Ghosts of the Multiverse edition by Harald Hansen Literature Fiction eBooks
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Jeremy Fade is a desperate man. An engineer turned salesman, a father and husband, he sees ghosts. He would like to resist reality, but reality has a forceful way of intruding itself. Finally, a ghost speaks to him, and his life changes forever.
Fade’s middle daughter Angua needs help; his oldest has begun on a bad path, while his young son, he finds, is a mystery to him. But how does he address these problems when a ghost brings him news of a nuclear terror plot?
Ghosts of the Multiverse is the hilarious story of something very serious indeed. The new Central Asian nation of Wyrigistan has decided, through an open and fair process, that San Francisco is the most evil city in the world. What the world does not know is that Wyrigistan has acquired nuclear weapons from a fanatical Islamist group and is seriously evaluating the use of one of their precious few nuclear weapons to destroy San Francisco.
Set in San Francisco in the near future, Ghosts of the Multiverse is the first of a series that exploits quantum physics and the polycosmic interpretation to explore and occasionally satirize this world we live in.
The novel clearly explains that the human mind is the most important thing in the universe. And yet many of us are often unhappy, our central role in the polycosmos is not enough. This situation is absurd. Perhaps a grand conspiracy is at work. Do the Aesir gods of the ancient Norse really exist? Are they behind the scenes, pulling strings?
Or is Islam really the answer? In the Islamic faith, some kinds of love are forbidden, but some kinds of very kinky sex are permitted, and in San Francisco, actively encouraged.
Somehow, this mix of nuclear terror, love and physics comes together to tell the story of a man, his family and faith. In the best traditions of Tom Sharpe and Neil Gaiman, Harald Hansen has tried to tell a story in the style of Neal Stephenson. Failing at that endeavor, something unique resulted a novel that is clearly science fiction and yet also a novel of ideas that emphasizes the central role of love.
The satirical side of the novel skewers the Great American University, a thinly disguised U.C. Berkeley, where it is the administrators that make a great university great.
Ghosts of the Multiverse edition by Harald Hansen Literature Fiction eBooks
This is a fascinating jumble of exaggerated and subtly humorous threads on religion, politics, sociology, physics, software engineering, mythology, and sex (yes, this book is R rated), tossed onto the mundane life of a Willie Loman-like hero. But the story fell apart for me in the climactic scene where all these wild ideas collide in chaos rather than coalescing into any intelligible pattern. If it had worked it would have reminded me of an old Pink Panther movie scene where all the characters race through the village square one after another in a chase including someone in a gorilla suit driving a convertible. Unfortunately, I got confused, and although the story continues, the remaining scenes fail to adequately illuminate the meaning. Despite my disappointment with the overall structure of this novel I liked the style, and I eagerly look forward to reading other works by Hansen. He seems like a kindred spirit who has read my own novels in a parallel universe and glued their concepts together again into his own kaleidoscopic vision of reality.Product details
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Ghosts of the Multiverse edition by Harald Hansen Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
OK, for me this book is ultimately optimistic. It's the first time I ever felt any hope that Islamism can work out and co-exist with the modern world. We do not have to kill them all, and as Hansen argues, we consider wiping out the source of terrorism at our own peril.
The ghosts in this book really made me think. It was the whole tie into the physics of quantum theory that puts the human mind into the most important position in the universe. And it is us that creates the ghosts. The implication is that the most creative people are making the most ghosts. And the ghosts in turn are helping the creative people.
I love this idea. For the first time in my life I think I might have a slight clue about what physics really is. Hansen explains that our brains are really the most important thing in the universe, or multiverse, or whatever it is, and why. I feel a bit better about the world, more hopeful.
I really appreciate the way Hansen brings up Roberto Calasso. He is one of the greatest writer of ideas that there ever was. The Ruin of Kaisch changed the way I think forever. Ghosts borrows freely from that book and from many others like Lord of the Rings.
But really this is a funny book. I laughed a lot. I think there are references to the Iron Dream buried in the whole satirical section on U.C. Berkeley. The description of the admin woman who literally has orgasms over increasing her power is hysterical.
The San Francisco scenes are very real, but he doesn't get all the one way streets right. This was annoying to me.
Also, there is also a family story buried in here. This book was right on target. Funny and close to the bone. A couple of the conversations go on too long. The family discussions that revolve around song lyrics are just like the way we talk to teens - on good days anyway.
There is a lot of sex, so this is not appropriate for teens. Adults only! The section on fisting is very funny, but definitely not for the kids.
This is definitely not your typical read! The author dips in and out of reality, Neil Gaiman style, in a fantastically amusing and entertaining way. I wasn't always sure of the choices Hansen made, but that was the crux of the fun and the reason why I have lately been loving my bus ride home. Especially dig the sense of humor!
Maybe it's just me, but this book drove me so crazy I stopped reading about 1/3 the way through. I virtually never do this, but this just irritated me.
I loved "Ghosts of the Multiverse". It's like Terry Pratchett meets Neal Stephenson. The book packs strong message with a clear and unique worldview within a funny, outrageous, sometimes shocking, but always thought-provoking and beautifully written story. Hansen nails the typical San Francisco/Berkeley mentality and gives it a good skewering. His main character, Jeremy Fade, is forever wrestling with his own inadequacy as a man, a father, and a businessman in his daily fast-paced Bay Area life when a ghost appears and presents him with the opportunity to save the city from nuclear disaster at the hands of extremists. Along the way we meet a diverse and unique cast of characters, some intent on destruction as well as a band of unlikely brothers, led by Fade, that come together to fight against extremism and save the City. In the process, we learn that Fade is above all, a kind and loving father, a brilliant geek who quotes Milton when nervous and uses examples from Norse mythology as points of reference, and, ultimately, a hero.
This is a fascinating jumble of exaggerated and subtly humorous threads on religion, politics, sociology, physics, software engineering, mythology, and sex (yes, this book is R rated), tossed onto the mundane life of a Willie Loman-like hero. But the story fell apart for me in the climactic scene where all these wild ideas collide in chaos rather than coalescing into any intelligible pattern. If it had worked it would have reminded me of an old Pink Panther movie scene where all the characters race through the village square one after another in a chase including someone in a gorilla suit driving a convertible. Unfortunately, I got confused, and although the story continues, the remaining scenes fail to adequately illuminate the meaning. Despite my disappointment with the overall structure of this novel I liked the style, and I eagerly look forward to reading other works by Hansen. He seems like a kindred spirit who has read my own novels in a parallel universe and glued their concepts together again into his own kaleidoscopic vision of reality.
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