Standing Wave - Softcover

Hendrix, Howard V.

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ISBN 10: 0441005535 ISBN 13: 9780441005536

Publisher: Ace, 1998

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The author returns to the universe of Lightpaths, his critically acclaimed, best-selling debut, where the human inhabitants of an orbiting space station confront a vast new intelligence so strange it defies the term, "alien." Original.

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Howard V. Hendrix has been nominated for the Nebula Award and the Pushcart Prize for his short fiction. The New York Review of Science Fiction has called him "brilliant." Now Howard V. Hendrix unleashes his imagination to create an unforgettable first novel that melds the heart and soul of hard science fiction with the twisting consciousness of virtual reality. The result is nothing short of extraordinary.

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In this mind-bending follow-up to Lightpaths, Hendrix sets existential philosophy on a collision course with quantum physics, presenting a 21st-century world in which the line between artificial intelligence and consciousness, between information and matter, has become so teased that the universe is about to have a space-time identity crisis. A host of characters are searching for a cyberspace murderer and seeking to understand recent mysterious cosmological occurrences. Hendrix extrapolates current social, political, and environmental conditions seamlessly into this future, but his discussions of scientific theory will many readers circling dangerously close to their own "information density singularity." Dialogue consists mainly of characters trying to explain the inexplicable: "The noosphere is becoming involuted into what Teilhard called a Hyperpersonal Consciousness... Matter and consciousness will reach the terminal phase of their convergent integration and become one." It also doesn't help that events and concepts are often explained long after initial references to them have befuddled readers. Still, Hendrix's postulation that "Everything happens twice?first as theology, then as technology" is compelling and worth the struggle to keep up with him.
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