Days after finishing Alex Shakar?s ?Luminarium,? I?m still stumbling around the house in a mixture of wonder and awe. His new novel considers how our perceptions of the world are manipulated and controlled. I can?t claim to have understood all of it, but I did find it completely absorbing, and anyone hungry for a deeply philosophical novel that, nonetheless, maintains its humility will find here a story worth wrestling with.
You know who you are: You left ?The Matrix? and ?Inception? dazzled but wishing for a little less computer-generated wizardry and a lot more articulation of the movies? ideas (which also indicates that you should never become a Hollywood producer). In ?Luminarium? those ideas ? about the nature of reality and the interplay of technology and perception ? are explored with great care and maturity.
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