GRGR(8): Nuclear light

[David Casseres]

Monte Davis sez

>And what a peculiarly un-final end. GR embodies and foreshadows so many 
>ironies...

...[much good stuff deleted here]

>We knew there was *something* strange, but it wasn't until GR that someone 
>made artistic if not historical sense of it.

Thanks for a very good post, and it reminds me to recommend another novel 
about that moment in history, _Stallion Gate_ by the underrated Martin 
Cruz Smith.  He has a certain genius for endings, and this novel about 
the Trinity A-bomb test ends with the main character (a Navajo working as 
a security officer at Los Alamos) running as fast as he can through the 
pre-dawn dark, away from the tower with the Bomb on top of it, and the 
last sentence gives us the sight of his elongated shadow suddenly 
appearing on the ground in front of him.


Cheers,
David