If I Am God

What would human beings do if we discovered the source of ultimate power? When Isaiah Mann, who has pioneered the new field of Ecologic, learns that civilization will soon collapse, he desperately searches for a way to avert disaster. Late one night on a deserted beach, he comes across a dying sperm whale who has journeyed across oceans to speak with him and point the way out of the world's doom. The whale tells Isaiah he dwells at center of a storm about to loose a wave of possibilities, for good and bad, upon the world. But the whale speaks in a language that Isaiah doesn't understand. Cast into the chaos of a future that includes a deadly plague and nuclear war, Isaiah swims with a host of cetaceans that gather off the world's beaches on the summer solstice. He tries to make sense of the orca Arjuna's message to the human race: You must be more! More what, he wonders? He believes that he is forced to use any means at hand to look for human solutions to human-made problems. His quest demands of him great personal transformations and takes him from the cold mathematical models played out on his computers' glowing screens to experiments in the force of consciousness and to the warmth of love for an unusual woman named Mada and her even more amazing child. He learns that he can find the answer to the problems of the world only by journeying deep into the most dangerous of terrifying of places. David Zindell returns to the grand themes and characters of The Orca's Song in this visionary novel of the future of life on earth.