![]() She comes eventually to express her reverence for the air she breathes – for the world she inhabits – through describing the noosphere as a Library.Īt least one of the five integrated tales making up Doerr's third novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land (coll of linked stories/fixup 2021), is of direct sf interest. She can be understood as a person who radiates something like goodness. Years after the War it is returned to her. The blind protagonist of All the Light We Cannot See ( 2014), a Holocaust survivor (see Holocaust Fiction), has in childhood been separated from a jewel known as the Sea of Flames, which is purported to bestow Immortality at the cost of misfortune to others. The protagonist of his first novel, About Grace ( 2004), experiences moments of prescience (see Precognition), during one of which he sees his daughter die he spends much of the novel, after the model of the Appointment in Samarra fable, attempting to flee this fate: which he meets. ![]() ![]() (1973- ) US author, active from before the turn of the century. ![]()
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