However, if you are reading this blog, my assumption is that you have already come to the dark side, so here. "I believe I will be the Greatest Swordsman in the World."īeyond Redemption is dark-not gory, but I would slide it to the grimdark side of the ruler, borderline horror in places-I want to make that clear from the beginning. "Belief defines reality," said Wichtig, as if explaining to a simpleton. "ĭreams became nightmares, and nightmares became reality, stalking the earth as albtraum, manifestations of man's earliest fears given flesh. That's not to say that it's comedy, but as I read the novel, I couldn't help but envision Fletcher winking at me from behind the scenes and saying, "It's not really real, you know. While Shower of Stones was a serious story that took itself seriously, there is something very tongue-in-cheek about Fletcher's Beyond Redemption.
And yet, in the end, even this they would pollute. Seeking to free themselves, they fled to a world of delusion, a world uncorrupted by jealousies and psychoses. Infected with horror at the cost of their actions, they retreated into dementia. The old gods were broken by wars and plagues of the mind, left reeling like the most bloodied veterans. In Fletcher's world, the mortals seek to create a god. In Jernigan's world, the mortals defied a mad god. Fletcher takes the themes of gods and madness and twists it all around in such a way as to intrigue me. Any similarities between the two novels ends there. I said I wasn't going to start reviewing books again, but I had to talk about this book, because like Zachary Jernigan's Shower of Stones, Michael R.
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