Talk:Incandescence (novel)

Intro
could some one add more info to intro concerning themes or issues that the novel deals with? 99.140.180.201 (talk) 17:18, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

"The book is based on the idea that the theory of general relativity could be discovered by a pre-industrial civilisation" This statement is true but it's very misleading. The pre-industrial civilization in question is very unusual in that exists in the accretion disk of a rotating black hole with an incoming second body. This makes some relativistic effects far more obvious and important than they otherwise would be. --96.241.156.174 (talk) 02:33, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

"The two stories come together in a complex twist which involves a kind of past/future first contact role reversal." Where does this claim come from? I just finished the book, and as far as I can see, the two stories do not come together at all. I've thought of several ways in which they might be related (e.g., he seems to trying to hint that the aliens who dealt with the Wanderer somehow evolve into the Aloof), but none of them make sense (for the theory above, it would imply that all the myriad races of the galaxy, with a dozen different biochemistries, somehow all evolved within something like 30 million years of each other, which is ludicrous). So, unless there is some clear connection that I missed, I think this part of the plot synopsis should be revised. 69.244.0.74 (talk) 23:01, 8 September 2016 (UTC)


 * (Spoiler) Yes, the Aloof have transcended from the Splinter's occupants. Roi and Haf's conversation at the end of the story about the Splinter is very obviously foreshadowing the Aloof's systems which keep everybody in the Amalgam from entering the middle of the galaxy - where the black hole is. However, the Aloof have recently discovered that their cousins, such as Zey, have this whole time been peacefully carrying on exactly as they themselves were before Wanderer disrupted things. Since the Aloof no longer resemble this state at all they have sent (constructed) Lahl to go find a DNA-based lifeform in the Amalgam and ask them to make the implied moral decision - awaken the dreamers to their potential or leave them to slumber perhaps forever. This is the decision Rakesh is making with Parantham in the penultimate chapter. Roi and Zey are the same species, more or less, just separated by an unknown but likely large period of time. 2001:8B0:FBB0:1247:1B24:1C24:1D24:714 (talk) 15:25, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

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