- Paperback: 458 pages
- Publisher: BASCOM Hill; 1 edition (July 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0980245540
- ISBN-13: 978-0980245547
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 703 g
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The Bird Shaman Is a Winner, Aug 9 2008
By William Unger "omnivore reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Bird Shaman (Paperback)
This is not only a magnificent conclusion to Moffett's Hefn trilogy but is a truly satisfying read in its own own right--that is, if you haven't read the first two books, you can still love this one. As always, Moffett's prose style is of the highest quality, and she combines it with psychological examinations of characters you'll come to care deeply about, although you may not always like or approve of them. Moffet continues her examination of what it might mean should an alien race attempt to force us to save ourselves, and our environment, from ourselves and combines it with a fascinating look at the strengths and weakness of Mormanism in relation to community. The shamanistic rock paintings found throughout the Southwest play a significant role in the novel and add considerably to its depth. This book is science fiction, no question of that, but, unlike so many works in that genre, "The Bird Shaman" is no piece of hackwork escapism. It's a true work of literature that will move you and make you think while giving you hours of enjoyable reading.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Maybe Not Peace, but Harmony, Aug 29 2008
By M. K. Melloy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Bird Shaman (Paperback)
With Book Three of her Holy Ground trilogy, Judith Moffett draws together the universal and the personal in ways seldom seen in literature. The Earth is under the not-entirely-benign rule of aliens who have made it impossible for most humans to reproduce; the aliens want humanity to learn to live in balance with nature, but nature and human nature seem to be innately at odds.
Enter Pam Pruitt, a "Gaian," which is to say, a human who works with the aliens to educate humans and guide them toward a sustainable existence. Even though the Gaians are doing humanity a huge favor in trying to help reclaim the human ability to have children, they are hated as collaborators by a planet full of resentful people.
But Pam seeks to find a way past human prejudice; indeed, past human hard-wiring to survive and prosper by pillaging the world's natural resources. Despite a quarter century of almost zero births, the situation has grown critical: eco-balance has reached a tipping point, and so has the aliens' patience. Humanity is told that as a species they have one final year to shape up, or face near-extinction.
As Pam works furiously to maximize humanity's chances for survival, she finds that part of the key to the salvation of all lies with her own personal salvation: she begins to explore a new, previously unsuspected ability as a latter-day shaman, and to access wisdom, and healing, from what very well may be a higher plane of existence.
This book is rich with literature, archaeology, anthropology, and literate insight. Its message is that harmony and peace are not necessarily one and the same, and that inner struggle can be transformative. For the reader, this novel (which stands alone from the earlier books quite well) is an object lesson in the rewards of a story that doesn't predigest every single point the author wants to make. There's plenty were to enjoy right off, and plenty to mull over for a long time to come.
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Dazzling and insightful, Aug 10 2008
By Vicki Mahaffey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Bird Shaman (Paperback)
The Bird Shaman is not only a mesmerizing story about Mormons, Aliens, time travel, child abuse and ecological danger, it is also a psychological thriller about what lies beneath the layer of consciousness. Its treatment of dreams alone would make it a tour-de-force, but it doesn't stop there: it ranges into science, history, primitive rock art, and religion as well. The characters are so rounded that they come across as people you have known for years, from the former child prodigy who lost her gift, to her grumpy former lover helplessly searching for his dead best friend in his sexual partners, to the beautiful Mormon TV child-star fleeing from a predatory grandfather, and finally to the hairy and implacable aliens who have banned all further reproduction on earth. This is science fiction written by a poet, and it reads like a dream. It is The Time Machine of the twenty-first century, a meditation upon what it actually means to "plant" and tend a future in flesh and on earth. Buy it for everyone you know!
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