Metaconcert

by Julian May

Book Overview

The world's metapsychics hone their skills in order to ban together to create a peaceful, harmonious planet, but there are some who want to put their powers to an evil use. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345355245
• ISBN13: 9780345355249
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A Mind is a terrible thing to waste

Human evolution has reached a new stage, and individuals are being born all over the world, with awesome mental abilities. Two of these, Rogi and Don Remillard, would change the world. Dons first born Denis, now a Professor of MetaPsychology, leads the World in the new Mental revolution, fighting to ensure that his fellow psychics can develope peacefully and freely. His evil brother Victor, intent on conquering the world, has a very different vision for the human Mind. Only one can prevail.The benevolent aliens, led by the mysterious Family Ghost, must work through the humble offices of Rogi, to ensure that Denis and not Victor writes the script for mankinds future.Black and white, good and evil, altruism and greed: Denis and Victor.

An intersection, in the mind of a visionary.

Concealed in the recesses of our minds hides an interminable predilection to believe in our own power as limited, and in that belief we do not achieve. This book is an eye popping extravaganza of realization, and a quintessential understanding of "Human Potential". You must experience this novel, for simple reading does it no justice.

For fans of Julian May's work this is a must have...

Part II of the Intervention continues Uncle Rogi's accounting of the pre-intervention human operant saga. Finally the family ghost is identified. You realize that there is a large quantity of story left to be told. Read the other Mileau books as well.

An effective curtain-raiser for the grand opera to follow

The principal human characters of Julian May's "Saga of Pliocene Exile" were refugees from the Galactic Milieu- a vast, benevolent confederation of psychically powerful races, of which humanity was the prodigal youngest member. In her two-volume "Intervention," we get our first look at the evolutionary steps that brought humanity to the brink of the Milieu. Endearingly told largely from the viewpoint of Uncle Rogi Remillard- maverick great-uncle to some of the finest and most powerful minds of the Human Polity of the Milieu- "The Metaconcert" finishes the story of how metapsychic humanity avoided destruction and forced open the door to galactic citizenship. It's a broad canvas that involves five alien races, humans running the gamut from angelic to demonic, and politics that make the Byzantine empire look simple. May calls this "a root-tale to the Galactic Milieu"; while it helps to have read the Pliocene books, the story begun in "The Surveillance," continued in "The Metaconcert" and finished in the Milieu Trilogy stands on its own as one of the most richly imagined futures in the science fiction of the last 20 years.