I’d either forgotten, or I’d never quite realised, that End of Days (which I read last year, I think) is preceded by this book. I will have to, at some future date, re-read the two in the correct order. However, it didn’t matter.So, forgetting End of Days for a while, I’ll consider this book only:We’re about a hundred years in the future (the dates are given somewhere, but I didn’t keep them in mind), and several billion of the earth’s population have uploaded themselves into the Bin. The Bin is a virtual world where there is no crime and no death. People choose the age they want to be, design their houses, and then [tend to] live their lives pretty much the way they always did.Nemo (named after Captain Nemo from Ten Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, rather than the fish (who was also named after Captain Nemo from Ten Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), has a great deal of discomfort about the Bin, and even more resentment of his parents who chose to go there when he was only 11 years old. They left him with a ‘caretaker’, Lawrence, who is a Construct. Constructs are genetically engineered people, tweaked so that they didn’t look human (and thereby make their ‘owners’ feel guilty about enslaving people), and with the self-consciousnesses of 3 or 4 different previously alive people. Nemo has visited them twice a year since, each time trying his utmost to make them feel bad about leaving him.This story begins when Nemo is turning twenty-one. He visits his parents in the Bin and meets Justine. It’s love at first sight for both of them. But then, as in all good romances, things go wrong. First, Justine is having peculiar dreams where she is someone else. Then Nemo is approached (back in the Real world) by a crazed fundamentalist called Gabriel, who wants him to upload a virus with him into the Bin.I really did shorten my available sleeping hours for this book. I have enjoyed each one of Danvers’ books. I find he has just the right mixture of unusual characters alongside the ‘normal’, and a storyline with predictable pathways alongside the unexpected. They’re not challenging, yet make for a compelling light read. Keep writing, Dennis!
I've always been intrigued by the idea of immortality. Who wants to grow old and die? Therefore I was impressed by the fact that, in Circuit of Heaven, Mr. Danvers succeeds in portraying a vision of immortality that is downright repulsive.In this future world, humanity has largely downloaded itself to a virtual reality, a Matrix-like cybernetic environment called "the Bin," where everyone can live forever. The protagonist, Nemo, is a young man who rejects society's move to the Bin, and prefers t
What do You think about Circuit Of Heaven (1999)?
This is a science fiction novel with a love story. Two concepts are explored: the virtual world and constructs which are living being made up of fragments of memories and personalities of a few human beings.Nemo lives in the real world while his parent and most of the population of earth is now living in the "Bin", a virtual world where people have downloaded themselves for eternity. The real world is harsh but Nemo does not want to go to the virtual world as it does not seem real to him. However meeting a woman on the other side is about to change all that or will it? You have to read the book to know the answer.
—Sanuk
