Cradle of Splendor

by Patricia Anthony

Book Overview

In a near-future world, a freak spaceship launching accident in Brazil ends in the ship's narrow and inexplicable escape into space, and baffled space scientists throughout the world race to discover... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044100301X
• ISBN13: 9780441003013
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Provocative SF

Patricia Anthony has written this novel with obviously extensive understanding of politics, gender relations, the UFO subculture and the craft of writing. It is a tragic, sad tale, filled with absurd moments and startling beauty. Her characters are vivid and surprisingly believable in their eccentricities and obsessions. Her canvas is wide and it contains a full spectrum of people whose lives (and deaths) are woven into an intricate and subtle mosaic of mystery and tragedy. The novel is provocative science fiction, compact and quite as readable as her previous books. It is a bit eccentric, as perhaps expected, and eminently comparable to a Phil Dick novel. But you wouldn't mistake hers for his. As he was, she is. An original.

A great book

... Patricia Anthony is an incredibly talented writer, andCradle of Splendor is probably her best book. Yes, it's full of darksexual violence, but that *is* the point - or, at least it's one ofthem. This is a complicated work, written with a sort of eerie lyricism that's compelling and beautiful. I hope more people will give this book a chance.

Prophecy

The content of this book pertains directly to things happening in the world right now. Welcome to the cosmos humans. Its a brutal but light filled universe. For Now. Get Alive and Hurry Up. The FTL information WILL NOT manifest until environmental synergy is achieved. Thats the only exception I take with the book. Picking the lock on cosmic consciousness indeed. If we get 5% more than we have now we are monsters compared to what we are, and thats saying a lot, because in many ways we are monstrous animals already. The greatest Hunters The Planet Has Ever Produced. Built on the Serpent, and HOT blooded. BG