Publisher's Weekly
In Kelly's 1987 novella The Glass Cloud , architect Phillip Wing saw his grand vision of an immense floating cloud achieved in such a way that the project, and, he felt, much of his world, was co-opted by the aliens called messengers. This novel extends that story as Wing is convinced by the messengers to take a 50-year journey to the planet Aseneshesh to design the tomb for a dying goddess. Already suspicious of the messengers' New Age religion on Earth, Wing finds himself in a theocracy whose power struggles could easily come to focus on his own work. The characters and background remain vague but Kelly is sensitive to the dislocations Wing feels, from Earth--where his wife becomes a convert to the messenger's religion, to the spaceflight on which a genetically sculptured cancer physically restructures him into an alien.
Library Journal
A disillusioned architect reluctantly accepts an offer from the alien Chani to travel to their world and undertake his most important commission--the construction of a monument to their ``immortal'' priestess. Kelly ( Planet of Whispers ) explores the literal and figurative boundaries of alienation in this evocative novel of a man's search for his own humanity.
In Kelly's 1987 novella The Glass Cloud , architect Phillip Wing saw his grand vision of an immense floating cloud achieved in such a way that the project, and, he felt, much of his world, was co-opted by the aliens called messengers. This novel extends that story as Wing is convinced by the messengers to take a 50-year journey to the planet Aseneshesh to design the tomb for a dying goddess. Already suspicious of the messengers' New Age religion on Earth, Wing finds himself in a theocracy whose power struggles could easily come to focus on his own work. The characters and background remain vague but Kelly is sensitive to the dislocations Wing feels, from Earth--where his wife becomes a convert to the messenger's religion, to the spaceflight on which a genetically sculptured cancer physically restructures him into an alien.
Library Journal
A disillusioned architect reluctantly accepts an offer from the alien Chani to travel to their world and undertake his most important commission--the construction of a monument to their ``immortal'' priestess. Kelly ( Planet of Whispers ) explores the literal and figurative boundaries of alienation in this evocative novel of a man's search for his own humanity.
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Hardback Editions
April 1989 : Hardback
| Title: Look into the Sun Author(s): James Patrick Kelly ISBN: 0-312-93148-4 / 978-0-312-93148-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Tor Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
July 1990 : Paperback
| Title: Look into the Sun Author(s): James Patrick Kelly ISBN: 0-7493-0354-9 / 978-0-7493-0354-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Mandarin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1990 : Paperback
| Title: Look into the Sun Author(s): James Patrick Kelly ISBN: 0-8125-4293-2 / 978-0-8125-4293-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Tor Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1989 : Paperback
| Title: Look into the Sun Author(s): James Patrick Kelly Publisher: Tor Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
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