A review by slim_oysterhiatus
The Idiot Gods by David Zindell

5.0

A fiction that demonstrates the truth of what humans are doing to the natural world, but from a totally unique perspective which forces the reader to consider the thoughts, feelings, and actions of non-human beings. Told from the point of view of Arjuna, an orca once captured and made to preform at an aquarium, who learns to communicate with humans in an attempt to understand why they are destroying the world, to convince them to change their ways, and to live in harmony with other animals, this book is desperately sad, deeply philosophical, breathtaking, bewildering, and beautiful.