From: Simon Hayns
Location: Hamilton, New Zealand
Date: 02/26/2009
Hi Greg
I just finished re-reading Eternity, and I find one passage confusing. At the end of chapter forty six, when Lanier is having his first aneurysm, there's a line that reads: "No pain, just the sudden withdrawl of He had not thought himself so "Oh, God.""
Was that a misprint, or were you conveying the breakdown of rational thought?
My copy is a paperback first VGSF edition, printed 1989.
As always, write more books!
Simon :-)
From: Greg Bear
Date: 02/26/2009
Lanier's brain is breaking down.
From: Simon Hayns
Location: Hamilton, new Zealand
Date: 02/26/2009
Thanks for clearing that up.
I love the way you describe those sort of things - the scene in Moving Mars when the QL thinker aboard Phobos chooses a bad path, when Glaucous flips the chancer's heart in City, the Jart breaching Olmy's defences in Eternity - your work almost reads as fantasy sometimes, but with an underpinning of hard science, it all seems so plausible. Fantastic work :-)
From: patrick
Location:
Date: 02/26/2009
Hm. Maybe I forget...um, yeah....but it's curious two of the main characters have brain- (and memory-) related traumas.
From: Greg Bear
Date: 02/26/2009
Thanks, Simon.
From: Greg Bear
Date: 02/26/2009
As I approach the end of a novel, I entirely sympathize!
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