"Howard Hendrix is one of the very best of the new science fiction writers. Conversant with all the latest in cosmology and subatomic complexity, he has a rare ability to track those concepts to their intersections with the human heart, in novels that stand as works of high adventure. Highly recommended."
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Standing Wave
(ACE BOOKS, SEPTEMBER 1998 RELEASE)
At the surface of the world's oceans the voices of dolphins in air called excitedly, reacting to what the light had given them
Standing Wave is a free-standing novel which can be read alone or as the second written and second published (but last, in overall story arc) of the loose troika of books that make up the Tetragrammaton series. Lightpaths (ACE 1997) was the first published and first written (but second, in story arc chronology) of the Tetragrammaton novels. Better Angels (November 1999) will be the last published and last written (but first,in story arc chronology) of the Tetragrammaton series.
Standing Wave continues the exploration of good/evil, madness/sanity already seen to a lesser degree in Lightpaths. The scientific authority base for Standing Wave, however, can be found in physics and consciousness theory; the scientific background in Lightpaths was the biological and social sciences.
Standing Wave explores the impermanence of the changes wrought by the flashing of Jiro's "Light" into the universe. SW deals with the counterrevolution of darkness in response to Jiro's revolution of Light. Forces ranging from Fundamentalist soldier/spy Ray Dalke, to the brilliant and psychotic systems master who calls himself Phelonious Manque, to the comatose human-computer and infosphere parallel murderer "Hugh Manatee" -- all these and more array themselves as unknowing pawns in the cosmic game played by the Allesseh, the selfish godlike alien construct who refuses to take the last step of self-sacrifice required of it, a step which, once taken, would allow the universe as a whole to become fully conscious and transcendent.
Spacecraft designer and fireboarder Brandi Easter, Interpol crime profiler and virtuality expert Mei-Ling Magnus, "Hugh Manatee" tender and biomed-computing graduate student Aleck McAleister, Paul and Jacinta Larkin, even Roger Cortland (the "villain" of Lightpaths now reformed and rehabilitated by the Light) -- all of these and their many friends and connections on the side of the Light run through the five major plotlines of earthly murders and heavenly physics in Standing Wave, weaving a tale in which the fate of individuals, cities, nations, humanity, and even the universe itself hangs in the balance. The characters in Standing Wave ultimately play for the highest stakes imaginable: the destruction or transcendence of the entire universe.
Bibliography
(Books that influenced my Tetragrammaton series)
- Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and The Dunwich Horror and Others, H.P. Lovecraft
- Order Out of Chaos, Prigogine and Stengers
- Cool Memories and America, Jean Baudrillard
- Archaic Revival and True Hallucinations, Terence McKenna
- The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot
- Hyperspace, Michio Kaku
- Black Holes and Time Warps, Kip S. Thorne
- Mazes and Labyrinths, Nigel Pennick
- Black Elk Speaks, John G. Neihardt
- The God Particle, Leon Lederman
- Touch the Earth, T. C. McLuhan
- High Frontier, Gerard K. O'Neill
- Introduction to Permaculture, Bill Mollison
- Perennial Wisdom, Island, Brave New World, Ape and Essence, et al, by Aldous Huxley
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Ecotopia, Ernst Callenbach
- Home! A Bioregional Reader, Van Andruss et al
- The story of Utopias, Lewis Mumford
- Mushrooms Demystified, David Arora
- Chaos, Gleick
- Turbulent Mirror, Briggs and Peat
- Sir Thomas Browne: the Major Works (Penguin edition).
- Between Past and future, Hannah Arendt
- The True believer, Eric Hoffer
- Rules for Radicals, Saul D. Alinsky
- The Essential Gandhi, ed. Louis Fischer
- The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton
- The Golden Bough, James Frazer
- Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
- Structure of Scientific Revolutions, T. S. Kuhn
- Fashionable Nonsense, Alan Sokal
- Moby Dick, Melville
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland and The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
- Recreational Drugs, Young, Klein, Beyer
- Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (Ocean Tree Books)
- The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas
- Ever Since Darwin and The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould
- The Immense Journey and Darwin's Century, Loren Eiseley
- Beowulf
Spears of God
Howard's latest book—Spears of God—is in stores and online. Check it out today.