadian author Paul Anlee writes provocative, epic sci-fi in the style of Asimov, Heinlein, Asher, and Reynolds, stories that challenge our assumptions and stretch our imagination. Literary, fact-based, and fast-paced, the Deplosion series explores themes in philosophy, politics, religion, economics, AI, VR, nanotech, synbio, quantum reality, and beyond.
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Lynda S, Reviewer
There is, in the further reaches of the universe, a god of Order, bringing the forces of Chaos and Darkness to heel. This is Alum, who aims to bring stability and prosperity to an evet-expanding universe of planets and asteroids, managed by humans and their yo-called cyber mechanical servitors.
Suddenly, a new prophet emerges, but not one of Alum's making. Darak instead hints that natural life and eco systems are being destroyed to make way for a system that is ultimately stagnant. Only Chaos with its inherent instabity and openness to Change can represent the New Way.
A wormhole slide through space and time brings us to the experiments in bio technology that will be capable of augmenting human intelligence into so much more. The child of one of its pioneers, Darian Leigh, is about to reveal how whole new universes may be generated through the manipulation of sub-Quantum particles.
But Darian has enemies from within a divided continent that was once the USA. A fundamentalist faction is determined to put a stop to what is perceived as his arrogant, atheist hubris.
This novel is not a standalone! Before a mini universe is created in lab conditions, it does seem as though some of these original earthlings will become part of this new world, though it is not revealed yet, which of these will become Alum ( though it may be posy to guess). Paul Anlee hopes to get his emerging new readership hooked from this original bite from the apple.
Even so, here is hard SF at its most audacious. The Final Frontier may be reached, or perhaps breached, though applied quantum physics and bio technology, as much as through building rockets.
An important theme seems to lie within a die tic argument on how the least attractive of two world views have clashed. The fanatical and unsophisticated world views of Fundamentalists who nevertheless hold political power is shown to be at loggerheads with a world devoid of both gods and the hope of any ultimate meaning to life.
How this plays out however, will have to be sent though, in the sequels to this first in the series.
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