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Title:
Way-farer
Series: Kensho #1
Author:
Dennis Schmidt
Rating: 2.5 of 5 Stars
Genre:
SFF
Pages: 170
Words:
67K
Publish: 1978
This
is one of those books I read as a teen, then a 20something, then a
30something now as a 40something. I loved this book, I loved it a
lot. This time, not so much. This is a much younger man’s book and
it is time for me to acknowledge that fact.
I desperately wanted to give this 5stars, like all my previous times but I’m honest enough with myself to know I can’t. This is a vanity project by the author about Zen Buddhism wrapped inside a science fiction story that is actually a swords and sorcery story.
Ahhhh, another youthful book that I’ve finally outgrown. That’s not a good or bad thing, it just is. While that makes a part of me sad, another part acknowledges that is just how it is, like aching joints and reduced energy levels. Well, if I managed to push off growing up for 48 years, I’d say that was a good run.
Ok cranky old man stage, here I come!!!
★★✬☆☆
From the Publisher
According to every reading it was a paradise planet—a warm and fecund world far more desirable than the teeming, polluted warrens of the planet-city that Earth had become. Yet when the last of the one-way transports had landed its cargo of Pilgrims, the men of Earth were to learn of a danger that no machine could detect, and against which no machine could defend them—the Mushin, mental entities that stimulate and amplify the dark streak of violence that lies near the core of every human being.Seven generations would pass before a descendant of the scattered remnant of the original colonists would be ready to face the power of the Mushin. But first he would have to learn to wield the weapon that is no weapon—and that only where there is no Will, is there a Way…His name is Jerome. This is his story. He is the WAY-FARER.
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