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Alien Embassy (1977)

af Ian Watson

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Lila Makindi grows up in East Africa in a peaceful and harmonious 22nd century world, which has succeeded our own age of extravagance, environmental damage, and warfare.Its citizens know that the Space Communications Administration, better known as Bardo, is guiding the planet benevolently, thanks to contact with wise aliens by means, not of grandiose spaceships, but of psychic travel powered by the sexual techniques of tantric yoga. Wonderfully, Lila is chosen for psychic starflight. But she discovers that in reality mental starflight is spinning a web of protection around the world to safeguard the human race from a malign alien energy force, the Starbeast. Yet is this the true reality? Only when Lila travels to Tibet does she discover the actual, unexpected purpose behind Bardo.… (mere)
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El hombre ha conseguido entrar en contacto con otras razas alienígenas; no físicamente, a través del vuelo espacial, sino mentalmente, a través del desarrollo de ancestrales disciplinas físico-mentales. Y Lila Makindi, una muchacha africana del siglo XXII, se prepara cconcienzudamente para entrar a formar parte de la élite de seres humanos que están en comunicación con estos nuevos amigos del más allá del espacio. Su meta es convertirse en una embajadora psíquica ante esas razas alienígenas benevolentes de una avanzada civilización.
  Natt90 | Jan 10, 2023 |
Watson, Ian. Alien Embassy. 1977. 2nd ed. Afterword by Ian Watson, 2006. E-book ed, Orion, 2011.
In his Afterword to the updated edition, Ian Watson explains his goals and inspirations for Alien Embassy. First, he says, he wanted to create a Tanzanian utopia based on his teaching experience there in the 1960s. He tells the story from the perspective of an African woman, Lila, who dreams of flying to the stars. She lives 200 hundred years after the Bad Old Days of rocket ships and environmental devastation. Star travel is now a technologically enhanced out-of-body experience managed by BARDO (Bureau of Astromancy Research and Development Organisation). One briefly inhabits the bodies of receptive sentients in nearby star systems. This experience is not an unmixed blessing, and the universe turns out to be something that Lila never imagined. Watson is a stylist whose influences include Philip K. Dick, Graham Greene, Michael Moorcock, and perhaps Roger Zelazny. His mix of science and Asian mysticism may not be for everyone, but it still works on its own terms. 4 stars. ( )
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Lila Makindi grows up in East Africa in a peaceful and harmonious 22nd century world, which has succeeded our own age of extravagance, environmental damage, and warfare.Its citizens know that the Space Communications Administration, better known as Bardo, is guiding the planet benevolently, thanks to contact with wise aliens by means, not of grandiose spaceships, but of psychic travel powered by the sexual techniques of tantric yoga. Wonderfully, Lila is chosen for psychic starflight. But she discovers that in reality mental starflight is spinning a web of protection around the world to safeguard the human race from a malign alien energy force, the Starbeast. Yet is this the true reality? Only when Lila travels to Tibet does she discover the actual, unexpected purpose behind Bardo.

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