Serpent Mage (Greg Bear)

Serpent Mage (ISBN 0712616721) is a fantasy novel published in 1986 by Greg Bear. , it is the sequel to The Infinity Concerto.

Plot

Michael Perrin is now back home on Earth, living with his parents and continuing his training. Perrin has inherited Arno Waltiri's home and estate. Perrin moves in and begins to go through Waltiri's papers, where he finds a strange news story about bodies that were discovered in a nearby hotel. Perrin is contacted by a musical faculty member from UCLA, Kristine Pendeers. Pendeers is searching for Infinity Concerto - Opus 45 with hopes that it has been left in Waltiri's estate, with the goal of completing Mahler's unfinished Symphony and performing the two pieces together. Perrin trains an apprentice Sidhe, and tries to arbitrate a peace between Sidhe and humans.[1]

gollark: solution: illegalize not halting
gollark: Some other nontrivial machines will also *always* halt.
gollark: Which means it does not apply as generally as you claimed.
gollark: A `return True` machine does absolutely no computation and returns yes/true/1/whatever.
gollark: Well, my `return True` machine can determine whether a `return True` machine can halt.

References
  1. Serpent Mage - Amazon ISBN 0441759106
  • Greg Bear.com


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