Her mind was temporarily imprisoned to protect herself from losing her identity to the insanity of torture. So now she likely knows how to do the same to other minds as had been done to her.
She did in fact subsume Culleket, or at least tapped his mind energy and molded it to her own use, so she can do it. She might be a bitter lady too because she didn't have a loving, nurturing childhood, and Amerie had turned her down her love for her religion, so she may be hardened enough to be Fury. She was trapped with Culleket in the prison-without-doors, but who's to say that she wasn't able to use the same escape techniques that she employed during her torture.
To digress about her talent, she was IMHO the MOST powerful mind to be born in the story, greater than that of Marc and Aiken [though we will leave Jack out of this, as he may be another lifeform other than human, a primitive Mental Man if you will].
One could even speculate that Felice could have achieved Mental Man [Woman] state after all those years in the prison-without-doors. Felice has the motive for revenge against MArc Remillard, as during the battle against Aiken Drum she was tricked.
Therefore, if she was Fury, she'd want to take out her revenge against the whole family [as Fury quoth, 'I wannt you all'. Perhaps being in her prison she is unable to exist in the world and needs the help of Hydra who DOES exist here, and thuis Felice as Fury has not materialized to take an active part. Perhaps, having attained Mental Man, she is allowing Marc to go through all the motions to allow history to take place, then as soon as we reach the point where the 2-way gate is opened, Felice as Fury will strike back at Marc!
Perhaps Aiken will come back through the 2-way gate and wreak havoc as well, though I'm not sure how he'd align. Marc DID save Aiken by allowing him to use the cerebrogenic enhancer, but he has not achieved the same mental state that Felice [as Fury] and Marc [as Unifex] has, though with Nodonn and Mercy stuffed in his brain, I would'nt call him ineffective!
Perhaps I am rambling, perhaps there's a little to much speculation here. Maybe Carnbunkle is Jain m Farstrider Adam, if you have anything to add, please do so!!! These opinions are not necessarily those of my employer, this psoting site, nor any other agency than myself, other standard disclaimers apply. She did in fact subsume Culleket, or at least tapped his mind energy and. No, Felice didn't subsume Culleket. They rather formed a Duality.
It is stated somewhere that this is rather different. She was trapped with Culleket in the prison-without-doors, but who's No. Reread where Elizabeth places the Duality within the room-without-doors. It can leave, whenever it wants to. No-one else can enter, either physically or mentally. Felice has the motive for revenge against MArc Remillard, as during the.
Therefore, if she was Fury, she'd : want to take out her revenge against the whole family [as Fury quoth, 'I wannt : you all'. Fury only turns on Jack and Marc after its efforts were thwarted. The Duality is described as a ruby cylinder. The family tree stretched out at the back seems to promise a massacre when a certain year is reached but it hardly seems like most of the deaths are even mentioned.
Even something like Fury seems out of place in all this, the evil phantom lurking in the wings and killing someone occasionally merely to remind everyone that he's still around. Despite the body count and adeptness at hiding, he never feels like a real threat toward the end, just another loose end to be tied up and kept going.
But its the people who stick in the mind, the little interactions between Jack and Marc, Rogi and Dorothea, Dorothea and Jack, Rogi and Denis, any of the Remillards with each other, even the minor characters who populate the story toward the end, they have a close held bond to each other that only comes when they've really been alive, full of love and quarrels and disagreements and loss and joy. In a sense it seems like that May at times is suggesting in her backgrounding of important events, her structure of the series as an infinite closed loop fated to feed on itself, that history isn't perhaps the most important part of events, its merely the sequence that everyone agrees on.
And if history isn't as important as we're supposed to think it is, that leaves only one other aspect to carry us through: the people. I may not remember half the plot of this book a year from now, but I'll remember the people in it, and that's probably the harder accomplishment to pull off.
Nov 03, Shayne Power rated it really liked it. It took me 20 years to get from Intervention to the end of Magnificat. I suppose that is a risk you take when you get involved in a series while it is still being written.
The main surprise in this book I won't give a spoiler here, though it was introduced at the very end of Diamond Mask was a great shock. And knowing why it had to happen was even worse. I'm pleased to say that I didn't feel the need to It took me 20 years to get from Intervention to the end of Magnificat.
I'm pleased to say that I didn't feel the need to cry, but it was probably a close call. I don't think this series is necessarily for everyone, but I loved it. It was exciting and interesting and internally coherent. Now I'd best read the Exiles.
View 2 comments. Jun 21, Joy rated it it was amazing. Fury, the mental monster hiding among the Remillard Clan, has been rousted out and forced to run. His vulnerabilities are dangerously exposed. But from his new identity, his determination remains the same. He will overturn the Galactic Milieu and rule a new empire, one in which every human being is his absolute tool, dependent on him.
He has enticed a new helper, one of the most powerful he could hope for. The only way to surpass the power and control of Marc wearing a CE rig is the concept known as Mental Man. He has forgotten that it was suggested to him in his dreams by Fury. When Mental Man is flatly rejected by the Milieu government, Marc accepts the leadership of the Rebels so that he will be able to command help with his Mental Man scheme.
Few other Rebels care about Mental Man — they just want to be free to develop their own individuality, instead of being guided by aliens. Even Marc Remillard has a vulnerability. He has finally, fatedly, fallen in love. His bride Cyndia is uncomfortable with the Mental Man scheme, but she loves Marc so much she supports him throughout the whole disaster-ridden project — until the final straw.
Uncle Rogi, the obscure elder of the Remillard Clan, is again a pivotal factor behind the scenes. Helped by someone with special sources of knowledge, Rogi is there to support Cyndia as she makes the hardest decision of her life. Rogi is the authority on Fury. Are you confused about the time line? The Saga of Pliocene Exile was written first, and should be read first. Throughout the series, the gradual unveiling of the most influential characters is beautifully judged.
When author Julian May created the Galactic Milieu, she created one of those universes which take on life and exist parallel to our own. The concept of a community of minds with special powers for good answers many of our fondest dreams.
The mental abilities that seem, for most of us, to lie out of our reach are freed and sent into the arena, to aim for the best we can achieve. Every character in the series provides another dimension of the human condition. Most of us will find ourselves described there. Read 4 times A magnificent end to an epic, sweeping saga.
The world is nearly ready for Unity and the Rebel factions are gaining momentum in opposition to the Milieu. Jack the bodiless and Dorothea MacDonald are fighting Jack's brother Marc who takes up the reins of the Rebel faction and supposedly wants Earth to retain its individuality and not join the Milieu in Unity but beneath all the Rebel dogma he is fomenting a secret plan of his own to advance the human race into a society of fully operant and metapys A magnificent end to an epic, sweeping saga.
Jack the bodiless and Dorothea MacDonald are fighting Jack's brother Marc who takes up the reins of the Rebel faction and supposedly wants Earth to retain its individuality and not join the Milieu in Unity but beneath all the Rebel dogma he is fomenting a secret plan of his own to advance the human race into a society of fully operant and metapyschic beings.
This will be brought about by a scheme called Mental man but is this scheme any better for the humans on Earth or is it enslavement by another name? The world is in confusion and the evil of Fury and Hydra is overshadowing everything until the evil being is finally unmasked.
Can Jack and Dorothea with the help of the old narrator Uncle Rogi stop Marc is in his tracks from exchanging one brand of tyranny with another? Well thought out and a great plot that keeps you guessing and unable to put the book down but NOT for the faint hearted as there are eight books in all and its not a novel that you can just pick up and read as its totally useless without the other volumes in the sets.
Feb 11, Andrew Grewcock rated it liked it. After all the build up to the Rebellion, both in this trilogy and the Pliocene Saga, I have to confess to feeling cheated.
I understand that rendering metaphysical concepts in prose is necessarily tricky, but the final result had me flicking pages to check I hadn't accidentally skipped an entire chapter or more. I can't imagine May was writing to a deadline, but considering the attention to detail she has previously lavished and I use the word both pejoratively and admiringly , it's one of th After all the build up to the Rebellion, both in this trilogy and the Pliocene Saga, I have to confess to feeling cheated.
I can't imagine May was writing to a deadline, but considering the attention to detail she has previously lavished and I use the word both pejoratively and admiringly , it's one of the few explanations I can offer.
The only other option is that the dramatic undercutting of this mythic turning point in the whole cosmology was a deliberately flicked finger to the idea of any historical fulcrum being innately dramatic at its origin.
The third and final volume of the Galactic Milieu Trilogy finishes up the epic story begun in the 4 volume Saga of the Pliocene Exiles and continued in the 2 books of Intervention. That's a 9 book series in total. May's writing is consistently great through out this series. None of these are particularly easy reads as May benefited from a vocabulary way beyond the average reader.
Having access to an encyclopedia is well advised if you're going to read these. Some words are so unusual that even Go The third and final volume of the Galactic Milieu Trilogy finishes up the epic story begun in the 4 volume Saga of the Pliocene Exiles and continued in the 2 books of Intervention. Some words are so unusual that even Google couldn't find them right off. Many times I encountered more than one strange word in single sentence. There are a few slow spots but the world building, characters and overall imagination are very high throughout.
The grand scheme story covers a vast variety of subjects and a long timeline, and there is a little bit of something for everyone here. Maybe not so much if you prefer fast moving action packed stories. There are easily identifiable good and bad characters but there are also a couple in the 'grey' category, are they good or bad? It depends on your point of view. The big question in my mind after finishing the series is does it begin at the beginning and end at the end?
Or begin at the end and finish at the beginning? I can say for certainly that the big twist comes in the middle. At the end of the book is a short poem by T. Eliot that sums it up perfectly. And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end. The series is tightly linked to the Saga of the Exiles by the same author.
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Try, also reading them out loud. Sometimes, it helps, I hope you enjoy them. Your friend, Ti-Jean. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. The final word almost?????? How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it?
Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars.
Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows. What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. Copyright C by Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. This quotation appeared at the beginning of Julian May's "The Adversary" The Prince of Aquitaine before his ruined tower: My only star is dead; and now my jewel-studded lute Will only bear the blackened sun of Melancholia. My forehead is red yet with the kiss of the queen; I have dreamed in the grotto where the siren swims and twice I have crossed the Acheron, triumphant And God, Who hears both sun-dried dust and sun, Had pity, whispering to that luckless one, "Sister, in that thou sayest We did not well -- What voices heardst thou when thy petals fell?
For lo, the very gossamers are still. Two hundred years into the future, the great corporations of Earth dominate all life in our Galaxy. But their endless pursuit of wealth and power is about to open the door to a malevolent alien race, intent on engulfing the Commonwealth of Human Worlds.
In Perseus Spur, the disgraced Helly Frost was forced by his father to return home to save the family business empire from hostile take-over by a rapacious rival.
Not only was Galapharma AC a threat to Rampart Starcorp, but also to the entire human race, for it was selling advanced technology to the alien Helly faced murder, mayhem and gun-battles in space to foil Galapharma's first attack against Rampart. In Orion Arm, Helly and his oddly assorted band of companions attempt to capture a crucial witness to the Galapharma conspiracy, who has taken refuge on a hostile planet.
Galapharma's insanely ambitious boss, Alistair Drummond, will stop at nothing in his quest for power, and Helly is marked for death as the two corporations continue to do battle.
Meanwhile, the Haluk follow their own appalling agenda, using human science to mutate their bodies and allow them to infiltrate human society. Helly must find a way to alert the Commonwealth to the Haluk peril, while also saving his family from Drummond's increasingly desperate efforts to annihilate the Rampart Worlds. Helly and his companions attempt to capture a crucial witness to the conspiracy, who has taken refuge on a hostile planet.
May , Julian USA, Here since All her works are situated in the same 'world' - our earth from now till 22nd century and six millions years before The major differences are the development the mind powers, an alien milieu ready to receive the humanity into a mental unity and a one-way gateway to Pliocene Earth. Her first four books, the Saga of the Exiles: The many-coloured land , The Golden Torc , The Non-born King and The Adversary tell the tale of those misfits or adventurers who pass through the one-way gateway into distand past - and meeting aliens on the other side!
The next book, Intervention follows the Remillard family through their history mostly from till early 21nd century as told by Rogatier Remillard alias uncle Rogi.
This book has also appeared in two parts:The Surveillance and The Metaconsert. Her latest works, The Galactic Milieu Trilogy: Jack the Bodiless , Diamond Mask and the upcoming Magnificat continue the story of Intervention - telling about the great personae of the previous books and of the hunt for the Fury.
I Have listed books and given the back-cover texts but I won't give any more about the plots in hopes that you will read the books - and I hope that you do!
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