Quantum Sci-Fi, worthy fiction?
Aug 5, 11:17 AM by Administrator
First of all, if you aren’t a Christian, or if you are close-minded towards Christianity, please stop reading here. This article is written to those with rational Christian mindsets, and not anyone who believes in things like string theory, quantum entanglement, or evolution.
Quantum sciences are, by nature, an oxymoron. What I mean is, you can suppose and infer something is or works in a certain way, yet you cannot prove it by sheer nature of its definition. This is in direct breech of the scientific method, and as such I can’t call the quantum branch a science. The quantum sciences cannot even produce a law so terse or accurate as Newton, the man who made up (his own words!) calculus because standard math wasn’t good enough!
John Meaney, author of the “Nulapeiron Sequence” series, is easily deduced to be an evolutionist, agnostic, marxian-influenced, author. However, unlike most fiction authors there is a lack of depth to Meaney’s works. I’ll get to this shortly.
The Nulapeiron Sequence begins simply enough, like any science fiction tale written in the last decade. The story quickly diverges from that initial point. The world is all subterranean and is dominated by a strata-enforced caste system of nobility, freedman, and slave. The layers of social stratum and the controls in place are quite clever initially, but then abandoned for the “life” above the lowest stratum. The novel took a turn midway through a series of events that altered the story enough that I ceased reading deeply; I didn’t feel the book worth that much attention.
The one key crux to the whole book is referred to as mu-space, which is Meaney’s own personal opinion of hyperspace (a common quantum-space hypothesis). Through this mu-space oracles look through time to predict events they foresee, either past or present. At least the oracles aren’t wholly sane.
One of the strange parts about the book is Meaney’s noncommittal nature about many things. Firstly, his hero is an anti-hero—almost an anti-anti-hero. Secondly, the near distinction between his labeling of the oracle’s sexual tastes as horrible perversions (which he never reveals), and yet never truly deals with categorizing homosexuality (of which there are several references to). I don’t suggest he rides the fence upon his opinion upon the second, but merely that he expresses neither side of the argument within the book. However, his silent acceptance of the presence of the character who admitted his deviancy can be taken as acceptance. Doubtless there are other examples of this fence-riding nature, this alluded acceptance or refusal, but I have no desire to read through the books again.
One thing to note is that the author, while appearing to accept homosexuals as “normal,” is himself heterosexual. However, he’s no Christian as will become clear.
The book is dry reading to me. Written like a vague physicist’s extrapolation upon a millennium of mathematical and quantum advance, where this knowledge becomes all important. Unfortunately, he skews the Greek work of logos into logosopher to describe a person well versed in the extreme quantum-mathematical nuances of the universe. There is enough detail in most places, but not about the society.
The book leads the reader down two paths, the past and the present of the setting. You see through the eyes of three characters, then two, the events that lead up to the setting and the significance within the setting.
Meaney is an obvious believer in the theory of all, which he has be discovered in his first book by a genius that doesn’t reappear until the end of the second. (Hmm, could you tell the importance of that discovery?) Likewise, he interprets this theory into a chain-of-pearls style explanation for infinite self-replicating fractal universes that are daisychained together into the string of pearls. I found no true explanation for the import it was given, aside from the advancement of the main character Tom from plebeian into the nobility.
Somehow, Tom manages to kill an Oracle in vengeance for his father’s death. Using an artifact given to him to rewire the Oracle’s perceived future he was able to overcome the foresight and kill the man. Personally, this implies that both men had godlike powers. Tom had a subversive sort to bypass the other’s near omniscient foreknowledge.
The story only gets stranger. Tom is throughout these books chased by not one, not two, but three women who want him. A love square! One was the noble young lady who purchased him, another was his co-servitor to this lady, and the other was hidden until the second book: his own bodyguard as a noble, a woman responsible for the book’s start inspection of his family. The first two women tangle and the lady is nearly killed, but Tom rescues her in time. Presumably the servitor in love with him perished in the following explosion, the price of her rebellion against her mistress I suppose. Tom then later, he was always madly in love with that noblewoman, proceeds to make the mistake of bedding this noblewoman … when trying to find his bodyguard who he finally realized that he loved.
Like you might guess from my example above, Meaney does a really bad job in showing the sacredness of a man’s love with a woman and the importance of fidelity. All through the book there are allusions to Tom’s vices, being something of a womanizer, as he goes through his “conquests.” Fortunately only one or two of these scenes had descriptiveness in them, and I was warned enough to skip the page. But that doesn’t, in my mind, justify their presence. For being a strict egalitarian, Meaney sure makes his women into worthless harlots! (At least Elva, Tom’s “true” love, was portrayed semi-decently in this series.)
The end of the book is a quantum paradox. A “god-seed” attempts to wipe out the human race and a being in mu-space, the first man to die in it, returns to save mankind and destroy the matured god-seed. And peace reigns in the end. But then again, other “gods” still exist in anomalous/mu-space now don’t they?
It is a truly bizarre set of books with little, to no, grounding in reality. The author is a pro-homosexual with an attitude of intellectual narcissism, he constantly portrays the smart people as the only worthy, of unchangeable fate, and of marxian amorality so strong I will jokingly say that Meaney was impounded in a marxian bootcamp for indoctrination as a child.
One thousand one hundred pages, or thereabout, of reading with another five hundred still on the library shelf. Could modern fiction be any more worthless? Any more disappointing? Through all his allusions to man’s ascending state, to the laughable upward progress of man through the trails of mortality to godhood, Meaney weaves a trail of worthless fiction.
I wouldn’t buy a book of his, nor would I accept one as a gift unless I required fuel for my fireplace. It isn’t worth the ignition of the paper it’s printed on to heat my mortal frame.
John Meaney, this is not a personal attack, but I truly wish you’d come to see the truth—instead of your quantum delusions. The blind narcissism of evolutionism has already enraptured several generations with delusions of becoming gods, and I am ashamed of the gullibility of my own race. Meaney even speaks of certain AIs or creations as being created, not evolved, when he denies the easily grasped created nature of the universe.
Ancient out-dated theories are this man’s trade, I strongly warn all Christians to keep his books from their children, themselves, and their friends. The doubts they’ll raise in children, them being the most easily influenced, would be catastrophic indeed.