A mathematician falls in love with a girl from the past and tries desperately to join her by solving the mysteries of time travel, while a young woman rescues the sole surviving clone of Hawaiian king Kamehameha. By the author of Queen City Jazz.
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Early in the next century, the Interspace company, in charge of humanity's first-generation starship, has been given extraordinary powers. Cen, a descendant of Hawaiian shaman-priests and a mathematical genius, finds out as an adolescent how ruthless they are in their preparedness to exploit human weakness and brilliance, yet he sells his work to them to gain the leisure to pursue his own plans--the conquest of time and the saving of the long-dead princess whom he meets and loves in moments of vision. A decade later, Lynn, a geneticist renegade from Interspace's ruling dynasty, rescues from assassination Akamu, a clone of Hawaii's legendary unifier, and finds herself, like Cen before her, manipulated by Interspace's Hawaiian nationalist foes. She and Akamu are pursued from Hawaii to Hong Kong and into the uplands of Tibet.
Bristling with intrigue and ideas about Buddhism, worm holes, celestial navigation, and quantum theories of intelligence, Goonan's new novel is touching on love and families and a grueling switchback ride for the intellect. Her first novel, Queen City Jazz, was impressive in its dreamy portrayal of a world altered by nano-technology; this radical change of place remakes the near-future techno-thriller as a set of passionately conceived ethical quandaries. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Goonan, who immediately established herself as a major SF author with Queen City Jazz (1994), again melds an original variety of elements into a satisfying and richly speculative novel. In near-future Hawaii, the corporation Interspace is exploiting the local Asian population as cheap labor and as subjects for experimental biological nanotechnology. Meanwhile, the rival Homeland Movement seeks to use technology for its own, nationalistic purposes. Interrelated narratives depict the adventures of Lynn Oshima?a geneticist who rescues a clone of King Kamehameha, who united the Hawaiian people hundreds of years earlier?and of Cen Kalakaua, a young man of royal Hawaiian blood whose vision of Princess Kaiulani, heir to the Hawaiian throne, drives him to explore the mysteries of both time and space. In vivid prose, Goonan combines well-knit plotting, exotic settings (from Victorian England to a future Dalai Lama's Himalayan retreat), believable characters and extrapolations concerning science and consciousness that will revive even the jaded SF reader's sense of wonder.
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Kathleen Ann Goonan is a writer, critic, and, presently, a Visiting Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she teaches Creative Writing and Literature.
Her 2007 novel IN WAR TIMES won the prestigious Campbell Award for Best Novel of 2007. Her first novel, QUEEN CITY JAZZ, was a New York Times Notable Book and a British Science Fiction Award finalist, and her second, THE BONES OF TIME, was an Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist. CRESCENT CITY RHAPSODY and LIGHT MUSIC were Nebula Award finalists.
Well-known for her Nanotech Quartet, Goonan's speaking engagements include appearances at Utopiales in Nantes, Kosmopolis in Barcelona, and at many universities. She has published over forty short stories, some of which are collected in ANGELS AND YOU DOGS, which will be released from PS Publishing in the fall of 2011.
She has this to say about THIS SHARED DREAM:
THIS SHARED DREAM evolved, as do most of my novels, from a variety of currents and influences. Chief among these were Eric Kandel's IN SEARCH OF MEMORY. Kandel, a Nobel laureate, has done extensive research on the biological roots and pathways of memory--how it is created, how it is stored, and how it re-emerges in certain conditions. In his book, his memories of his family's flight from Vienna following Krystallnacht in 1938 are interspersed with his growing appreciation of the mysteries of memory.
But THIS SHARED DREAM is in the main a family saga about lost and unevenly distributed information, and about how differing memories among siblings create their present. It is also about retrieving lost memories, lost parts of the self, and re-integrating them into one's present being.
It is about the nature of time and consciousness, and identity. It is about music, communication, and the potential of children when they have a science-based educational environment that meshes with and enhances their natural developmental.
Mostly, though, it is about the tenacity of love, and the power of love to heal.
Kathleen Ann Goonan can be reached for interviews via kathleen@goonan.com, www.goonan.com, and www.goonan.com/blog.
This Shared Dream website is www.thisshareddream.com
Her 2007 novel IN WAR TIMES won the prestigious Campbell Award for Best Novel of 2007. Her first novel, QUEEN CITY JAZZ, was a New York Times Notable Book and a British Science Fiction Award finalist, and her second, THE BONES OF TIME, was an Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist. CRESCENT CITY RHAPSODY and LIGHT MUSIC were Nebula Award finalists.
Well-known for her Nanotech Quartet, Goonan's speaking engagements include appearances at Utopiales in Nantes, Kosmopolis in Barcelona, and at many universities. She has published over forty short stories, some of which are collected in ANGELS AND YOU DOGS, which will be released from PS Publishing in the fall of 2011.
She has this to say about THIS SHARED DREAM:
THIS SHARED DREAM evolved, as do most of my novels, from a variety of currents and influences. Chief among these were Eric Kandel's IN SEARCH OF MEMORY. Kandel, a Nobel laureate, has done extensive research on the biological roots and pathways of memory--how it is created, how it is stored, and how it re-emerges in certain conditions. In his book, his memories of his family's flight from Vienna following Krystallnacht in 1938 are interspersed with his growing appreciation of the mysteries of memory.
But THIS SHARED DREAM is in the main a family saga about lost and unevenly distributed information, and about how differing memories among siblings create their present. It is also about retrieving lost memories, lost parts of the self, and re-integrating them into one's present being.
It is about the nature of time and consciousness, and identity. It is about music, communication, and the potential of children when they have a science-based educational environment that meshes with and enhances their natural developmental.
Mostly, though, it is about the tenacity of love, and the power of love to heal.
Kathleen Ann Goonan can be reached for interviews via kathleen@goonan.com, www.goonan.com, and www.goonan.com/blog.
This Shared Dream website is www.thisshareddream.com
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Haunting, suspenceful, intriuging,
By Bridget (Woonsocket, RI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Bones of Time (Mass Market Paperback)
Ms. Goonan creates a hauntingly beautiful love story, a suspenceful high-tech thriller, and a policaly charged story of both the future and the history of Hawaai - all in one. Her power to weave seemingly seperate storylines, decades, even centuries apart is captivating. This is THE BEST historical Science Fiction book I've ever read. There is nothing like it. The closest would be "The Diamond Age" or "Lincon's Dreams". THE BONE'S OF TIME has the power to make me care deeply about a long dead Hawaain princess. It's the story of a math genius boy named Century who's in love with a girl seperated from him by time. It's also the story of a political struggle in future Hawaai, and cloning, and space travel, but ultimately it's a story about time; how it binds us and how we can break those binds.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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The Bones of Time - a very favorable impression,
By trubane@texas.net (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Bones of Time (Hardcover)
I picked this book up because it was 20% off; I'd never heard of it or Ms. Goonan. It was a great find. Ms. Goonan is current on all of the cutting edge science - cloning, genetic manipulation, nanotech, and even the cutting edge super-string theory of physics, which implies the possibility of time travel. All of this could be incredibly boring, though, but Ms. Goonan hangs it all on a great plot populated by some memorable characters. The novel is set in Hawaii. Some of the characters are native Hawaiians, and members of the underground Homeland Movement; another is the Japanese daughter of the founder of Interspace, an organization with the lofty goal of settling the stars, but as corrupt and underhanded as any modern organization. The way all of these elements are tied together is really incredible. You'll have to read it to see for yourself
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Captivating and unique,
This review is from: The Bones of Time (Mass Market Paperback)
In "The Bones of Time" Ms. Goonan combines cutting edge science fiction with traditional Hawaiian culture in a suspenseful and captivating race against time itself. The pace of the novel will keep you glued to the page and the climax is as stunning as it is satisfying. One of the finest science fiction stories I have ever read.
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