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Review Summaries
"TOWER OF GLASS is a novel published in 1970.
Simeon Krug is a successful businessman with an obsession. Since alien audio signals have been picked up, Krug wants to be the first to communicate with the aliens. He starts to build a huge communication tower in the arctic. His employees are androids coming from his own factories. These androids have developed their own religion in which Simeon Krug plays the main role as a God who will make them equal to humans in a near future. But Krug, unaware of that, considers only androids as objects created to help him achieve his goal."
Daniel Staebler, Resident Robert Silverberg Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Book Descript. of chases or violence - 10% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30% Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%
Tone of book
- depressing/sad
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Robots, Computers, VR
Yes
Religious overtones?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 60's-90's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- religious figure
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Earth setting:
- medium future 22-24th century
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- a moderate amount of scientific explanation
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- actual description of sex
- description of breasts
- descript. of private male anat.
- descript. of non-breast female anat.
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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