Unbelievable! Read onwards.
Science-Fiction
Review: By robomomk
The New Dead, by Realto Laandsman.
This is truly the most devastatingly powerful science-fictitious book my arthritic fingers have never thumbed. An author, of the ilk of the father of the ‘Frankenstein chronicles’, I speak of non-other than Archimedes Nostradamus, Laandsman surfaces with this his elemental volume, the first of a series of three raised to the exponential power of, the ‘unimaginable’ … The plot arises and eventually resolves about the dilemma of all the characters, including Himroids the protagonist and his love, Bucanoisette being caught in an eternal circus maelstrom cycle of entertainment called, The Great Pretence of Life.
The engine of the dynamic of the character’s dramatic performances in the show is the deus ex machina, a cubic transparent spectral rainbow-die held within a crystal sphere by a spatial vortex in incessant decay and disequilibrium- the cause of oxidation or rusting of the universe. This oxidation wind of decay blows through and energises the universe, fans the fire of the universe in fact so that all death in life is warm but all life in death loses warmth and dissipates energy.
I shall not rob those who may intend not reading the book of its existential ending which in fact is no ending but a dissolution to the next volume. Suffice it to say that the very typically human foibles and weaknesses are blown by the wind through time and place and translated through history in hierarchies of evolutionary vortices which exist in each identity or person in the universe for all time. This apparent mundane universality provides the safety net and confidence for the performers to engage in their respective operatic roles. It must be read to be experienced, I reveal nothing. Bravo Laandsman. Four stars.
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