The Tower of Babel is an excellent foray into a science fiction world layered with nuanced real-world analogues and social criticisms that reveal an uncommon depth of perception and reflection that the author possesses.
The Tower of Babel (Vaulan Cycle)
by G. T. Anders
4.4 stars - 12 reviews
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The Tower of Babel is part political thriller, part apocrypha, and part Little Shop of Horrors—though it ain’t funny at all.
Sculptor
Austin Feckidee discovers strange abilities in himself when under the
influence of a mysterious plant. A group of anarcho-primitivists seeks
to subvert the construction of a gigantic skyscraper called The Tower of
Babel.
These two paths climb towards unstoppable collision.
Austin
had plenty of reason to run from his past. Three years ago, he and an
anarchist secret society failed utterly in an attempt to destroy a
titanic skyscraper called the Tower of Babel. But he’s put all that
behind him. Really, he has. Still, establishing himself as a sculptor
would be a hell of a lot easier if he hadn’t lost his groove—and if he
hadn’t gotten a letter from Stella, his old never-quite-flame and the
ringleader of the anarchist operation. Stella dares to ask him to come
back and try it all again. Her logic is simple: an otherworldly plant
once thought capable of destroying steel has finally flowered after
twenty years of dormancy in her greenhouse. She wants to find out why.
The answer may destroy Austin—or it may just show him who he really is.
One Reviewer Notes:
...[T]his is a book with a plot that is fulfilled in all the literary ways. It has drama and great suspense, and it's unique. The words of the hero Austin are often more poetic than prose. G.T Anders has experimented with new ideas with prose, and they work, they aren't intrusive, they build this fantastic, sad world. There are monsters and mysteries and bad baddies and a narrative that spoon feeds you nothing. No long-winded explanations, you have to work at it like the characters but you are carried along. The ending is beautiful in it's technique and the final divine love that comes through.
Anna R
About the Author
G. T. Anders, who goes by George Anderson at work, home, and among friends and family, has been writing since the age of learning-to-write. From the earliest picture-books about a talking can through novellas about sparrows to a militaristic space opera, his projects have led him down one rabbit trail after another, constantly approximating but never quite reaching the ideal of Great Novel that began to form in his young brain when he first saw chapter headings and body copy on a printed page.
The Tower of Babel is another such excursion but claims nothing of that ideal. If you enjoy it, if it makes you question your use of gasoline or Facebook or anything else that is machine, then it has succeeded.
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