An Exaltation of Stars (1973) Anthology by Terry Carr (ed. Jim3692)
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Overview: Science fiction is a literature of rationality. In its “pure” form, in stories based solidly on logical extrapolation of known scientific principles, it is the most rigorously rational form of literature we’ve ever had.
Yet, seemingly paradoxically, science fiction has always been fascinated by the irrational, the numinous and transcendental. I suppose this is because science fiction likes to ask large questions: not simply How? but Why? And what are the implications?
Genre:Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
Robert Silverberg, in THE FEAST OF ST. DIONYSUS, tells of an astronaut returned alone and guilt-ridden from Mars, his mates dead on that other world; and with careful delineation of thought and emotion Silverberg shows us one man’s way out of his own dark night toward a Light.
Roger Zelazny’s novella ‘KJWALLL’KJE’K’KOOTHAÏLLL’KJE’K considers the forms spiritual ecstasy might take not only for a man, but for an entirely different form of life. His conclusions are thought-provoking, and all the more so for being embodied in a story of such a pragmatic thing as murder.
Edgar Pangborn’s MY BROTHER LEOPOLD returns us to human religion, but he addresses not the transcendental experience alone, but its effects and implications. Here, in a future postholocaust North America whose civilization is only now rebuilding itself out of dark ages, wc meet a man who has felt the Presence, and we see the results of his attempt to relate a higher knowledge to earthly reality.
Three very different approaches, and three sharply contrasting stories.
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