Queen of Angels

416 Pages·2016·1.75 MB·English

by  Bear Greg

QUEEN OF ANGELS
Greg Bear
Copyright © 1990 by Greg Bear.
Published by E-Reads. All rights reserved.
ISBN-10: 0-7592-9590-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-7592-9590-2
This one is for Alexandra
From before she is born, until long
past 100000000000
Contents
BOOK ONE
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BOOK TWO
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BOOK THREE
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Acknowledgments
BOOK ONE
1100-10111-11111111111

Exercise One: Picture a pattern of trees, stark and black against an ashen
sky. Their branches are etched sharp against the drab neutrality. Their pattern is
fixed and will not change. The gray has no quality, not even the vibrancy of sight
behind closed eyes. More than winter, this is certainty; the final image found in
the eyes of a dead man. Now ask: do you want peace and quiet?

Exercise Two: There is a field of grain, each stalk perfect, which is a field of
men. There is that which is perfect in all men, common to all, and to find that
thing and touch it is to transform all men. Now ask: is perfection certainty, and
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are we only perfect when we are dead?