![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Simmons’ novella, narrated by a young male earth’s Man, is an exceptionally artful religious legend of the far future, and quite special. 16 downloads 291 Views 157KB Size Report. ![]() They are, as proxies for all humanity-and more. The actors thereby climb the ladder of a universal order humans have been made to believe is divine. ![]() After that he orders them to yet another to play before the Demiurgos, who control the Archons, and after that to another to perform for Abraxas, the incarnate god. ![]() After a particularly good Macbeth, attended by some Archons and their dragomen (interpreters), one of the latter comes to the company and orders them to play for an all-Archon audience on another world. Simmons became the master of the minor classic in 1992 with the brilliant The Hollow Man, a fiction length treatment of how exciting Sookie Stackhouses telepathy can be when it has a more. The players are slaves, too, really, like all humans since, thousands of years ago, the Archons found earth and erased its culture, except for Shakespeare. The Muse of Fire schleps the Shakespearean troupe the Earth’s Men to the many planets inhabited by the slaves called arbeiters and doles, who, like the actors, are human. What follows is an intellectual adventure story of astonishing richness and depth in which disparate species face each other across an insurmountable divide. ![]()
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