Carter, Raphael

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The Fortunate Fall
Carter Raphael
Manufacturer: TOR
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Mundane Astrology, The Astrology of Nations and States

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Mundane Astrology

Mundane Astrology, The Astrology of Nations and States
H. S. Green , Raphael , and C. E. O. Carter
Manufacturer: Astrology Classics
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Will there be peace? Will there be war? Find out with Mundane Astrology.

Here, in one volume, are three classic books on mundane astrology, by H.S. Green, Raphael & C.E.O. Carter.

H.S. Green organizes his book by planet. He gives planet-to-planet aspects & what planets mean in mundane houses.

Raphael's book does the reverse. He works house-to-house, defining planets along the way. He describes eclipses by decanate, while Green describes them by house, two priceless views in two complimentary books.

Charles Carter, writing in light of WWII, reexamines the entire topic. He stresses the importance of accurate data, national horoscopes, historical cycles, stations, ingresses, inceptionals, lunations & more.

All three authors give astrological rulerships for some countries & cities. These are centuries old & are weighted to England & Europe. Of the three, Carter's are the most up-to-date.

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Mundane Astrology.......2005-08-17

It could be argued that the three books combined in this volume stands as the 'Old Testament' of moderne mundane astrology. Quite indespensable for the serious student.

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So little. but so good....
Very disappointing
Brilliant Post-Cyberbunk Debut Novel
A Remarkable Debut
Brilliant post-cyberpunk

The Fortunate Fall
Raphael Carter
Manufacturer: Forge
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 031286034X

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In 23rd-century Russia, where the "Net" is at once a source of freedom and a means of control, Maya Andreyeva is the perfect reporter. The chips hardwired into her brain allow her to detail not only what she sees but what she hears, tastes, smells, and feels, all in resonant virtual reality. When clues turn up pointing to a massacre and a cover-up, Maya, the ultimate journalist, is compelled find the truth. Along the way she discovers answers not only to the puzzle she has set out to solve, but to secrets about her own life. At the same time, author Raphael Carter provides a compelling and chilling story that also raises serious questions about such issues as homophobia and censorship.

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So little. but so good...........2002-05-07

Raphael Carter shows incredible potential in his debut novel, published in 1996, but where is the sequel or prequel!

An enormous dark world springs into life on the pages of "The Fortunate Fall", leaving this reader wanting much more, I first read this book (not much more then a novellete) 3 - 4 years ago, and like all great sci-fi does, it stuck with me, but after re-reading, and finding it just as good (I think the third time) as the 1st, I was much disappointed to find that there is no follow up work.

I too felt that the geekness of this dark and forbidding place was much better technically then Gibson, but then again Gibson himself has stated often that he was not much into tech when wrote his seminal work Neourmancer. I especiallly like the plugs and sockets described in this book, and you need no go further then recent headlines news (May, 2002) describing how rats brains have been hardwired (cabled!) in experiments aimed at creating remote "camera's" how prophetic can you be?

I love grand epics, like Julian Mays classic series, but this was is a great little book.

Very disappointing.......2001-06-19

I agree with one of the other reviewers 'ambivalent' is what I feel about this book. I was left confused and wanting to know (and understand) more about the background/social/political/cultural aspects of Earth in the 23rd century. I felt like I was reading a sequel and I was just supposed to know all about it already.

There's really no action and the last 30-40 pages are a long dialogue explaining the motives of all the characters and the basic plot. Then it cuts off dramatically with not even an epilogue.

It was interesting at times, the writing was good and the plot fairly original but it just didn't do anything for me.

Brilliant Post-Cyberbunk Debut Novel.......2000-08-08

This is really, really, good. Set in the 23rd century, the Russian narrator (Maya) is a telepresence "camera": she "witnesses" news events, or anything which could be a story, and her total impressions (sensorium, plus memories: the latter including implanted memories of research on the subject) are transmitted over the net to her audience, although the output is "screened" by another individual (a "screener") who is totally linked with the camera, and who apparently filters sensitive or personal material, and makes sure that the sensorium output comes through OK (red looks red, stuff like that). We slowly learn that Maya has a "past" which she cannot remember, because memories of it have been suppressed, and that that past is related to her love life. We also learn that her world has emerged in recent decades from the domination of a group called the Guardians, and that it is now bifurcated into the technologically advanced, but isolated, African continent, and to something called the Fusion of Historical Nations, which seems to be a shaky reestablishment of roughly 20th century political boundaries.

Maya's latest story is about some of the key events in the liberation of Russia from the Guardians. As she begins her story, her old screener quits and she gets a new one. This new screener is revealed to have quite remarkable abilities, and also seems to quickly fall in love with Maya, which is difficult for Maya to handle because her sexual emotions are suppressed. Maya and Keishi (the new screener) begin to investigate some details of the defeat of the Guardians, details which are for some reason potentially embarrassing to the "new world order". Staying one step ahead of the law, Maya travels across Russia and through the net in search of an interview with a man who has some secrets about the Guardians, their successors, and the nature of the world and the net.

Carter pulls off a number of exciting, brilliant things. The nature of this new world and its history are carefully and slowly revealed, along with Maya's own past, and the resolution is well integrated, the tragic ending is both a surprise and not a surprise, and is "earned".

The technological and social details of life in the FHN are wonderfully well realized. In many ways, this book is reminiscent of Bruce Sterling in the way future tech and future society are densely integrated with the narrative, and seem so possible. The terminology (Postcops, Weavers, greyspace, etc.) is intriguing, and is introduced in such a way as to seem natural (there are very few lectures), but also be part of the mysteries which are slowly revealed. The realization of the how "mindlink" technology might really affect the world, and also the images of cyberspace, are believable and original.

The prose is very good, mostly clean and elegant, not showy, but occasionally erupting in apt and memorable images. In addition, the story has true momentum: it makes you want to keep reading. This is a gift that not all good writers have, and it's a great plus.

The book falls slightly short in a couple of areas (mere quibbles, really). Much of the second half of the book is a long narrative by the interview subject, and this method of telling the story seemed to me to create a bit of disconnectness. The story really has two protagonists, Maya and Voskrosenye (the interviewee), and their stories are well integrated, but still there is a slight slackening in that the two stories (Maya's personal one, and the story of the nature of Maya's world, which is mostly told through Voskrosenye) don't quite end in synch. Also, the Guardians are a bit stock as villains (though to be sure they are not the only villains). And I thought Maya's original crime was, well, not likely to be such a crime in the 23rd century. But I could be wrong about that.

This book really provokes thought. One virtue is that much is implied and never told, and we have a sense of a whole fascinating underpinning to this world (such as what the African culture is really like) which is hinted at but not explained. Also, the main themes of guilt and personal responsibility are well handled, and there is some very good stuff about the nature of love, and the nature of love on the net, or in Cyberspace, or whatever.

A Remarkable Debut.......2000-02-27

I don't think I've seen a first novel written with this sort of authority in the past 10 years. Mr. Carter seems to have mastered the art of wrapping hypothetical technology into storytelling without ever having done it before.

Still, it's not a perfect book. The price is obscene for a paperback. The writer has perhaps too much confidence in himself, and in the reader's willingness to trust him for some tens of pages while very little happens, although that very little happens very entertainingly.

I foresee too possible pals for Mr. Carter: either he will be one of the most promising writers to emerge from the last decade, or he will listen to hard to the plaudits of the letter writing who do not care whether a story is told as long as it is told with the sort of sentence-by sentence-artistry that Mr. Carter appears to have been born having mastered.

Brilliant post-cyberpunk.......1999-11-24

The Fortunate Fall is almost, but not quite, cyberpunk. It's got the nifty technologies, sure; but in place of cyberpunk's shallow, tragically hip veneer, Fall gives us three dimensional characters and emotional depth. The setting is a near future that is both plausible and startlingly different than anything I've seen before; the characters are superbly well-drawn; and the plot is unpredictable and engaging. The Fortunate Fall is an excellent debut novel, and I look forward to Carter's future output.

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The Fortunate Fall
Raphael Carter
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RAZ22E

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The Fortunate Fall
Raphael Carter
Manufacturer: New York TOR 1996.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q6T05O

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The Fortunate Fall
Raphael Carter
Manufacturer: Tor Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTZ2CS

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