Master Siger's Dream

master siger's dream

ISBN 9780982354278

Just how many great lays, fast cars, and rounds on the Papal Back Nine can a thirteenth-century priest handle? Siger of Brabant, heretic, master of the Impossibilia, one of the most profound thinkers of any age, is on the run. He has thought what cannot be: What if the pagan Aristotle was right? What if Islamic philosophers have a point? What if God really does throw dice? DeAnnuntis has created his own riveting and wickedly anachronistic impossibilium into which Siger is forced to take flight. Like a noir detective trying to solve the case of his own murder, Siger must confront the deepest ramifications of the ideas he has set loose: What if there was no God, but the dice were still being thrown? What if Aristotle was wrong, but his gods were right? What if "then" was always "now."

—Stephen Shepherd, medievalist, editor of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, William Langland's Piers Plowman, and the recently discovered manuscript of Turpine's Story.