So how did this guy get to be the galaxy's best-selling author? Knock Knock Knockin' on Heaven's Gate Now, I am happy to say, I am a simple pagan" (1.84).īut if for some strange reason you were thinking of those things, then you have a pretty accurate picture of Martin Silenus, the poet of Hyperion, and author of The Dying Earth, which sold over 2.5 billion copies. Or someone who responds to the religion roll call by saying, "'I was baptized a Lutheran I helped create Zen Gnosticism I have been a Catholic, a revelationist, a neo-Marxist, an interface zealot, a Bound Shaker, a satanist, a bishop in the Church of Jake's Nada, and a dues-paying subscriber to the Assured Reincarnation Institute. And you're probably not hearing the boisterous voice of a man whose first line in this book is "as if we f***ing humans were ever motivated by human logic!" (1.40). You're probably not seeing a portly drunk with a face as "mobile and expressive as an Earth primate's" (1.26) and "fingers long enough to be a concert pianist. What do you see and hear? Are you walking through woods on a snowy evening? Visiting a stately pleasure dome in Xanadu? of SilenusĬlose your eyes and think of poetry. Martin Silenus (The Poet) This is the Sound.
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