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We quickly find that the nano-machines left behind by the Preservers are the source of much that appears magical and fantastic in Confluence. Yama's mark of messiah-hood is that he has the ability to control all the machines, and to bend them to his will. Ancients of Days The story in Ancients of Days continues Yama's mercenary life as he defends one department of the bureaucracy from the encroachments of another.

Yama becomes side-tracked and his powers lead him into trouble.

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The simple mercenary job turns into a trap which allows the reader to identify the bureaucrats, and Prefect Corin Yama's escort from Aeolis as 'the enemy' who will dominate the remainder of the narrative, despite Angel. With a brief detour into the nature of Confluence's archives and libraries, Yama continues his quest for his origins. Angel begins to awaken Yama's powers, and, under her influence he accidentally transforms one of the indigenous races the "Mirror People" into a race that can "upload" itself at Confluence's end.

What has previously been understood only as Yama's magic is shown to be the actual workings of nano-technology. Yama's status as saviour of this race is shown to have real scientific origins, but is still miraculous. There are strong Biblical resonances at this point, especially in the carnival procession of peoples which leads Yama out of the city.

However, just as Angel's words serve to draw us away from the language of mythology, Yama's later aspect as angry and demonic destroyer prevents the reader from continuing to read the novels as the picaresque journey of a messiah in training. The folly inherent in following in the footsteps of mythic heroes is revealed, as Yama realises after he has performed his miracle: "Zakiel had told him that, because of the great age of Confluence and the multiplicity of its bloodlines, there were so many stories and tales that anyone could find in them a mirror to their own life.

And so the mirror people had seen in Yama a reflection of some long-dead hero or half-forgotten promise. As one of Yama's fellowship, Eliphas the archivist, comments, "Books are more powerful than the world. One of the devices that achieves this is the conversion of the fantasy elements in its predecessor into terms which are more readily comprehensible as science fiction. This is really just a redeployment of the same idea using a different set of terms: the language of science is, after all, to the non-specialist reader like myself, no more comprehensible than the language of fantasy.

The distinction lies in the value and authority we place in such discourses, and because we place more authority in a discourse of nano-machines than we do in demi-gods and demons, the effect works.

The demon which chases Yama through the first third of Ancients is also a 'feral machine'; the religious transcendence which the 'changed' races aspire to is actually the recording of their memories in the nano-machines which infect them, ready for the their cosmic transfiguration at an unspecified moment in the future. Yet both levels work in The Book of Confluence , so Angel is at once a very real and dangerous power, and a mythic archetype of the devil. A dominant device then is in the transformation of the spiritual into the secular, from the language of the fantastic into the language of logic and science.

McAuley lays bare the construction of his universe from narratives of myth and history. If Yama is to be a messiah, it is so that he can remind us that mythology, Biblical or otherwise, is always narrative told as a way of comprehending events around us. The transforming imperative in Ancients of Days at least is to transform the spiritual into the narrative of science, while still retaining an element of the spiritual.

Yama's miracle with the Mirror People is shown to be no less a miracle, just because Yama has doubts and has powers have a non-mystical explanation. April May June View all months. How do I know if the property is available?

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Very poor vegetarian option on the menu and atrocious understanding of what vegetarian food is. A bowl of defrosted peas with a few florets of limp broccoli and green beans topped by a thin coconut and curry powder sauce does not constitute a vegetable curry. And an insult to any vegetarian. We ate one night in the restaurant and while the food was good price it was average tasting.

Friendly reception and housekeeping staff. Rooms spacious, modern, quiet and clean we had a twin. Great wifi. Shopping centre and supermarket right next door. Nice location to walk by the rivers and close to great public transport. Easy 40 minute walk to the old town. Breakfast a bit poor, not many choices and mainly french style. Generally nice, clean place to stay for a few days, very good location, friendly staff. The breakfast process.

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I felt the staff were good but inexperienced and I could not see any Restaurant Manager or anyone who seemed to be in charge to make sure they all knew what they were doing. The self service nature of the breakfast was fine but there were queues for the hot drinks machine which caused difficulties for people trying to use the buffet and somehow didn't quite work. At least one more hot drinks machine was needed. The room was very comfortable and large for a city hotel room.

The food at breakfast was very good. The only thing I could fault the hotel for, is that the staff started clearing away the foods for breakfast before the people in the restaurant had finished eating. The hotel was lovely. It was clean and comfortable. The position of the hotel was great.

It was close to transport into the city and to a range of shops and restaurants. It was busy during the day, but quiet at night. We slept well. The decor of the hotel was interesting. I particularly liked the large photographs in the walkway to the shopping centre. It is about one mile from the centre of Lyon.

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However there is a v good tram and bus service. Large room. Very good shower. TV in English. It is adjacent to a shopping centre with many restaurants. We were having to check out at 1am to drive to Calais for the morning train. I had emailed this in advance and requested a picnic breakfast as we would miss the breakfast included in our package.

The staff at 1am asked what we would like and collected a large paper bag full of brioche, waffles, Nutella, coffe for the adults, orange juice for the children and fruit. They could not have done any more!

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Excellent service. Breakfast buffet: please overthink the location of the taoster, cereals, bread and marmelade. I am sure you have studies where to locate every piece of food on a buffet, but all in one corner is wrong, maybe. Scrambled eggs: there must be something like "convinience egg" for this kind of goop. Why do you do it at all and when did become opening eggs too difficult?


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Really nice hotel attched to the shopping mall Lyon Confluence.