Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Theodore Sturgeon. North Atlantic Books. Media Microcosmic God. Save Not today. Format ebook. Author : T. When a young peasant girl is injured while hunting, she meets a strange, magical man who is a member of a despised race - Mujar.
Truemen scorn the shape-shifting unmen for their odd, humble ways, and envy their power over the elements. Mujar do not use their powers for good or evil, they simply exist, immortal and apparently purposeless.
Now a scourge is sweeping the land, armies of mounted warriors who cannot be defeated are wiping out Truemankind without mercy. They are known as the Black Riders, but no one knows where they come from or why they seem bent on exterminating every man, woman and child. Talsy traps the Mujar with gold, which has an odd effect on them, to make him help her, but her father intends to throw him in a Pit, from which he will be unable to escape.
Talsy does not believe the Mujar deserves such a fate, so she frees him and begs him to take her with him on his journey. He agrees, and they set off across Shamarese, continuing his quest to find an old hermit's lost son. There is far more at stake than Talsy realises, however, and she has innocently stumbled upon the last free Mujar, who has the power to decide the fate of her race. This is the forth book in this series that began with an in-depth look at how God views details, communicates with this world, and decides what process to use.
Of course this series of books looked at aspects recorded in scripture about the Tabernacle. How the materials were collected, specific design details, who did the work, and how the Tabernacle was constructed. Much of that information is found in dozens, maybe hundreds of other books about the Tabernacle. But there are details setting this book apart from every other book written about the Tabernacle.
This book takes a verse by verse, story by story, chapter by chapter look at the Tabernacle. In other words, this book presents a picture of the Tabernacle from God's point of view. Which the beginning of this series pointed out, is much different than any human perspective.
The dawning era of nanotechnology promises to transform life as we know it. Visionary scientists are engineering materials and devices at the molecular scale that will forever alter the way we think about our technologies, our societies, our bodies, and even reality itself. Milburn illuminates the practices of nanotechnology by examining an enormous range of cultural artifacts, including scientific research articles, engineering textbooks, laboratory images, popular science writings, novels, comic books, and blockbuster films.
But hey, the fact that society came up with, and deployed the N-bombs shows we are capable enough. And Elon Musk, huge fan btw, might be going down that path. And then, there's the theological aspect of the story. As much as I want there to be a benevolent God, I am afraid I am atheistic in my outlook.
But sometimes I do think that if God exists - it might just be an entity like Kidder. Not necessarily evil. But just has its own agenda, and while it doesn't want us to go extinct, it wouldn't mind killing off a few of us if it somehow helped create what it wants.
The Kidder-neoteric relationship was a perfect depiction of our species' relationship with God, all things considered. Now those are deep waters to tread in - and as a short story, Microcosmic God is very, very successful in handling that. Mar 18, Scott Doherty rated it it was amazing. Kidder is highly secretive and reclusive biochemists whose inventions have transformed human life. Spanning every aspect of science and engineering, Kidder is hailed as the greatest living scientist in human history, but his secret lies in a synthetic life form which he created called "Neoterics.
Ki Kidder is highly secretive and reclusive biochemists whose inventions have transformed human life. Kidder as the God of this microscopic world gives the Neoterics a problem and they return to him with the completed tech that has made him and his banker very rich men. This was an amazing short story and one of the best I have read in quite some time. There is so much crammed into it and it is a pretty fasted paced story.
The characters tho in some ways predictable are likeable and detestable and you really will find yourself rooting for Kidder and his Neoterics. Definitely worth a read! Sep 05, JoeK rated it really liked it. Classic SF. This story was quite a bit of fun, although a little silly as well. At first I thought the Neoterics were some new life form, but near the end of the story Kidder call them his little "people". Considering the terrible experiments he performed on them, decimating the population at times, it is surprising that the Neoterics seemed to treat Kidder as a benevolent god as opposed to a capricious monster.
The story was very reminiscent of George R. Martin's Sandkings , which of course came Classic SF. Martin's Sandkings , which of course came much later. View all 3 comments. Apr 11, Mauricio Garcia rated it liked it. It's an interesting and ever familiar premise, which I figure had its origin with this short story.
I also liked Sturgeon's prose, an elegant and sparse medium to transmit his interesting ideas, but the plot kinda went off the rails when a megalomaniac scheme and the US government got involved all of the sudden during the final act. May 04, Jason rated it liked it Shelves: classic-scifi-short-stories.
Crazy scientist on his own private island creates intelligent life that far exceeds the capabilities of humans. A new world changing power source is developed by the beings and a political power struggle ensues.
Dec 20, Alberto rated it it was amazing. EL Nov 16, Skjam! Shelves: author-s , backlist , published , pulp , sf. Jun 01, Laur-Marian Mertea rated it it was amazing.
I don't want to spoil this too much so I'll just say: Brilliant! A little rough around the edges, but a must read for any type of reader. Jul 08, Marctar rated it really liked it. Co je male, to je hezke Sep 13, Derek Gillespie rated it it was amazing.
Listened to in the SF Hall of Fame v. Capturing and accelerating human-like evolution to "time travel to the future" is just brilliant! What if we could create an intelligent beings that live and evolve much faster than we do?
Then learn from them.
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