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Jim Grimsley's previous science fiction novel, The Ordinary, was named one of the Top Ten science fiction books of the year by Booklist and won the Lambda Literary Award. His novels and short stories have been favorably compared to those of Ursula K. Le Guin, Jack Vance, and Samuel R. Delany. Now Grimsley returns to the richly complex milieu of The Ordinary with a gripping tale of magic, science, and an epic clash between godlike forces.
Three hundred years have passed since the Conquest, and the Great Mage rules over all of humanity, even as cybernetic links connect the varied worlds of the empire. Vast Gates allow travel from one planet to another, across unimaginable distances. Choirs of chanting priests maintain order, their songs subtly shaping reality, while the armies of the empire have known nothing but total victory for centuries.
But on the planet Aramen, where sentient trees keep human symbionts as slaves, a power has arisen that may rival that of the Great Mage himself. Hordes of unnatural creatures rampage across the planet, leaving death and destruction in their wake. An inhuman intelligence, cruel and implacable, meets the priests' sung magic with a strange new music of its own. The Anilyn Gate is shut down, cutting off Aramen from the rest of humanity. The long era of peace is over.
Now a handful of traumatized survivors must venture deep into a hostile wilderness on a desperate mission to uncover the source of the enemy's powers. And the future of the universe may depend on the untested abilities of one damaged child. . . .
The Last Green Tree is a worthy successor to The Ordinary and a compelling saga in its own right.
- Sales Rank: #3159969 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Tor Books
- Published on: 2006-11-28
- Released on: 2006-11-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.18" w x 5.70" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 400 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Publishers Weekly
Grimsley's intricate, well-crafted sequel to 2004's Lamba Award– winner, The Ordinary, chronicles the rise of a war between epic forces; on one side is the powerful Mage, ruling an interplanetary empire that includes the interdimensional Anilyn Gate and the planet Aramen. There, the Mage orchestrates a redistribution of wealth between rich and poor, much to the dismay of the wealthy merchant Fineas Figg, the guardian of Keely File, a traumatized but strangely talented 10-year-old boy. But Fineas must soon worry about more than his money, as giant mantis creatures perpetrate a genocide that began as a rebel uprising against the Mage. Keely and Fineas team with the former rebel Kitra Poth and the priest Dekkar, who realizes that a powerful being known as Rao is orchestrating the mantis attack in a challenge to the Mage. Rao is also after Keely, but Dekkar is determined to protect him. The inconclusive ending to this complex work of world-building and large-scale politics seasoned with gore and desperation will have readers anxiously awaiting the next installment. (Dec.)
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From Booklist
In a world ruled by the Great Mage, in which science and magic coexist, a severely traumatized boy and his guardian flee to Aramen after the mage declares a new law stripping them of much of their inheritance. Aramen has just become embroiled in a civil war, with the northern continent fighting for freedom from the mage's rule, that is wreaking more havoc than anyone expected. The sentient trees of the north, which keep human symbiont-slaves, have strange allies bent on destroying all human life on Aramen. Keeley and his guardian flee north with a group of other survivors, including a fallen priest who seemingly retains a few more priestly powers than he should, to find the power behind the destruction. In Keeley, despite his past trauma, may rest the only hope of stopping the godlike being behind all the carnage. Grimsley's yarn is fast paced and adventuresome, and features some interesting gods and their creatures as well as a fascinating, grand-scale dichotomy of magic and science. Regina Schroeder
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Review
"One of the most exciting new voices in science fiction."---Robert Silverberg "An audacious, ambitious, and highly literate author with a unique, inventive, and exotic vision of the future, and a profound understanding of the human heart."---Gardner Dozois, editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies "Besides magic aplenty, there is a beautifully developed spirituality . . .that elegantly evokes a reader's fascination and wonder."---Booklist (starred review) on The Ordinary
"Grimsley's finely textured societies have a clockwork intricacy that fascinates. . . . Unlike many 'literary' authors, who fail when they try to write SF, PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award winner Grimsley has the necessary world-building skills to shine brightly here."---Publishers Weekly on The Ordinary
"The Ordinary is an important novel. . . . Think of high-quality anthropological SF where antithetical societies meet, as in Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness."---Locus on The Ordinary
"In this thoughtful blend of science fiction and fantasy, Lambda Award winner Grimsley questions humanity's tendency to discount what it can't measure."---Library Journal on The Ordinary
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
this review has some spoilers
By Eleanor Skinner
I really enjoyed this book, but was confused about what the ending meant. It's a very gripping book, just like the other Jim Grimsley book I've read. It starts out with a well-written child's point of view, that of a ward of a rich man some of whose money is being confiscated, and then switches to several adult's viewpoints for most of the rest of the book, which I eventually got used to (I like child narrators). There are a lot of words in the various languages of the characters, and it took me a while to get them straight, although there's a glossary in the back. I got them straight by about the middle of the book, when there starts being a high body count, which is kind of sad. The main characters are fleeing the destruction of a continent by that point, going towards the land of a species of sentient trees, in hopes of finding whoever's behind the trees' attack on the continent. Meanwhile, the mage Jessex-Irion has gone sideways in time to consult with God about the identity of the enemy behind the trees' attack, so that his consulting will not take any time in the outside world. And as the main characters flee further north, it looks like the little boy narrator might have talents that will save them. However, at this point God comes in and kills one of the main characters for a goodly number of pages, and I have no idea why. Then the main characters defeat the villain and the novel ends.
Even though I don't understand the reasons for part of the ending it was a very enjoyable book, with a very good mixture of science and magic. Few people could mix them that well, I think. Although I can't think of many people who've tried, apart from Marion Zimmer Bradley. Diane Duane tries to have her magic get along with science in her main series, and, like Grimsley, wrote a fantasy epic about a male magic-user in a relationship with a king. Grimsley started out writing mainstream fiction, then wrote (what seemed to be) a fantasy novel, then introduced science to his world. It's an interesting progression. I wonder if he's always read fantasy, or if someone made him read it and he discovered he loved it.
This book is one of three books about the Hormling people (who developed sciences and are originally from Earth) and the people of the land of Irion (who developed magic). The first book, Kirith Kirin, is out of print and selling for double original price, so I haven't read it. The chronologically second book is The Ordinary. The Last Green Tree happens after both these two books, but they're all standalone. I read The Last Green Tree first. If you read both books (in whichever order) they enrich each other, and you find out more about Grimsley's world's history.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Elder Gods rule the Universe, but now the stars are going out...
By Peter D. Tillman
Theological Engineering exam: Elder Gods rule the Universe, but now the stars are going out. What will They do now?
Jim Grimsley ably takes on this Zelaznian line of inquiry in his third F/SF book, set in the same universe as Kirith Kirin (2000) and The Ordinary (2004), both also recommended. Grimsley is becoming something of an American Iain Banks: his literary novels have also been well-received. The Last Green Tree may be his best book yet: an unusually successful blend of high fantasy, careful SF worldbuilding, stargates, high-tech warfare, and mysterious godlike beings pulling the strings. The appropriately enigmatic ending suggests More to Come. I hope so.
Recommended review: Paul Di Filippo's, at scifi[dot]com
Happy reading--
Peter D. Tillman
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
The true union of sci-fi and fantasy
By Dan S.
Spoilers used below, so beware...
The saga that began in Kirith Kirin and continued through The Ordinary culminates here. At least for now anyway. There is a very interesting thread to this series of books in that Kirith Kirin starts in a world of fantasy, The Ordinary moves to a world where fantasy and sci-fi collide and The Last Green Tree takes us all the way into sci-fi.
Great Irion (Jessex from Kirith Kirin) is now the distant, demigod ruler of all of humankind, both the Erehjen of Iraen and the Hormling of Senal. His niece Malin serves as his regent from the space station Grand Wheel. Just as the Twil Gate connects the extradimensional world of Iraen to the planet Senal and the rest of the universe, a second Gate has been created in space to connect Senal to a distant planet far across the cosmos. The Hormling have expanded their commerce to this faraway world, and it's strange native inhabitants who are basically sentient trees.
An alien menace now threatens humanity, with "magical" power even greater than Irion's. But unlike the Erehjen, these strange creatures do not attach any of the trappings of sorcery to their powers. With ruthless efficiency they slaughter all humans in their path, even the mage-priests of the Erehjen.
Recognizing that this new enemy is led by a "god", Irion goes on a quest to find his own God (Yy-Mother from Kirith Kirin). After centuries of interaction with the technologically advanced Hormling, Irion himself has come to the realization of the truth of Clake's Third Law: any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic. Irion now believes that his "magic" is really just a kind of super-science, which in turn leads him to a crisis of faith in regards to the divinity of his God. Is she truly a "god"? Or is she just a sufficiently advanced alien? Once he meets her in person this question will lead to ugly consequences...
The Last Green Tree takes us fully away from the fantasy world of Kirith Kirin and brings us to an examination of what lies beyond technological singularity. In the end, are "magic" and "science" really two things or just one? And what does that mean about those beings that mortals call gods?
If it has any shortcoming it is that there is still a sense that this story had more to be said, but did not say it. Whether this is because Grimsley intends another novel or because he just wanted it that way is unknown.
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