Dancing With Eternity

by John Patrick Lowrie

Overview

What would happen if Odysseus met Captain Ahab in the Fortieth Century? Only Captain Ahab is a beautiful woman named Steel who owns her own starship, and Odysseus is an unemployed actor named Mohandas who's stuck on the backside of a backwater moon because he won't pay his taxes. Oh, and everybody-well, almost everybody-lives forever..

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603818100
Publisher:	Camel Press
Publication date:	09/01/2011
Pages:	418
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	15 Years

About the Author

John Patrick Lowrie was born in Honolulu and raised in Boulder. At 16 he left home to make his way as a singer/guitarist/flautist/ trombonist in a rock 'n' roll band, sleeping in parks and communes. After surviving the draft, he graduated with highest distinction from the Indiana University School of Music and for a few years managed to make a living as a composer and guitarist in his acoustic fusion duo, The Kiethe Lowrie Duet, garnering critical acclaim. He then decided to become an actor because the pay was better and the work was steadier (truly!). He and his wife, Ellen McLain, now reside in Seattle where they divide their professional time between acting in live theater and voice-acting for computer games and radio dramas

Editorial Reviews

An antifeminist polemic not cunningly enough disguised as a space opera, the novel is set in a distant future where humanity has been granted telepathic abilities by way of the net and immortality via re-boots, yet its real preoccupations are downright traditional. Our hero, Mo, is down on his luck and drinking in a dive bar when a beautiful stranger, Steel, offers him a job as a crewman on her starship. He joins Steel's team and immediately becomes involved in her mission to solve a mysterious problem by exploring the deadly Brainard's Planet, despite the increasingly painful cost. As the plot progresses, it becomes clear that allegedly-obsolete nuclear family relationships have been front and center all along. Complex emotional ties and the way they make the ostensible bad guys sympathetic are this novel's strongest aspect; unfortunately, they are too often weighed down with exposition and simplistic, heavy-handed politics. (Apr.)

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