a turning point figure for Dominic Flandry (see Djana's Curse);
yet another Catholic in the Technic History.
When Flandry and Djana are in danger, she recites the Catholic prayer, the Hail Mary;
influenced by Ydwyr the Seeker, she imagines a Merseian Christ (see also Life Details);
her psychic power, to influence the actions of other conscious beings, is focused through prayer. See here.
Maybe we should have met Djana again - and also the conscious computer on Wayland, which Flandry compares to the Creator that Djana believes in?
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Darn! I had forgotten about Djana being a Catholic. Her use of the Ave Maria clinches that. We even see mention of a presumably Catholic bishop in "Outpost of Empire."
I agree Djana was a turning point in Flandry's life. But some points to keep in mind is that for a very long time he seems to have FORGOTTEN about her. We only see Djana alluded once more, in A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS, when Flandry told Kossara how a woman who had been angry at him "wished" he would never find or stay with the woman he truly wanted. But we also see Flandry expressing skepticism of that kind of "wishing" having any effect on him.
Sean
Kaor, Paul!
I forgot to add that I too would have liked to have seen the Wayland AI again. My only real criticism of A CIRCUS OF HELLS being that we saw too little of that conscious level computer.
Altho it was mentioned that conscious level computers were mostly used in former times as aids in exploration, they still had useful functions. Such as for managing and operating industrial and mining systems on planets unsuitable for humans or only marginally so for them (such as Satan and Mimir). And such computers were probably used on Terra and major planets of the Empire to help keep files, records, archives, data banks, etc., in order.
Sean
Correction, I meant WAYLAND, not Mimir, was only marginally habitable, for short periods, by humans.
Sean
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