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A review by traveller1
Beyond the Doors of Death by Robert Silverberg, Damien Broderick
4.0
Ummm, the original novella I first read many years ago, and was blown away. Silverberg can write. Now the sequal, a full generation later. I approached with feelings of trepidation, should there be a sequel, if so, why a new author? However, I took the plunge. Overall, it is a good story, but not a patch on the first. There are several new technical and scientific details given, but they add little to the story—tech does not need to be explained to be believed in a novel.
Any who, the important bit. The sequel moves forward. Live humans come to persecute the dead humans (rekindled). War ensues, but we are told that the tech to rekindle comes via a signal from the Andromeda Galaxy. Our hero Klein travels there (more advanced tech), in a thousand year journey, and discovers that the fate of intelligent life is perpetual warfare between the living and the rekindled of each species. Umm.
Overall, not half bad as an idea, and adequately executed, but it did not 'feel' like a Silverberg. S can create a entrapping, word picture.
Any who, the important bit. The sequel moves forward. Live humans come to persecute the dead humans (rekindled). War ensues, but we are told that the tech to rekindle comes via a signal from the Andromeda Galaxy. Our hero Klein travels there (more advanced tech), in a thousand year journey, and discovers that the fate of intelligent life is perpetual warfare between the living and the rekindled of each species. Umm.
Overall, not half bad as an idea, and adequately executed, but it did not 'feel' like a Silverberg. S can create a entrapping, word picture.