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A review by nwhyte
10 Billion Days & 100 Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse
3.0
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2293205.html[return][return]I was a little baffled at first, as we moved from Plato to Buddha to Jesus as incarnations of non-human entities; was this a Shaggy God story? Though I'll admit that it was very interesting to see a non-Christian writer's take on the New Testament, and in the end the Buddha and sf do seem to find a harmonious coexistence after exciting and occasionally confusing conflicts. I finished it rather puzzled; the book seemed to owe a lot to Childhood's End, and a little to the New Wave, but not much to more recent genre developments.[return][return]The mystery was resolved when I realised that ~vQn0