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The 21st century was drawing to a close, and metapsychic humankind was poised at last to achieve Unity -- to be admitted into the group mind of the already unified alien races of the Galactic Milieu. But a growing corps of rebels was plotting to keep the people of Earth forever separate in the name of human individuality. And the rebels had a secret supporter: Fury, the insane metapsychic creatrue that would stop at nothing to claim humanity for itself. Fury's greatest enemy was the mutant genius Jack the Bodiless, whose power it craved. But Jack would never be a tool for Fury . . .
And so it turned to Dorothea Macdonald, a young woman who had spent a lifetime hiding her towering mindpowers from the best mind readers of the Milieu. But she could not hide them from Fury -- or from Jack. Time and again she rejected their advances, unwilling to be drawn into the maelstrom of galactic politics or megalomaniacal dreams. And in the end, no one -- not Jack, not Fury, not even the Galactic Milieu -- would be a match for the awesome powers of the girl who would come to be called Diamond Mask . . .
- Sales Rank: #253270 in Books
- Published on: 1995-01-30
- Released on: 1995-01-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.09" h x 4.19" w x 6.86" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 448 pages
From Publishers Weekly
In spite of a confusing opening section, those who persevere through Book II of the intricate Galactic Milieu Trilogy will discover an intriguing piece of work. Set in the year 2113 and told through the memoirs of Rogatien Remillard, the story looks back on events that took place half a century earlier, when humanity became part of a vast galactic civilization. Remillard's family, virtually immortal and psychically gifted, has become Earth's most powerful force. On the death of the evil Victor Remillard in 2040, an insane metapsychic creature known as Fury comes into being. Fury uses several corrupt younger Remillards, known collectively as Hydra, as its agent against his Great Enemy, the powerful young mutant Jon Remillard (from Book I, Jack the Bodiless ). Equal in power to both Jon and Fury is the young Dorothea Macdonald, who comes to be known as Diamond Mask. Will she join forces with Jon to oppose Fury, or will that frightful entity use her for its own purposes? May holds out the promise of answers in the trilogy's concluding volume, Magnificat. Meanwhile, readers should be forewarned not to peek at the final page here, where the Fury's secret is revealed. Then again, maybe it isn't.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Set in the years between humanity's acceptance into the "galactic milieu" and its achievement of telepathic "unity" with other metapsychic races, this sequel to Jack the Bodiless ( LJ 12/91) follows the early life of Dorothea Macdonald, a young woman striving to deny her formidable mental powers yet destined to become one of the world's most powerful minds. Dorothea's fate links her with the dynastic Remillard family and the psychopathic killer known only as "Fury," forcing her to accept the keys that will unlock her talents. The author of the "Pliocene Saga" maintains a personal focus on her luminary characters, opening their private lives to intense scrutiny while at the same time expanding the boundaries of an imaginative future world. Rich in intrigue and vibrating with creative energy, this is a superb addition to sf collections.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
This is the second book in May's Galactic Milieu trilogy that began with Jack the Bodiless (1991) and, when completed, will constitute a full-scale prequel to her immensely popular Saga of Pliocene Exile. The central figure here is the potently but secretly metapsychic woman Dorotea, who comes to be known as Diamond Mask. She becomes the object of competition between Jack the Bodiless and the madman Fury, and in the course of surviving their battle, she realizes her own extraordinary powers. May is definitely a writer of the throw-in-everything-by-the-double-handful school, which occasionally makes for soggy pacing. But it also makes for an enormous cast of vivid characters and a world with an admirably lived-in quality, complete with the small-group politics of the metapsychics and their alien allies. May has largely earned her impressive following, which makes this book a virtually mandatory acquisition. Roland Green
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A romantic comedy where everyone knew what everyone else was thinking probably wouldn't involve romance or comedy
By Michael Battaglia
There are times when its clear that May is having a blast writing this series and there are moments when, having come up with a complicated future history, she looks at it with vaguely veiled exasperation and says, "Geez, now I have to write all this out?"
One of the ways she seems to be keeping the series fresh for herself is by introducing new characters (or fleshing out ones that were only briefly mentioned earlier) and playing those new characters off the established characters to see what happens. In fact, she's so good at defining her characters and the relationships between them that sometimes she almost forgets that there's supposed to be a plot going on in the background.
Here, we start to accelerate forward in time a little bit faster as she introduces us to Scottish lass Dorothea Macdonald, who figures out very early on that she has vast mental powers and also decides she wants as little to do with them as possible, causing her to basically hide them and pretend to be normal, difficult to do when you learn how to read minds and can hear what everyone thinks about you. She's fated to become the formidable Diamond Mask (which sounds like those ladies who are always trying to seduce and/or kill James Bond) and fall in love with the presumably hard to fall in love with Jack the Bodiless, who has now grown into a teenager, although given that he exists as a floating disembodied brain that keeps forming new bodies around himself, you can be forgiven if its hard to tell how old he is. But at least he doesn't have to worry about acne. And since she's destined to fall in love with him, she does the sensible thing and hates him the first time she even hears about him. What's a detached cerebrum that only wants emotional support to do?
Much of the book is the gradual development of Dorothea from a young lady of about five to what she eventually becomes, with the rest of the subplots sort of dancing around that central focus. Its interesting to read, mostly because of May's gifts with characterization, but its becoming clear around this point that May isn't so interested in narrative drive as much as simply depicting the human side of the events that make it to the highlights in her history. Its a ground level view of the extraordinary but its like exploring George Washington's life by using a calendar. Sometimes you just want to skip to the good stuff.
To that end the main concerns from the first book are still in play. Humanity is still trying to come to grips with the fact that the Galactic Milieu is about to enfold them into the collective with something called Unity, which chunks of people aren't exactly keen on and in fact some of them are so not-keen on it that they're secretly banding together to form a rebel group that seems to be leaning toward armed insurrection but isn't quite clear. To be honest, the rebel portions of the series have always been the weakest parts for me. I understand the need to move deliberately when you're attempting to separate yourself from a whole slew of alien races that are potentially more powerful than you are, but after two solid books they're still gathering in rooms debating who they should recruit and agreeing that they should do something soon about this. Out of all the subplots this one feels the most like May is marking time until we get to the foretold Metaphysical Rebellion that Marc is apparently supposed to lead, so she has to keep checking in on it to remind us that she hasn't forgotten about it but clearly nothing is going to happen until the third book. The concept of the rebellion itself is interesting in that May has a number of people who should be protagonists talking frankly about overthrowing the aliens, who have so far been nothing but nice, giving the plot a bit of a subtle xenophobic streak that the book intelligently doesn't call attention to, letting you decide for yourself whether these people are doing it for a good cause or simply out of a misplaced racism.
The other big plot is the mystery of who Fury is as he and what's left of Hydra continue to randomly murder their way across the landscape. With the collective of Hydra revealed and gone into hiding what's really left is wondering which of the Remillards is unwittingly harboring Fury (since it becomes clear fairly early that he's a manifestation of a split personality) . . . something that the book takes a stab at revealing at the very end although that by that point the number of possibilities are fairly limited unless you figure she's going to stick Fury in someone random. Fury occupies a bit of a strange place in the series, as a definite antagonist he's the boogeyman that everyone is afraid of even if his impact seems to be limited to a leeriness about his future plans and the tragedies he leaves in his wake. And while he's clear he has a plan its not totally clear what that plan is, unless you want to argue that he's acting like the Joker would without Batman, sowing chaos constantly without any end except pure destruction. With the mystery of who Hydra is settled it saps the concept of some of its power since it becomes a crazy smart person talking to other crazy people who are in its thrall. Their tendency to strike without warning even while basically hiding in plain sight gives the book an off kilter edge at times and while their eventual confrontation with Dorothea almost pushes the book toward a superhero comic, it is at least a dramatic high point.
Which is good, because for the most part May is clearly more concerned with the characters as people instead of historical figures and you can nearly sense her wishing that she hadn't set out the fates for the more prominent characters already so it would give her a chance to play with them more. Ol' Bodiless Jack himself remains the most fascinating character in the crew, clearly the most powerful and most idiosyncratic, he has a boundless curiosity that belies the tragedy of his life. He remains steadfastly good hearted and yet unpredictable, human but only barely so at times. The scenes with him make the book come a bit more alive, especially as the narrative skips forward in time (mostly to give Dorothea a chance to get older and catch up with everyone else) and you can see his development. He remains the most vibrant and the eventual scenes with Diamond Mask show you why he might frighten her and why she might also warm up to him later (two of the best scenes in the book are when they're just sitting talking to each other). When she focuses on the characters, even when their traits might become tiresome (despite Rogi being the narrator, he seems to be pushed more and more to the side, set enough in his ways between his functional alcoholism and unwillingness to let anyone into his head that there seems to be nowhere for him to go) the story shines in their interactions, giving the book a family feel, if everyone in your family was a hundred years old.
It's that ability to create characters with problematic flaws that acts as the book's engine even when its clear that the plot is something that will be dealt with when the book darn well feels like it (that does mean some characterizations get short shrift, notably Marc's Anakin Skywalker like transformation into what will eventually be the leader of the rebellion). Some of this is middle child syndrome, having given us the premise in the first book and unable to give us any dramatic climaxes until the last book she only has to steady the course and get everyone in position. That she does so by centering it around the eventual romance of a reluctant telepath and a boy without a body at least shows some lateral thinking. If she can't juggle all the pieces to give everything the time it deserves it does at least prove that some writing talent and enough imaginative balls in the air can keep you reading at least long enough to want to see how it all ends.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Great book, bogus (publisher) marketing strategy
By growupalready
I love this series of books, and when I got my Kindle, I was looking forward to re-reading them on the new toy. But I cannot understand why the publisher is releasing the 1st book (Jack the Bodiless) after books 2 & 3, and why books 1 & 3 are $7 but book 2 is $18. That's just absurd. For a book that is over 15 years old, why do they find it necessary to rip off faithful readers? Also, why won't they make Intervention available? Publishers attitudes about e-book marketing are incomprehensible to me. I know, I'm just whining. But really!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A Diamond Whose Size Is Its Only Flaw
By Amanda M. Hayes
It was Julian May's novels of the Pliocene Exile that first introduced me to her concepts of metapsychic powers and the Galactic Milieu. I enjoyed them very much--but hesitated for some time before checking out any of the prequels of the Galactic Milieu Trilogy; I doubted they could be nearly as good as the others, lacking the hilarious antics of Aiken Drum. And now I must confess to being a convert! Aiken or no Aiken, _Diamond Mask_ and its predecessor won me over thoroughly.
Imagine it: in the not-too-distant future, humankind has learned that there really *is* life out there; moreover, that life down *here* is richer than was once thought. Psychic gifts have finally been recognized, and are being trained to their highest potential. New technology has made nearly everything we have today obsolete, and death has almost been conquered thanks to such miracles as genetic medicine and rejuvenation tanks. However, some things never change... and the tendency of mankind to get into messes is one of them. These ideas appeared in _Jack the Bodiless_, and continue to be brought to life by May's grand talent in this sequel.
_Diamond Mask_ doesn't only have an intriguing premise and fabulous writing; it is also possessed of a plotline that's deliciously chilling without being frightening enough to give one nightmares. The metapsychic monsters Fury and Hydra introduced in _Jack the Bodiless_ are still on the loose and as horrifying in their power--and their mystery--as ever, tangling now with entirely new characters. Enter Dorothea Macdonald, a lady as interesting in her own right as any Remillard and another legend introduced the Saga of the Pliocene Exile. While I can't say the Blessed Illusio was quite as I imagined her, it was certainly a pleasure to learn her story. I look forward to its continuation in _Magnificat_.
If the book has a flaw, it's that it's too short: more information about Dorothea's early life would have been welcome; likewise, I wouldn't have minded a bit more insight into Jack and Marc's working relationship... or the lives of the various Remillards... or--well, all right, so it would have been nice to get more detail on any number of things. Still, _Diamond Mask_ is a delightful page-turner that I'd thoroughly recommend to series fans and those new to May's Milieu (though the latter may wish to read _Jack the Bodiless_ first) alike.
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