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Author
Index
W |
Ian
Watson |
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Title
Index
The |
The
Embedding |
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| Year |
1973 |
| Publisher |
Victor
Gollancz |
| ISBN |
0575071338 |
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Synopsis
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The
theme is not a
traditional science
fiction topic, but
a very
intellectually
challenging one:
language as the
means to bridge
the gap between
human
consciousness and
the otherness of
the objective
world. In Watson's
fictional
"embedded"
language of the
Xemahoas, a
Brazilian Indian
tribe,
"This-Reality"
is converted into
the transcendent
pattern of
"Other-Reality,"
which is the world
of pure being. The
Sp'thra (who
represent the
essential
otherness of the
objective world,
everything about
it that we do not
understand)
bargain for the
brains of speakers
of this language,
which they desire
to learn.
Doug Mackey |
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Review
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'It
gave one the sense
of being led very
near to the brink
of profundity,
even revelation'
Martin Amis
'Intellectually,
The Embedding
is the most
spectacular thing
in science fiction
since the
astounding Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem'
The Spectator |
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Credit:
NASA
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The
Sun at
Solstice
The
Sun has
reached
its
northernmost
point in
planet
Earth's
sky
marking a
season
change and
the first
solstice
of the
year 2004.
We
celebrate
the
arrival of
summer
with this
false-color
composite
of three
images
from the
space-based
Solar
and
Heliospheric
Observatory
(SOHO),
a mission
of
international
cooperation
between
NASA and
the
European
Space
Agency (ESA).
All three
images are
made in
extreme
ultraviolet
light, but
each
individual
image
highlights
a
different
temperature
range in
the upper
solar
atmosphere:
Red at 2
million,
green at
1.5
million,
and blue
at 1
million
degrees
Celsius
(3.6
million,
2.7
million,
and 1.8
million
degrees
Fahrenheit).
The
combined
image
shows
bright
active
regions
strewn
across the
solar
disk,
which
would
otherwise
appear as
dark
groups of
sunspots
in visible
light
images. |
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