Voice of the Planet
- Kategoria:
- fantasy, science fiction
- Wydawnictwo:
- Bantam Spectra
- Data wydania:
- 1990-06-01
- Data 1. wydania:
- 1990-06-01
- Liczba stron:
- 388
- Czas czytania
- 6 godz. 28 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 0553283677
- Tagi:
- powieść amerykańska--II poł. 20 w. ekologia zanieczyszczenie środowiska wizje przyszlości Gaja powieść-ostrzeżenie zagłada życia na Ziemi
From the Diary of William Hope Planter . . .
► How to describe Gaia? One month in her company has dispelled in my mind any possibility that there's a hacker behind this computer. There was a monk who apparently built her brain, gave her tools to utilize endless programs, and then departed this world.
She accesses damn near everything—medieval lexicons, Landsat satellite imagery, the latest data on pollution, endangered species, astronomy, even religion and literature.
I can't help but associate her message with what is called the Gaia Hypothesis, the notion that this entire Earth is a living planet, a singular organism with its own agenda and wants.
I've only begun to test her possibilities. But, most amazingly, she is able to conquer time and space. . . . ◄
Disillusioned with his work, goaded by bizarre, persistent and inexplicable messages, ecologist William Hope Planter journeys to a Buddhist monastery at the foot of Mount Everest to reconsider his lite and his future. There he is drawn perilously into the world of Gaia, the incarnate spirit of the Earth itself, speaking via an uncanny and all-powerful computer.
Doubting his own sanity but willing to learn what he can, Planter succumbs to volatile dialogue with this remarkable being. By turns wise, fickle, compassionate, ruthless, temperamental, and as desirable as any flesh-and-blood woman, Gaia makes intimate contact with Planter, catapulting the scientist on an astonishing odyssey through time and space to reveal to him all of the rich, miraculous diversity of life on Earth. As their journey intensifies, so do their feelings for each other. But their evolving relationship is fraught with turmoil. Gaia gave Planter and his kind the gift of life. She loves him. Yet, in return, the terrible power of Planter's species now threatens to destroy her.
Witty, irreverent, poignant, erotic, often shocking, even terrifying in its implications, VOICE OFTHE PLANET is a brilliantly inventive and important work that focuses new light on such critical concerns as overpopulation, pollution, and the extinction of life on Earth.
► Combines the imagination of Robert Heinlein, the erudition of Umberto Eco, and the moral core of William Styron. ... A wise, playful, fascinating tour de force. ◄ Denis Hayes, Chair and CEO, Earth Day 1990
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VOICE OFTHE PLANET is an unprecedented international event, a whole new form of television. The series—the confessions of a blue planet— examines the past, present, and future of Earth. It ushers in the decade of the 1990s, a period in which human civilization must be more concerned about the environment than ever before.
Created by Michael Tobias, the ten-hour dramatic series stars William Shatner and features the voice of Faye Dunaway as Gaia, primeval goddess of Earth. VOICE OFTHE PLANET premieres on the Turner Broadcasting System during the Fall of 1990.
In this latest work by Michael Tobias—writer, director, producer, and executive producer for the television series—he explores realms far beyond the confines of television, exploding old myths while revealing new, often devastating truths and insights about the astonishing nature of life on planet Earth.
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