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Galileo's Dream () is a science fiction novel with elements of historical fiction written by author Kim Stanley Robinson. It describes the life of 17th-century.
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Does it have to be this way, or can his future be changed and his life spared without unmaking the future? And must science and religion be at odds with one another? The majority of the novel is clearly deeply researched and impressive historical fiction to a large degree. About a third of the book deals with the more fantastic: time travel. In this instance, time and time travel are a major cog, and the philosophy of time and its makeup is debated by Galileo and Hera, one of the Jovian leaders who seeks to protect him in his own time.
Robinson has penned a book that is deserving of attention and admiration. Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson. The Book Report Network. Skip to main content. You are here: Home Reviews Galileo's Dream. Galileo's Dream. Reviewed by Stephen Hubbard on January 22, All Rights Reserved.
And if that means Galileo must be burned at the stake, so be it. From Galileo's heresy trial to the politics of far-future Jupiter, Kim Stanley Robinson illuminates the parallels between a distant past and an even more remote future--in the process celebrating the human spirit and calling into question the convenient truths of our own moment in time. I just love everything KSR writes. His work oozes authority and well-done research.
In addition to that, this book, perhaps in contrast to his Mars books, follows a single character, and as result contains more depth in characterisation. The Galileo KSR pictures in this book is a real man, not a saint. A pretty grumpy old man, too, but I feel I know him as if he's a cantankerous uncle. I loved the far-future sections.
I've seen some reviewers say that they're not necessary, but I think they bring out the essence of the human condition, that is: deep philosophical conflicts and humanity go hand in hand no matter the level of development and sophistication. I found this to be a fascinating tale. Part historical fiction, it tells the remarkable story of the life of Galileo, the first scientist. But there is a science fantasy woven into the tale which puts it into a genre of its own.
I have never read such a book, and would like to read more. I had already read a fair amount about Galileo, including the fairly recent Galileo's Daughter, and knew the basic story of Galileo's persecution and trial by the Church. Robinson has a knack for making those historical figures jump out at you, and so I felt correctly or not that at the end I knew those characters much better than I did before reading the book. Also, Robinson clearly has an understanding of how science and mathematics is practiced, and gives life to what might seem to be repetitive, mistake laden, dull laboratory work.
To the contrary, it is Galileo who is the hero who provides help to those from the future. I will say no more, other than to recommend this as a good read. Robinson has been very philosophic in other books of his I've read, such as Years of Rice and Salt, but I do not remember him being so overtly scientific before, to the point of delivering small lectures on Physics, Calculus and Astronomy.
Through the mouth of Galileo, as penned by Robinson, these lectures are anything but boring.
Galileo's Dream : A Novel
Rather than obsess on the science of the book, I'd rather focus on the art of the book. Robison fancifully posits that Galileo's great leaps in science and technology, beginning with the idea for a telescope, over his contemporaries was due to visits of beings from the moons of Jupiter and actual visits to these moons.
While visiting these locations, his corporeal body on Earth would appear to be in a trance and Galileo would awaken with an imperfect memory of these trips and assume they were a dream, hence the title of this work. Galileo's Dream is not pure fiction, however. At the core of the book is a very gripping biography of the scientist's last 35 years or so of his life. Galileo's battles with the Pope's of his time over Galileo's theory of planetary movement is well documented elsewhere, for example, and plays a large part in the story Robinson gives us.
It is just the background dialog that is built on speculation. While the science fiction aspect of the work is a direct counterpoint to the biographical portions, it blends nicely. Robinson uses these science fiction interludes to introduce another level of intensity to the story. Galileo had enough trouble in real life that could be classified as political, yet here we find him in the middle of an extraterrestrial controversy where he becomes an unwitting pawn in the battle over Europa.
Whether this is a passing nod to Arthur C Clarke or just a coincidence is not clear, but it does make for an interesting twist that this battle is over whether an indigenous life form on Europa should be contacted or left alone. Kim Stanley Robinson rarely disappoints and Galileo's Dream is no exception. The dialog is wonderful and the facts are presented inside a fanciful tale with enough action to keep the pace moving along. This is a book with a little something for almost all readers. Very much worth a full five stars. As a book of historical fiction this book works admirably. Unfortunately the Jovian Story Line almost ruins it.
This part is mixed with the historical passages with brief visits to the distant moons of Jupiter - Galileo travelling through both time and space to discover the colonized moons. To begin with, these passages felt as though they were implanted into the novel in a inept fashion and we readers, suffering the same confusion as the Galileo of this novel must have suffered.
The passages set in the future were roughly sketched, the world-building not living up to the meticulously researched historical sections. Robinson is a writer who is fascinated by science. Not just the knowledge it yields, but also with the entire process of observing, hypothesizing and testing. The many hours of hard work that is involved as well as the scarce moments of new insight. Many of his characters are scientists and their work as well as their impact on society is a frequent theme in his work.
The historical part of this novel was an absolute delight to read. Especially the machinations that lead to Galileo's conviction and the banning of his book by the Vatican are very interesting.
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The Jovian story line was the one which I had most troubles with. It's interesting in it its own way but it cannot balance to absolutely brilliant historical part of the novel. This novel shows the continual fascination with science that gave us science fiction in the first place. That's one of the reasons why I read SF. Galileo lives on through this novel.
This must be some kind of a record for me but not a good one.
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I started this book 2 weeks ago and just finished it. It's pages long but I'm sure I've read books longer than that in less time.
I'm not saying the book isn't good because I enjoyed it; but it's not a book one can whiz through. This book follows the life of Galileo from the time he perfects the telescope until his death. Purely as a work of historical fiction this book would be fascinating. But Robinson is a science fiction writer and so he interposes a visitor from the future who is attempting to change history by having Galileo burned at the stake for heresy. The thinking is that this would cause science to overcome religion earlier. The stranger hopes that this would mean, in his time, that he would be believed about non-human intelligence found on Jupiter and other celetial bodies.
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