Lack of availablility can be the making of a book. This one has probably always been more talked about than read, and its diffusion among general readers may prove the death-blow to its reputation. It is the kind of rambling fantasy, rich in abiguous symbolism, which slightly repels the many who like novels to make solid sense, and violently attracts the few who enjoy dredging them for deep, dark, mysterious secrets about Life and the Universe...This is not science-fiction, which is a realistic genre. It is in intention, perhaps, a religious allegory....[S]uch writing does well to rest upon some great public myth....Without such underpinning it will fall, as here, into whimsy, into mere dream. And other people's dreams are not interesting. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.