Celestial Matters

By Richard Garfinkle
Tor Books, $23.95

ISBN 0312859341

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Review by Larry D. Woods

Close to the level of Cherryh and Silverberg is Celestial Matters by Richard Garfinkle. Like Greg Bear, Garfinkle attempts a cosmological reinterpretation of the universe which can be read on several different levels. Garfinkle creates an alternate history of the planet Earth where Aristotle developed technology and empirical science, where Athens, Sparta, and the Han Chinese dominated the modern world. The story also works as a universal journey where crash and survival have reinvented the world.

Larry D. Woods, an attorney, is an avid reader of science fiction.

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