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    Splendor

    By David Zindell

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    Why did the world get so screwed up? How can we best live in it? What can we do to find meaning and purpose in our lives when it seems we might destroy the earth?

    As visionary as the author’s novels, David Zindell’s memoir Splendor interweaves the intensely personal and the spiritual into a brilliant tapestry of literature, history, science, and evolution. Both a philosophical thriller and an age-old quest ranging over millennia, it also recounts meetings with Timothy Leary, Robin Williams, Ken Wilber, and others famous, infamous, and unknown who shaped the true Greatest Generation known as the Baby Boomers.

    From the terror of nuclear annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis to the shootings at Kent State and Virginia Tech, which touched the author personally, Zindell’s new book tells of how a writer seeks experience and how that is translated into literature – and how writing itself can be an expression of the mysterious evolutionary force called splendor. This is one person’s story and everyone’s, for the flowering of our inherent splendor that will lead to a new way of living on earth is really just the story of the human race and how we will find our way toward an almost unimaginably brilliant future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Zindell
    Release dateMay 9, 2015
    ISBN9781310571282
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    David Zindell

    David Zindell’s short story Shanidar was a prize-winning entry in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. He was nominated for the ‘best new writer’ Hugo Award in 1986. Gene Wolfe declared Zindell as ‘one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson – perhaps the finest.’ His first novel, Neverness was published to great acclaim.

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