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By Greg Bear
100,000 years in the past, the galaxy used to be populated via an outstanding number of beings.
But one species--eons past all others in either know-how and knowledge--achieved dominance.
They governed in peace yet met competition with fast and brutal effectiveness.
They have been the Forerunners--the keepers of the Mantle, the subsequent level of lifestyles within the Universe’s residing Time.
And then they vanished.
This is their story.
Bornstellar Makes everlasting Lasting is a tender rebellious Forerunner. he's a Manipular, untried--yet to turn into a part of the grownup Forerunner society, the place great wisdom and accountability waits. He comes from a kin of developers, the Forerunners’ optimum and such a lot politically strong price. it's the developers who create the grand know-how that enables Forerunner dominance over the recognized universe. it's the developers who think they have to shoulder the best burden of the Mantle--as shepherds and guardians of all life.
Bornstellar is marked to turn into an outstanding Builder similar to his father.
But this Manipular has different plans.
He is captivated with misplaced treasures of the previous. His reckless ardour to find the tremendous artifacts left in the back of by means of the Precursors--long-vanished superbeings of unknowable energy and intent---forces his father’s hand.
Bornstellar is distributed to reside one of the Miners, the place he needs to come to phrases with the place his responsibility really lies.
But strong forces are at play. Forerunner society is at an enormous crux. previous threats are once more proving relentless. Dire solutions--machines and methods by no means sooner than contemplated--are being known as up, and fissures in Forerunner strength are resulting in chaos.
On a Lifeworker’s experimental planet, Bornstellar’s rebellious direction crosses the trails of 2 people, and the lengthy lifeline of an excellent army chief, eternally altering Bornstellar’s future …and the destiny of the full galaxy.
This is a story of lifestyles, loss of life, intergalactic horror, exile, and adulthood. it's a tale of overwhelming change--and of human origins. For the Mantle would possibly not lie upon the shoulders of Forerunners without end.
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It’s one thing to read in a book that “the map is not the territory”* and another to have your armies rolled over by your opponent in a game. When the latter happens because your map didn’t adequately reflect what was going on, you’re gonna get the point even if the actual armies aren’t marching into your suburban home. The distinctions between toys and games, or between play and sport, start to seem a bit picky and irrelevant when you look at them in this light. There’s been a lot of hay made over how play is non-goal-oriented and games tend to have goals; over how toys are aimed at pointless play rather than being games; about how make-believe is a form of play and not a game.
This is the part of the brain that packages things up and chunks them. This part of how we think isn’t something we can access directly—it doesn’t use words. It’s also frequently wrong. It’s the source of “common sense,” which is often self-contradictory (“look before you leap, but he who hesitates is lost”). * 28 29 The last kind of thinking is not thinking. * Calling this “muscle memory” is a lie. Muscles don’t really have memory. They’re just big ol’ springs that coil and uncoil when you run electrical current through them.
He has exhausted the fun, consumed it all.