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well, that certainly exists, and it wasn't terrible, but it was just kind of, . . there. I don't even know. Scientists vs notthinlyenoughdisguised Catholic Church, An interesting idea in terms of the world itself, and some people's relation to religion and I have no problem with exploring the tension between science and religion in fiction, at all.
But I am bored by stories that can't make the religion interestingly different enough from what I can find in our world, and I especially found the tension in this story not nearly nuanced enough for my liking.
This steampunky alternate history tells of a religious society whose sacred text claims that humanity was createdyears ago.
When an astronomer priest innocuously dares to challenge the churchs teachings, he is captured by a secret organization that has a deep interest and knowledge of the matter.
A secret mission to a far off island may or may not confirm the truth, Filled with action and drama, this novella deftly addresses questions of religious dogma and the human desire for scientific understanding.
My guess is that this novella will garner a number of sympathy votes because of Jay Lakes terminal cancer, but the story deserves recognition on its own merits.
I don't think Steampunk is really my style, This being my first venture into the subgenre, I spent the first few pages distracted by the setting.
Is it the past Is it another planet

I never did figure it out, but once the story got going, I didn't really care.
This is an excellent story,

It's a story about the battle between science and religion, But more than that, it's a story about why they don't need to be at odds with one another.


The religion in this particular story is a fictional one as is the science but I love how the two eventually come together.
This is a story about how, regardless of our method in seeking it, the truth always wins in the end.
Truth is truth.

I think this quote from the book sums it up nicely: "Science finds the path where the light of faith has shown the way.
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Language: None
Violence: A very brief fight scene
Sex: None Another Hugo nominated novella that I needed to read to finish voting.
This one started out looking quite bad for the protagonist in what seemed to be a retelling of Galileo and the Catholic Church.
Not quite the same outcomes but a nice twist to the story,.stars, really. Wellwritten and an intriguing world, but

doesn't really go anywhere, Sigh. I'm starting to realise that if you're a novelette/novella, you'd damn well better impress me with either a gouging my heart out of my chest with emotion, b legit unexpected plot twists, or c a suckerpunch of an ending.
This novelette was riveting from the opening paragraph, and held my attention as the intrigue built up and became more complex.
And then suddenly everything stopped making sense, and it ended abruptly leaving the reader with no clue what was going on.
The Stars Do Not Lie is a secondaryworld Galileo story with some interesting twists, It's an approximately steampunk level of technology electricity is spreading, radio has been invented, and airships are the elite mode of transportation.
The politically powerful Church defends a creation myth that has humanity created in eight separate locations by the Increate, a belief challenged when a naive, ambitious astronomer tries to publicize his finding of a spaceship approaching the planet and his theory that humanity was deposited, rather than created.


It's a great, detailed bit of worldbuilding, with various political factions, secret societies, and social pressures all apparent without overwhelming the story.
The prose is perfectly suited to the tone, and the descriptions are vivid and lovely, Lake also does a welcome bit of poking atthcentury racial attitudes by flipping them white people are described as creepy and animalistic, unsuited to higher positions, and the darkestskinned people are the handsomest and bestbred.
It comes across as dreadfully unsubtle, but that just makes me wonder how much of the typical attitude I skim over without ever noticing it.


Definitely a strong contender, and possibly my favorite so far, Some great world building here, especially for a novella, Novella published in Asimov's magazine , Another review called this steampunk, I guess that's true. As far as I could tell, the story takes place on a planet colonized by humans,years ago.
As such, technology has developed differently from our Earth, and the political and religious institutions are all different.
That makes for a lot of confusing terminology, At novella length, the story is too short to make it feel worthwhile to wade through all the lingo.


At its heart the story is about a scientist who discovers proof that humans came to this planet,years ago, rather than being placed there by the gods I think as the main religion taught.
The characters are kind of neat, and the setting has some promise, but the ultimate payoff is not fantastic.
An interesting comparison between the struggles of faith and science, but it stayed too slow for me and I didn't really identify with any of the characters.
It finally did start to pick up about half way through, but the ending felt a little empty.
I thought the different sides interesting but this didn't really capture me, I would have preferred either shorter or to actually go into more world building, Dosyć długa opowieść o alternatywnej ludzkości, która wierzy, że trafiła na planetęlat temu dzięki bogom.
Nauka rozwinęła się inaczej niż na Ziemi i nie stanowi aż takiej potęgi, jak obecnie.
Społeczeństwem rządzą dwie główne siły, chociaż mogłaby być to jedna partia w rodzaju "Prawo i Religijność" lub "Prawo i Inkwizycja".


Ale odkrycia naukowe coraz śmielej wchodzą na zakazane terytoria, dlatego główny bohater to młody i bardzo zdolny naukowiec, który dzięki najnowszemu teleskopowi odkrył na niebie niezwykły obiekt.
Próbując ogłosić swoje udokumentowane rewelacje całemu światu, zostaje szybko odsunięty od mównicy i pojmany.
Nawet nie podejrzewa, w jakie wpadł tarapaty podważając dogmaty religijne, Chce dotrzeć do Prawdy, ale jaki koszt poniesie cała ludzkość, gdy jej podstawy runą

Historia zapowiada się bardzo ciekawie.
Świat został zbudowany kolorowo i plastycznie, Z ogromnym zaangażowaniem słowotwórczym autor wciąga nas w swoją wizję, Jednak mimo tak wyraźnego tła, sama fabuła jest maksymalnie uproszczona, Brak jej urozmaiconych wątków, nacisk został położony na pokazanie świata i opis postaci, a nie na bardziej filozoficzne rozwinięcie wątku religia kontra nauka.


Poza tym nikt nie lubi słabych zakończeń, a w tym przypadku jest ono nijakie.
Plus za piękny świat i opisy, ale moim zdaniem duża pomyłka z tyloma nominacjami do nagród.
interesting but a bit jumbled, The ageold tugofway happens on a colonized planet where people have forgotten that humanity has been anywhere else.
Good resolution. Did not finish I tried, since it's on the Hugo ballot for this year, but it's just not holding my attention.
This book reflected an incredible amount of effort in developing the plot and the alternate world used by the author.
The tension between science and theology makes up much of the theme, Reads shouldn't pick up the book expecting a grand adventure tale, although one is woven into the plot structure.
The book is geared to take the reader on an intellectual journey that considers similar controversy in our world today.
I found the ending well framed with the beginning and it brought about a satisfying conclusion that leaves the reader with thoughts and questions to ponder.
A scientist tries to disprove creationism, and a priest tries to stop him, What we have here is a boring character in an interesting story and an interesting character in a boring story.
On an airship because why not, The worldbuilding basically consists of coming up with weird names for Catholic sects and flipping the skin color of the dominant race for no apparent reason, and, although I was mildly engaged in what was going to happen with the scientist and his earthshattering observation, the payoff was underwhelming.
Also, even though it's the shortest of the novellas nominated for a Hugo, it's way too long.
SF stories often come up with great introductory sentences, This one must be one of the worst inventing an incomprehensible mud of abbreviations trying to add atmosphere:
Morgan Abutti B.
Sc. Bio. M. Sc. Arch. Ph. D. Astr. amp Nat, Sci.th degree Thalassocrete Member, Planetary Society and Associate Fellow of the New Garaden Institute, stared at the map that covered the interior wall of his tiny office in the Institutes substantial brownstone in downtown Highpassage.


The whole novella is a kind of cover version of sitelinkGalileo thinly disguised in an alternate world.
The original masterpiece by Bertold Brecht addresses scientist's ethical responsibility in a way that this novella simply doesn't reach at all.
Do yourself a favour and read sitelinkGalileo instead of wasting your time with this overlong work by Lake.


In conclusion I don't understand how this came to Hugo and Nebula award nominations or how it got to be part of sitelinkThe Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection.

Inventive, caught me up quickly, A very nicely flavored world, with differences understandable while strange, Light plot, but enough to keep me moving, I get it. Blindly following religion is a bad idea, But this novella is incomplete! It starts to build a world and then drops the plot, I'm confused as to why it got nominated, This would be a good start to a story, but it pretty much ends in the middle.
Nothing is actually explained. Also, the relationship between the two quasiCatholic branches is never really clarified either, So, interesting concept, but very incomplete execution, Starts out a bit stodgy, but soon turns into great fun, A bit of a scifi throwback, stylistically and thematically, I kept thinking of that Monty Python sketch, . . "To the Popemobile!" Read as part of theHugo packet,

Couldn't get into this one, Just not for me. I really like the world Lake has created here but the ending left me cold, And there's barely one woman character, Sigh. Unfortunately, I bounced off of this selection, It didn't pull me in. I couldn't relate to the characters, the steam punk setting was just that steam punk, and I was not interested in the religion vs science storyline.
I haven't read anything by Jay Lake since Green inwhich was fantastic and what a travesty it is!! He is such a wordsmith with an incredibly fluid prose.
Granted, I may be gilded by the fact I enjoy any attack on organized religion regardless of sect, but I thoroughly romped my way though this doctrinevsscience novelette with glee.
Jay Lake lived in Portland, Oregon, where he worked on multiple writing and editing projects, Hisbook Mainspring received a starred review in Booklist, His short fiction appeared regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide, Jay won the John W, Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Endeavour Award, and was a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
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