Transcendent

I'm not much of a continuous reader.But, once in a while i come across books that capture ma imagination,stirring up ma rather unused brains,forcing me to think in a way never before.I vouch ma loyalty towards fiction because i don't have to live in the same space as of ma characters who make me cry,hate and even even love ma self.When we start thinking deep about the people in the story or characters as i prefer to put in,it makes us quite uneasy because we humans love to live in the world of lies,make our self believe that we are living in a perfectly normal world and what if the characters that we love to hate really exist?.Will we be comfortable to believe that what lies beneath is not as perfect as it seems.

TRANSCENDENT:Stephen Baxter,half way through the book and I'm feeling the impact.The unacceptable fact that We are facing a crisis situation:Global warming,energy crisis,inflation.The story moves back and forth two worlds,separated by time.Michael Pool's world,world in the middle of 21st century trying to adapt to the changing climatic scenario, a byproduct of human ignorance.His world is inter twined with Alia's world ,an evolved human form forced to live life of a Transcendent not by choice but, by destiny.

Concept that this fiction is based upon is not over the head but, modelled on what our world will look like in coming years.It may not have any direct implication on ma limited life but, will be the world of the future.The very thought that i maself will be depriving ma children of the limited luxuries i enjoy at the moment hits me hard.The book cannot be drubbed as a science fiction without anything worthy of human emotion.The book is about individuals and the EARTH as such.I have heard ma cousins say about late sirArthur C Clarke,his space odyssey and how it inspired an entire generation of space exploration.Deeply attracted,i burned ma midnight oil to read all of the series about years back.While his book gives something to cheer about,A world driven by technological advancement at the end of the solar time itself,while this book goes on to hurt the very human emotions:We are bringing the mankind to the verge of non existence through actions that cannot seem to heal through as rapid reactions as the nature provides.

'The girl from the future told me the sky is full of dying worlds'