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Loading... Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd Century America (2009)by Robert Charles Wilson
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) wisemetis | Jan 14, 2023 |  Reasoning: ancient peoples always regarded the snake as a wise, immortal creature because it not only renewed itself by losing its skin, but also because it knew how to listen. Comstock himself was a philosopher and wanted nothing more than to think about wisdom and science in a bible-thumping, bass-ackwards world, and have a little fun with the boys while he was at it. When the narrator decided that he'd drop his friend's love of philosophy, he fell back on the old practice of bashing the snake's head in. A beautiful setup in the story. Of course, none of that had any real plot-value to spoil, so I hope you forgive me my enjoyment on this one. :) The rise and fall of Julian the Apostate, written fresh for the new, post-modern fall of a world. (Well, at least fallen to the state of a steampunk society, anyway.) I always did like Julian Caesar best out of all of the Caesars. (  ) bradleyhorner | Jun 1, 2020 |  ) Firewild | Jan 3, 2019 | ) auntmarge64 | Oct 2, 2017 | ) apomonis | Jun 2, 2016 |
 its sense of adventure, the unlikely accomplishments of its hero, and a cast of colorful characters make it the twenty-second century equivalent of what once would have been called a ripping good yarn. JULIAN COMSTOCK is a buffet of cool delights: The plot is epic; its steampunky Wild West future evokes the Bruce Campbell series THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY JR.; the characters are unique takes on classic archetypes; and the prose sounds authentically vintage without being hard to understand or difficult to read. Politically astute, romantic, philosophical, compassionate and often uproariously funny, Julian Comstock may be Wilson's best book yet -- and that's saying a lot of a man who has already collected a shelf full of awards for books like Spin. Julian Comstock reminds us that inevitably, every generation imperfectly remembers the past. The best we can hope for is that the future will remember the constructive ideas we've left behind rather than the unhelpful ones. This novel is about why the struggle over cultural memory may be the most important of all. Belongs to Publisher SeriesGallimard, Folio SF (491) Is an expanded version ofWas inspired byAwardsDistinctions
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HTML: In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation's spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again. No library descriptions found. |
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